Pamela

See also: Pamela (homonymy)

PAMELA ( Payload for AntiMatter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics ) is an observatory in orbit intended to determine the characteristics of the black Matière.

The equipment of experiment was launched on June 15th 2006 by a Russian rocket on board a satellite Resurs DK1. It will be the most complex detector of particles ever launched in space since it will be able to detect and measure with an exceptional precision the load, the mass and the spectrum of energy of the cosmic particles which will run up against its detector.

The objective is to study the cosmic particles, their spectrum, their origin, the presence of antiparticles, and the possible presence of black Matière ( cold dark matter ) as causes some of these particles.

See too

Related article

  • WHIM, preceding similar experiment launched in stratospheric balloon.
  • NINA, preceding similar experiment launched in stratospheric balloon.

External bonds

  • Pamela experiment
  • Pamela group At KTH

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