PAMELA – a satellite experiment searching for dark matter with cosmic ray antiparticles Mark Pearce KTH, Department of Physics, Stockholm, Sweden For the.

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PAMELA – a satellite experiment searching for dark matter with cosmic ray antiparticles Mark Pearce KTH, Department of Physics, Stockholm, Sweden For the PAMELA Collaboration ‘The Hunt for Dark Matter’ – Fermilab,

Overview Indirect searches for dark matter with antiparticles (Aldo Morselli’s talk this morning) Description of PAMELA instrument and performance Status since launch (15th June 2006) A brief look at flight data –Orbital environment –Antiparticle identification

PAMELA Collaboration BariFlorenceFrascati Italy: TriesteNaplesRome CNR, Florence Moscow St. Petersburg Russia: Germany: Siegen Sweden: KTH, Stockholm

PAMELA performance Energy range Particles/3 years Antiproton flux 80 MeV GeV >3x10 4 Positron flux50 MeV – 270 GeV>3x10 5 Electron flux up to 400 GeV6x10 6 Proton flux up to 700 GeV3x10 8 Electron/positron fluxup to 2 TeV (from calorimeter) Light nuclei (up to Z=6) up to 200 GeV/n He/Be/C:4 10 7/4/5 Antinuclei search Sensitivity of 3x10 -8 in He-bar/He  Unprecedented statistics and new energy range for cosmic ray physics  e.g. contemporary antiproton & positron energy, E max  40 GeV  Simultaneous measurements of many species – constrain secondary production models 1 HEAT-PBAR flight ~ 22.4 days PAMELA data 1 CAPRICE98 flight ~ 3.9 days PAMELA data

Antiprotons Secondary production (upper and lower limits) Simon et al. ApJ 499 (1998) 250. Secondary production (CAPRICE94-based) Bergström et al. ApJ 526 (1999) 215 Primary production from  annhilation (m(  ) = 964 GeV) Secondary production ‘C94 model’ + primary  distortion PAMELA Ullio : astro-ph/ AMS-01: space shuttle, 1998

Positrons Secondary production ‘Leaky box model’ R. Protheroe, ApJ 254 (1982) 391. Secondary production ‘Moskalenko + Strong model’ without reacceleration. ApJ 493 (1998) 694. Primary production from  annhilation (m(  ) = 336 GeV) Secondary production ‘M+S model’ + primary  distortion PAMELA Baltz + Edsjö, Phys Rev D59 (1999)

Sign of charge, rigidity, dE/dx Electron energy, dE/dx, lepton-hadron separation e-e- p - e+e+ p (He...) Trigger, ToF, dE/dx Anticoincidence system reduces background. + - NB: e + /p: 10 3 (1 GeV) → (10 GeV) p’/e - : (1 GeV) → <10 2 (10 GeV)

Characteristics: 5 modules of permanent magnet (Nd-B-Fe alloy) in aluminum mechanics Cavity dimensions (162 x 132 x 445) cm 3  GF ~ 21.5 cm 2 sr Magnetic shields 5mm-step field-map on ground: – B=0.43 T (average along axis), – B=0.48 T The magnet

Main tasks: Rigidity measurement Sign of electric charge dE/dx (ionisation loss) Characteristics: 6 planes double-sided (x&y view) microstrip Si sensors channels Dynamic range: 10 MIP Performance: Spatial resolution: ~3  m (bending view) MDR ~1 TV/c (from test beam data) The tracking system

Main tasks: lepton/hadron discrimination e +/- energy measurement Characteristics: 44 Si layers (X/Y) + 22 W planes 16.3 X o / 0.6 L 4224 channels Dynamic range: 1400 mip Self-trigger mode (> 300 GeV; GF~600 cm 2 sr) Performance: p/e + selection efficiency ~ 90% p rejection factor ~10 6 e rejection factor > 10 4 Energy resolution 200 GeV The electromagnetic calorimeter

Main tasks: First-level trigger Albedo rejection dE/dx (ionisation losses) Time of flight particle identification (<1GeV/c) Characteristics: 3 double-layer scintillator paddles X/Y segmentation Total: 48 Channels Performance:  (paddle) ~ 110ps  (ToF) ~ 330ps (for MIPs) The time-of-flight system

Main tasks: Rejection of events with particles interacting with the apparatus (off-line and second-level trigger ) Characteristics: Plastic scintillator paddles, 8mm thick 4 upper (CARD), 1 top (CAT), 4 side (CAS) Performance: MIP efficiency > 99.9% The anticounter shields

Neutron detector Main tasks: e/h discrimination at high-energy Characteristics: 36 3 He counters: 3 He(n,p)T  Ep=780 keV 1cm thick polyethylene moderators n collected within 200  s time-window Shower-tail catcher Main tasks: Neutron Detector trigger Characteristics: 1 plastic scintillator paddle, 1 cm thick

Resurs-DK1 Satellite Mass: 6.7 tonnes Height: 7.4 m Solar array area: 36 m 2 Main task: multi-spectral remote sensing of earth’s surface Built by TsSKB Progress in Samara (Russia) Active life >3 years Data transmitted to ground via radio downlink PAMELA mounted inside a pressurized container

T – 1 day

Launch: 15 th June 2006, Baikonur

Quasi-polar (70.0°) Elliptical (350 km km) PAMELA traverses the South Atlantic Anomaly At the South Pole PAMELA crosses the outer (electron) Van Allen belt Data downlinked to Moscow. ~15 GByte per day (2-3 sessions)    km  km SAA Orbit characteristics

PAMELA milestones Launch from Baikonur: June 15 th ‘First light’: June 21 st 2006, 0300 UTC. Detectors operated as expected after launch Tested different trigger and hardware configurations Commissioning phase ended successfully on July 11 th 2006 PAMELA in continuous data-taking mode since then As of ~now: –PAMELA has acquired data for ~220 days –4 TB of raw data downlinked –~480 million triggers recorded

Albedo (no electrons) SAA galactic sub-cutoff Latitude -vs- beta (Z=1) Preliminary !!! (v / c) Time-of-flight Equator North pole South pole

18 GV non-interacting anti-proton

11.6 GV interacting anti-proton

1.09 GV positron

32.3 GV positron

e-e- (e + ) p-bar p Preliminary !!! Antiparticle selection [Momentum (GeV) / charge (e)]

Example calorimeter selection criteria: Total energy release Longitudinal and lateral shower development Shower topology … e-e- e+e+ e-e- p-bar (non int.) p (non int.) p (int.) Positron selection in calorimeter (e + ) Fraction of charge released along the calorimeter track (left, hit, right) Preliminary !!! + Fraction of charge released along the calorimeter track (left, hit, right) ~R m → 50% -ve +ve e-e- e+e+

Summary PAMELA is currently conducting an indirect search for dark matter using antiparticles in the cosmic radiation. Launched on June 15th In-orbit commissioning tests concluded successfully. PAMELA has been in continuous data taking mode since 11th July ~4 TB of data downlinked. Data analysis is on-going. We expect to air first public results (probably antiparticle flux ratios) after the summer. [