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A cosmic antimatter detector on a polar-orbit satellite

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In order to get a high statistics in the collection of low-energy cosmic antiprotons and to maximize the probability to detect the hypothesized cosmic antialphas, the necessity of an experiment placed on a polar orbit is discussed in this paper. An apparatus able to detect\(\bar \alpha , \bar p\) and e+ with high accuracy in the range (0.5 ÷ 5.0) GeV is also presented.

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In questo articolo si discute della necessità di un esperimento da porre su un’orbita polare allo scopo di rivelare con alta statistica antiprotoni cosmici di bassa energia e di rendere massima la probabilità di rivelare eventuali antialfa cosmici. Si presenta anche un apparato in grado di rivelare\(\bar \alpha , \bar p\) ed e+ con grande precisione nel range (0.5 ÷ 5.0) GeV.

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  1. Laboratori Nazionali INFN, Frascati (Roma)

    G. Basini & M. Ricci

  2. INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Italy

    P. Spillantini

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, II Università di Roma, Tor Vergata (Roma)

    P. Picozza

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Basini, G., Spillantini, P., Ricci, M. et al. A cosmic antimatter detector on a polar-orbit satellite. Nuov Cim B 103, 635–646 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02753827

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