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Current status of the MONICA experiment to study the ionic composition of solar cosmic rays

  • Proceedings of the 33rd National Conference on Cosmic Rays
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The current status of the MONICA experiment to study fluxes of cosmic ray ions from H to Ni in the energy range of 10–300 MeV in the vicinity of the Earth is described. The main scientific objective of the MONICA experiment is to measure the ionic and isotope compositions and energy spectra of solar cosmic rays for individual solar events, and to study the time evolution of these characteristics. The MONICA experiment will also allow us to investigate the ionic and isotope compositions of the anomalous cosmic ray component, galactic cosmic rays, and fluxes of nuclei in the Earth’s radiation belt. Ion fluxes will be observed using the MONICA large-aperture multilayer semiconductor spectrometer telescope on board a spacecraft in a circumterrestrial polar orbit with an altitude on the order of 600 km. This will enable us to measure the charges of ions with energies over 10 MeV/nucleon by using the Earth’s magnetic field as a charge separator. The geometric factor of the instrument is 100 cm2 sr; its angular resolution is 1°.

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  1. National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), Moscow, 115409, Russia

    A. V. Bakaldin, S. A. Voronov & A. V. Karelin

  2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980, Russia

    N. I. Zamiatin & S. V. Khabarov

  3. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. N. Kvashnin & Y. I. Stozhkov

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  1. A. V. Bakaldin
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  2. S. A. Voronov
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Bakaldin, S.A. Voronov, N.I. Zamiatin, A.V. Karelin, A.N. Kvashnin, Y.I. Stozhkov, S.V. Khabarov, 2015, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2015, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 757–760.

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Bakaldin, A.V., Voronov, S.A., Zamiatin, N.I. et al. Current status of the MONICA experiment to study the ionic composition of solar cosmic rays. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 79, 700–703 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873815050081

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