Welcome to the local KTH PAMELA homepage. This page simply collects together some useful links. For a more fancy presentation of PAMELA (including a list of publications), please see the official PAMELA homepage.

We are part of the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics at AlbaNova University Cente.

Introduction

PAMELA is a satellite-borne apparatus designed to study charged particles in the cosmic radiation with a particular emphasis on antimatter (antiprotons, positrons, and possibly antihelium). Distortions to the antiparticle energy spectra may indicate the nature of the dark matter in the Universe. PAMELA was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 15th 2006. Launch photographs.

Present group members

Mark Pearce, professor, group leader
Antje Putze, postdoc (affiliated through OKC)
Laura Rossetto, PhD student
Juan Wu, PhD student
Per Carlson, professor emeritus

Past group members

William Gillard (postdoc). Moved to LPSC, Grenoble.
Petter Hofverberg (PhD student). Moved to Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg.
Silvio Orsi (PhD student). Moved to University of Geneva.
Jens Lund (PhD student). Moved to Endevo, Stockholm.
Johan Lundquist (PhD student). Moved to Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark.

Current activities

Studies of high energy antiprotons.
Studies of the high energy positron flux.
Modelling of PAMELA results using GALPROP and MCMC.

Past activities

Anticoincidence system (plastic scintillator-based)
Study of in-orbit particle rate environment
Developement and implementation of the PAMELA level-2 trigger
Electron-hadron separation techniques using the PAMELA Si-W calorimeter
Studies of low energy antiprotons
Cosmic ray anisotropies.

Local thesis archive

Laura Rossetto
Licentiate - November 2010.
Juan Wu
Licentiate - April 2010
Petter Hofverberg
PhD - November 2008.
Silvio Orsi
Licentiate - June 2004.
PhD - March 2007
Jens Lund
Licentiate - June 2002.
PhD - November 2004.
Johan Lundquist
PhD - December 2005