The PAMELA Mission: Heralding a new era in precision cosmic ray physics

O Adriani, GC Barbarino, GA Bazilevskaya, R Bellotti… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
On the 15th of June 2006, the PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-
nuclei Astrophysics) satellite-borne experiment was launched onboard the Russian Resurs …

[HTML][HTML] The microphysics and macrophysics of cosmic rays

EG Zweibel - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This review paper commemorates a century of cosmic ray research, with emphasis on the
plasma physics aspects. Cosmic rays comprise only∼ 10− 9 of interstellar particles by …

Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations at 6–56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters using three
years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore infill array in the center …

IceTop: The surface component of IceCube

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, M Ackermann, J Adams… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an
air shower array with an area of 1km2. The detector allows a detailed exploration of the …

Search for gamma-ray spectral lines with the Fermi Large Area<? format?> Telescope and dark matter implications

M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Albert, A Allafort… - Physical Review D …, 2013 - APS
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are
excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially …

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum<? format?> from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, J Adams… - Physical Review D …, 2011 - APS
A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400
TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18 000 up-going atmospheric muon …

Probing the pulsar origin of the anomalous positron fraction with AMS-02 and atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes

T Linden, S Profumo - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations by PAMELA, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 have conclusively indicated a
rise in the cosmic-ray positron fraction above 10 GeV, a feature which is impossible to mimic …

Search for dark matter from the Galactic halo with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, J Adams… - Physical Review D …, 2011 - APS
Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy
neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a …

Anisotropy in cosmic-ray arrival directions in the southern hemisphere based on six years of data from the IceCube detector

MG Aartsen, K Abraham, M Ackermann… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last few decades, a number of experiments have provided long-term, statistically
significant evidence of a faint sidereal anisotropy in the cosmic-ray arrival direction …

Astrophysical models for the origin of the positron “excess”

PD Serpico - Astroparticle Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
Over the last three years, several satellite and balloon observatories have suggested
intriguing features in the cosmic ray lepton spectra. Most notably, the PAMELA satellite has …