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

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-DK1 satellite by a ...

G. C. Barbarino | Mark Pearce | Andrea Vacchi | N. Zampa | V. V. Mikhailov | Marco Casolino | Roberto Bellotti | M. Ricci | F. Cafagna | G. Zampa | S. B. Ricciarini | P. Spillantini | E. Vannuccini | N. N. Nikonov | A. V. Karelin | V. Bonvicini | O. Adriani | E. A. Bogomolov | M. Bongi | G. Castellini | M. D. Kheymits | A. A. Leonov | P. Picozza | R. Sparvoli | U. Giaccari | L. Marcelli | P. Papini | Valerio Formato | M. Simon | M. Casolino | P. Picozza | R. Sparvoli | A. Galper | M. Boezio | A. Vacchi | N. Zampa | M. Ricci | P. Spillantini | G. Castellini | P. Carlson | F. Cafagna | R. Bellotti | M. P. Pascale | W. Menn | P. Papini | O. Adriani | S. Bottai | V. Mikhailov | G. Barbarino | G. Bazilevskaya | É. Bogomolov | M. Bongi | V. Bonvicini | A. Bruno | D. Campana | R. Carbone | S. Koldashov | A. Kvashnin | A. Leonov | V. Malakhov | L. Marcelli | A. Mayorov | E. Mocchiutti | A. Monaco | N. Mori | N. Nikonov | G. Osteria | M. Pearce | C. Pizzolotto | S. Ricciarini | L. Rossetto | R. Sarkar | Y. Stozhkov | E. Vannuccini | G. Vasilyev | S. Voronov | Y. Yurkin | G. Zampa | V. G. Zverev | Juan Wu | N. Simone | C. Santis | U. Giaccari | D. Campana | C. De Santis | N. De Simone | V. Di Felice | M. P. De Pascale | A. M. Galper | S. A. Voronov | G. Osteria | A. N. Kvashnin | M. Boezio | E. Mocchiutti | P. Carlson | W. Menn | M. Simon | M. Kheymits | V. Felice | C. Pizzolotto | S. Koldobskiy | R. Munini | M. Martucci | V. Formato | S. Krut’kov | Y. T. Yurkin | Nicola Mori | G. A. Bazilevskaya | S. Bottai | A. Bruno | Y. I. Stozhkov | R. Carbone | A. G. Mayorov | A. Monaco | Riccardo Munini | M. Martucci | Sergey Koldashov | S. A. Koldobskiy | S.Yu. Krut‘kov | V. V. Malakhov | Laura Rossetto | Ritabrata Sarkar | G. I. Vasilyev | Juan Wu | M. Simon | V. Zverev | A. Karelin | M. Simon

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