The employment of a corona discharge in the Earth constant electric field is discussed for generating high-intensity ion fluxes serving as main condensation centers for vapor and drop coagulation in ...free atmosphere. Physical basis of the method and its application for stimulation and enhancement of precipitations are considered.
We report on the first production of an antihydrogen beam by charge exchange of 6.1 keV antiprotons with a cloud of positronium in the GBAR experiment at CERN. The 100 keV antiproton beam delivered ...by the AD/ELENA facility was further decelerated with a pulsed drift tube. A 9 MeV electron beam from a linear accelerator produced a low energy positron beam. The positrons were accumulated in a set of two Penning–Malmberg traps. The positronium target cloud resulted from the conversion of the positrons extracted from the traps. The antiproton beam was steered onto this positronium cloud to produce the antiatoms. We observe an excess over background indicating antihydrogen production with a significance of 3–4 standard deviations.
For the GBAR (Gravitational Behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest) experiment at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility we have constructed a source of slow positrons, which uses a low-energy ...electron linear accelerator (linac). The driver linac produces electrons of 9 MeV kinetic energy that create positrons from bremsstrahlung-induced pair production. Staying below 10 MeV ensures no persistent radioactive activation in the target zone and that the radiation level outside the biological shield is safe for public access. An annealed tungsten-mesh assembly placed directly behind the target acts as a positron moderator. The system produces 5×107 slow positrons per second, a performance demonstrating that a low-energy electron linac is a superior choice over positron-emitting radioactive sources for high positron flux.
Cosmophysical Research with GAMMA-400 Topchiev, N. P.; Galper, A. M.; Arkhangelskaja, I. V. ...
Physics of atomic nuclei,
08/2023, Volume:
86, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope is the successor of Soviet and Russian gamma-ray telescopes. GAMMA-400 is being developed for cosmophysical research in accordance with the Russian Federal Space ...Program 2016–2025. The GAMMA-400 experiment will be implemented aboard the Russian astrophysical space observatory in a highly elliptic orbit during 7 years to provide new data on gamma-ray emission mainly from the Galactic plane, Galactic Center, the Sun and cosmic-ray electron
positron fluxes. The main mode of observations will be the continuous point-source mode with the duration of up to
100 days. The GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope will study high-energy gamma-ray emission up to several TeV and cosmic-ray electrons
positrons up to 20 TeV. GAMMA-400 will have the never-achieved angular resolution, the high-energy and time resolutions, as well as very good separation efficiency of gamma rays from cosmic-ray background and of electrons
positrons from protons. The distinctive features of GAMMA-400 are the excellent angular resolution of
at
GeV that exceeds resolutions of the space-based and ground-based gamma-ray telescopes by a factor of 5–10, as well as high-energy resolution of
at
GeV. GAMMA-400 studies can discover gamma-ray emission from annihilation or decay of dark matter particles, identify many unassociated discrete sources, explore the structure of extended sources, search for gamma-ray bursts and solar gamma-ray flares, improve the data on cosmic-ray electron
positron spectra for energies of >50 GeV.
For the first time the emission of neutron bursts in the process of high-voltage discharge in air was observed. Experiments were carried out at an average electric field strength of ∼1 MV·m(-1) and ...discharge current of ∼10 kA. Two independent methods (CR-39 track detectors and plastic scintillation detectors) registered neutrons within the range from thermal energies up to energies above 10 MeV and with an average flux density of ≳10(6) cm(-2) per shot inside the discharge zone. Neutron generation occurs at the initial phase of the discharge and correlates with x-ray generation. The data obtained allow us to assume that during the discharge fast neutrons are mainly produced.
The possibility of neutron generation by irradiating deuterated crystalline structures with an electron beam with an energy of 20–40 keV was studied. As targets, the deuterated crystalline structures ...of palladium and textured CVD diamond were used. Measurements of neutron emission are presented, which were carried out by three independent methods—scintillation detectors, counters based on He-3, and track detectors CR-39.The average neutron flux during irradiation was estimated as 1–10 s
in 4
sr.
The GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope is planned for the launch at the end of 2026 on the Navigator service platform designed by Lavochkin Association on an elliptical orbit with following initial ...parameters: an apogee
300 000, a perigee
500 km, a rotation period
7 days and inclination of 51.4
. The apparatus is expected to operate for more than 5 years, reaching an unprecedented sensitivity for the search of dark matter signatures and the study of the unresolved and so far unidentified gamma-ray sources. The segmented anticoincidence counters surround the converter-tracker and calorimeter of the telescope with the purpose of vetoing to assure a clean track reconstruction and charged particle background suppression. The anticoincidence detector prototype based on long BC-408 scintillator with silicon photomultipliers readout was tested using 300-MeV positron beam of synchrotron C-25P ‘‘PAKHRA’’ of Lebedev Physical Institute. The measurement setup, design concepts for the prototype detector together with test results are discussed.
At the ion accelerator HELIS at LPI, the neutron yield is investigated in DD reactions within a strongly textured polycrystalline deuterium-saturated CVD diamond under irradiation by a deuterium ion ...beam with the energy of less than 30keV. The measurements of the neutron flux in the beam direction are performed using a multichannel detector based on 3He counters, in dependence on the target angle, β, with respect to the beam axis. A significant anisotropy in the neutron yield is observed. At β=0° the yield is higher by a factor of 3 as compared to that at β=±45°. The possible reasons for the anisotropy, including ion channeling, are discussed.
The characteristics of the prototype of the scintillation detecting segment of time-of-flight and anticoincidence systems of being developed space-based GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope is studied. The ...amplitude resolution, time resolution and charged particle detection efficiency of the prototype with silicon photomultipliers readout obtained using
250 MeV positron beam of synchrotron C-25P ‘‘PAKHRA’’ of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute are presented. The comparison of applying both ‘‘standard’’ and ‘‘fast’’ outputs of silicon photomultipliers type ON Semiconductor MICROFC-60035-SMT used in the prototype is featured.
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