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Instruments, Volume 6, Issue 2

2022 June - 3 articles

Cover Story: A new-generation magnetic spectrometer in space is required to address open frontiers in fundamental and cosmic ray physics. The design of the Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector in Orbit (ALADInO) instrument is based on advanced technologies, mainly a superconducting magnet coupled to precision tracking and time-of-flight systems and an inner 3D-imaging deep calorimeter, conceived to overcome the limitations of magnetic spectrometers in space. ALADInO is proposed for operations in L2 to enable observations with ground-breaking discovery potentials by precision measurements of electrons, positrons, and antiprotons up to 10 TeV, of nuclear cosmic rays up to PeV energies, and by the possible unambiguous detection and measurement of low-energy antideuteron and antihelium in cosmic rays. View this paper

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Design of an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector In Orbit (ALADInO)

Oscar Adriani,
Corrado Altomare,
Giovanni Ambrosi,
Philipp Azzarello,
Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato,
Roberto Battiston,
Bertrand Baudouy,
Benedikt Bergmann,
Eugenio Berti and
Paolo Zuccon
+ 68 authors

Instruments2022, 6(2), 19;https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments6020019

11 May 2022

A new generation magnetic spectrometer in space will open the opportunity to investigate the frontiers in direct high-energy cosmic ray measurements and to precisely measure the amount of the rare antimatter component in cosmic rays beyond the reach...

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A High-Density Polarized ³He Gas–Jet Target for Laser–Plasma Applications

Pavel Fedorets,
Chuan Zheng,
Ralf Engels,
Ilhan Engin,
Herbert Feilbach,
Ulrich Giesen,
Harald Glückler,
Chrysovalantis Kannis,
Franz Klehr and
Markus Büscher
+ 7 authors

Instruments2022, 6(2), 18;https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments6020018

25 April 2022

A laser-driven spin-polarized ³He²⁺-beam source for nuclear–physics experiments and for the investigation of polarized nuclear fusion demands a high-density polarized $^{3}$ He gas-jet target. Such a target requires a magnetic system providing a perm...

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First Results from the Thomson Scattering Diagnostic on the Large Plasma Device

Marietta Kaloyan,
Sofiya Ghazaryan,
Shreekrishna P. Tripathi,
Walter Gekelman,
Mychal J. Valle,
Byonghoon Seo and
Christoph Niemann

Instruments2022, 6(2), 17;https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments6020017

7 April 2022

We present the first Thomson scattering measurements of electron density and temperature in the Large Plasma Device (LAPD), a 22 m long magnetized linear plasma device at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). The diagnostic spectrally reso...

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