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Article

The Cherenkov Camera for the PBR Mission

by
Beatrice Panico
1,2,*,
Roberto Ammendola
3,4,
Antonio Anastasio
2,
Davide Badoni
4,
Mario Bertaina
5,6,
Francesco Cafagna
7,8,
Donatella Campana
2,
Marco Casolino
4,
Cristian De Santis
4,
Andrea Di Salvo
5,6,
Raffaele Gargiulo
4,
Alessandro Marcelli
4,
Laura Marcelli
4,
Vincenzo Masone
2,
Marco Mese
2,
Marco Mignone
5,6,
Giuseppe Osteria
2,
Giuseppe Passeggio
2,
Francesco Perfetto
1,2,
Haroon Akhtar Qureshi
2,
Enzo Reali
4,
Ester Ricci
9 and
Valentina Scotti
1,2,† on behalf of the JEM-EUSO Collaborationadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli `Federico II’, 80125 Napoli, Italy
2
INFN, Sezione di Napoli, 80125 Napoli, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Roma, Italy
4
INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Roma, Italy
5
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
6
INFN, Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
7
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
8
INFN, Sezione di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
9
INFN TIFPA, 38123 Trento, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
A complete list of authors can be found at the Supplementary Materials.
Particles 2025, 8(4), 90; https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040090 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 15 October 2025 / Revised: 5 November 2025 / Accepted: 19 November 2025 / Published: 21 November 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Space AstroParticle Physics: Frontier Technologies for Particle Measurements in Space, 2025 Edition)
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Abstract

POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is designed as a payload for a NASA suborbital Super Pressure Balloon that will circle over the Southern Ocean and a mission duration as long as 50 days. The PBR instrument consists of a 1.1 m aperture Schmidt telescope similar to the POEMMA design with two cameras in its focal surface: a Fluorescence Camera (FC) and a Cherenkov Camera (CC). The CC camera is mainly devoted to the observation of cosmic-ray-induced high-altitude horizontal air showers (HAHAs) and search for neutrino-induced upward-going EAS. It will be made of 2048 SiPMs with a surface of 3 × 3 mm2 and a FoV of 12∘ by 6∘, covering a spectral range of 320–900 nm. The CC camera is an innovative detector currently under construction. In this paper, information about its current status will be given.
Keywords: cosmic rays; high-altitude horizontal air showers; balloon experiment cosmic rays; high-altitude horizontal air showers; balloon experiment

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Panico, B.; Ammendola, R.; Anastasio, A.; Badoni, D.; Bertaina, M.; Cafagna, F.; Campana, D.; Casolino, M.; De Santis, C.; Di Salvo, A.; et al. The Cherenkov Camera for the PBR Mission. Particles 2025, 8, 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040090

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Panico B, Ammendola R, Anastasio A, Badoni D, Bertaina M, Cafagna F, Campana D, Casolino M, De Santis C, Di Salvo A, et al. The Cherenkov Camera for the PBR Mission. Particles. 2025; 8(4):90. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040090

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Panico, Beatrice, Roberto Ammendola, Antonio Anastasio, Davide Badoni, Mario Bertaina, Francesco Cafagna, Donatella Campana, Marco Casolino, Cristian De Santis, Andrea Di Salvo, and et al. 2025. "The Cherenkov Camera for the PBR Mission" Particles 8, no. 4: 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040090

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Panico, B., Ammendola, R., Anastasio, A., Badoni, D., Bertaina, M., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Casolino, M., De Santis, C., Di Salvo, A., Gargiulo, R., Marcelli, A., Marcelli, L., Masone, V., Mese, M., Mignone, M., Osteria, G., Passeggio, G., Perfetto, F., ... Scotti, V., on behalf of the JEM-EUSO Collaboration. (2025). The Cherenkov Camera for the PBR Mission. Particles, 8(4), 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040090

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