Advances in Space AstroParticle Physics: Frontier Technologies for Particle Measurements in Space, 2025 Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Space AstroParticle Physics: Frontier Technologies for Particle Measurements in Space, 2025 Edition”, welcomes the submission of papers that review recent advances and results regarding the design, development, integration, and testing of instrumentation for the measurement of particles and high-energy radiation (X- and γ-rays) in space.

The Guest Editors invite the community to submit scientific articles on topics related to frontier technologies for particle measurements in space:

• Instrumentation and missions for direct high-energy cosmic ray measurements in space;
• Instrumentation and missions for indirect high-energy cosmic ray measurements in space;
• Instrumentation and missions for direct low-energy cosmic ray measurements in space;
• Instrumentation and missions for hard X-ray and γ-ray direct measurements in space;
• R&D of novel approaches and instruments for particle and high-energy radiation measurements in space, including (but not limited to), the following:
• Tracking detectors
• Calorimetry detectors
• Fast Time-of-Flight systems
• Detectors for particle ID
• High Temperature Superconducting magnets
• FE and DAQ systems
• Application of AI techniques and approaches in space radiation instrumentation

Considering the diverse approaches that have been established in the current era of space observations, we welcome contributions that address all types of space platforms. This includes cubesats and nanosatellite constellations to large-scale space missions, as well as stratospheric balloon flight missions.

The Special Issue will also include selected papers from the international conference Advances in Space Astroparticle Physics: Frontier Technologies for Particle Measurements in Space (ASAPP 2025), which aims to review the latest advances in the field and provide a forum for the discussion of common targets and synergies among experimental communities.

Link to the conference webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/e/asapp2025

Note: Submission of articles is opened to the whole scientific community. Costs for Article Processing Charge (APC, see “Manuscript Submission Information”) for open access publication in the Special Issue are included in the conference fee for participants to the ASAPP2025 conference.

Dr. Matteo Duranti
Dr. Valerio Vagelli
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Particles is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.