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

• DOI: 10.3390/instruments6020019
• Publication Date: 2022-05-11T14:19:46Z
• Authors: Oscar Adriani; Corrado Altomare; Giovanni Ambrosi; Philipp Azzarello; Felicia Carla Tiz...; Roberto Battiston; Bertrand Baudouy; Benedikt Bergmann; Eugenio Berti; Bruna Bertucci; Mirko Boezio; Valter Bonvicini; Sergio Bottai; Petr Burian; Mario Buscemi; Franck Cadoux; Valerio Calvelli; Donatella Campana; Jorge Casaus; Andrea Contin; Raffaello D’Aless...; Magnus Dam; Ivan De Mitri; Francesco de Palma; Laurent Derome; Valeria Di Felice; Adriano Di Giovanni; Federico Donnini; Matteo Duranti; Emanuele Fiandrini; Francesco Maria F...; Valerio Formato; Fabio Gargano; Francesca Giovacc...; Maura Graziani; Maria Ionica; Roberto Iuppa; Francesco Loparco; Jesús Marín; Samuele Mariotto; Giovanni Marsella; Gustavo Martínez; Manel Martínez; Matteo Martucci; Nicolò Masi; Mario Nicola Mazz...; Matteo Mergé; Nicola Mori; Riccardo Munini; Riccardo Musenich; Lorenzo Mussolin; Francesco Nozzoli; Alberto Oliva; Giuseppe Osteria; Lorenzo Pacini; Mercedes Paniccia; Paolo Papini; Mark Pearce; Chiara Perrina; Piergiorgio Picozza; Cecilia Pizzolotto; Stanislav Pospíšil; Michele Pozzato; Lucio Quadrani; Ester Ricci; Javier Rico; Lucio Rossi; Enrico Junior Sch...; Davide Serini; Petr Smolyanskiy; Alessandro Sotgiu; Roberta Sparvoli; Antonio Surdo; Nicola Tomassetti; Valerio Vagelli; Miguel Ángel Velasco; Xin Wu; Paolo Zuccon
• Keywords: PAMELA detector; Rigidity (electromagnetism); Antiproton; Astroparticle physics; International Space Station

A new generation magnetic spectrometer in space will open the opportunity to investigate frontiers direct high-energy cosmic ray measurements and precisely measure amount of rare antimatter component rays beyond reach current missions. We propose concept for an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector In Orbit (ALADInO), designed take over legacy performed by PAMELA AMS-02. ALADInO features technological solutions conceived overcome limitations spectrometers with a layout that provides acceptance larger than 10 m2 sr. superconducting magnet coupled precision tracking time-of-flight systems can provide required matter–antimatter separation capabilities rigidity measurement resolution Maximum Detectable Rigidity better 20 TV. The inner 3D-imaging deep calorimeter, maximize isotropic particles, allows up PeV energies accurate energy spectra. operations Sun–Earth L2 Lagrangian point at least 5 years would enable unique revolutionary observations groundbreaking discovery potentials field astroparticle physics electrons, positrons, antiprotons TeV nuclear energies, possible unambiguous detection low-energy antideuteron antihelium components rays.