CALET Results after Three Years on Orbit on the International Space Station


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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is an astroparticle physics experiment installed on the International Space Station since August 2015. The CALET mission was conceived to address several outstanding questions of high-energy astroparticle physics, like indirect detection of dark matter, the origin of cosmic rays (CRs), their mechanisms of acceleration and galactic propagation, the presence of possible nearby astrophysical CR sources. That can be achieved by precise measurements of the fluxes of CR electrons and γ rays up to the unexplored region above 1 TeV, and the energy spectra and composition of CR nuclei from a few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. In order to perform these observations, the instrument combines a thick total absorption PWO crystal calorimeter for energy measurement, a scintillator hodoscope for charge identification and thin imaging tungsten-scintillating fiber calorimeter providing accurate particle tracking and complementary charge measurement. In this paper, we will present an overview of the main CALET results based on the data collected in the first three years of the mission.

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P. Maestro

Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment; INFN Sezione di Pisa

Autor responsável pela correspondência
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Department of Physics; INFN Sezione di Florence

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CRESST and Astroparticle Physics Laboratory NASA/GSFC; Department of Physics

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Research Institute for Science and Engineering; Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Department of Physics; INFN Sezione di Florence

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Department of Physics; INFN Sezione di Florence

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Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment; INFN Sezione di Pisa

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CRESST and Astroparticle Physics Laboratory NASA/GSFC; Department of Physics

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Department of Physics; INFN Sezione di Florence

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Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Department of Physics

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Department of Electronic Information Systems

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Department of Physics and Astronomy

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CRESST and Astroparticle Physics Laboratory NASA/GSFC; Department of Physics

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Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment; INFN Sezione di Pisa

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INFN Sezione di Pisa; University of Pisa

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Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA/GSFC

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INFN Sezione di Florence

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International Center for Science and Engineering Programs

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Faculty of Science

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INFN Sezione di Florence

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University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; INFN Sezione di Rome “Tor Vergata”

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INFN Sezione di Florence

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Department of Physics

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College of Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Mathematics

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CRESST and Astroparticle Physics Laboratory NASA/GSFC; Department of Physics

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Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment; INFN Sezione di Pisa

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Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment; INFN Sezione di Pisa

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Kanagawa University

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Research Institute for Science and Engineering; Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; School of Advanced Science and Engineering

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