The NUCLEON experiment: The current status

New Universal Cosmic-Ray Knee near a Magnetic Rigidity of 10 TV with the NUCLEON Space Observatory

“…2) are four planes of the charge measurement system, a carbon target, six planes of the energy measurement system using the KLEM method (KLEM system tracker), three double-layer planes of the scintillator trigger system, and a small aperture ionization calorimeter (25 × 25 cm 2 ). Details of the detector design are provided in the articles [33,34,35,36,37]. On December 28, 2014, the NUCLEON detector was launched into a sun-synchronous orbit.…”

Energy spectra of protons and helium nuclei measured by the cosmic ray NUCLEON experiment

“…The NUCLEON device [11][12][13][14][15][16] was designed and produced by the collaboration of SINP MSU (the main investigator), JINR (Dubna) and a number of other Russian scientific and industrial centres. Currently, it is placed on board the RESURS-P №2 satellite.…”

“…The "knee" energy range -10 14 -10 16 eV -is a crucial region for the understanding of cosmic rays, acceleration and propagation in the interstellar medium. It is important to obtain more data with elemental resolution.…”

Primary and secondary cosmic rays in the NUCLEON space experiment after two years of data acquisition

“…Two years of the NUCLEON experiment A. Panov tem, and a small aperture calorimeter (IC). Details of the detector design are provided in the articles [34,35,36,37,38]. The weight of the detector is approximately 360 kg; the power consumption does not exceed 160 W. On December 28, 2014, the NUCLEON detector was launched into a sun-synchronous orbit with an average altitude of 475 km and an inclination of 97 degrees as an additional payload of the Russian satellite Resource-P 2.…”