The Cherenkov Camera for the PBR Mission
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.
Authors
- G. Osteria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-8103)
- V. Scotti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8868-3990)
- D. Campana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-9707)
- Marco Mese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-3542)
- Alessandro Marcelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7041-4669)
- Roberto Ammendola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4501-3289)
- M. Mignone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2973-3103)
- М. Бертаина (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-1397)
- Э. Реали (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3672-9592)
- B. Panico (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1063-6961)
- F. Cafagna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7450-4784)
- C. De Santis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-2446)
- L. Marcelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-1228)
- M. Casolino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-5104)
- V. Masone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1166-1916)
- Raffaele Gargiulo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1012-6970)
- E. Ricci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4222-9976)
- Andrea Di Salvo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-0327)
- Francesco Perfetto
- D. Badoni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-2039)
- Giuseppe Passeggio
- Haroon Qureshi
- Antonio Anastasio
Institutions
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics And Applications (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata (IT)
- University of Turin (IT)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Particles
- Published
- 2025-11-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040090
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87
Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
- Nuclear Safety and Security Commission