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Kick-off of the EU H2020 FETOPEN Program PAN

On January 21^stÌýand 22^ndÌýscientist and engineers from the Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics (DPNC) of the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Perugia of Italy, and the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical AV¶ÌÊÓƵ in Prague of the Czech Republic, have met in Villa Boninchi in Geneva to the kick-off of the development of a novel space instrument called PAN.Ìý

PAN, which stands forÌýPenetrating particle ANalyzer, is a magnetic spectrometer designed to operate in deep space to precisely measure the flux, composition and arrival direction of highly penetrating particles with energy ranging from 100 MeV/nucleon to 20 GeV/nucleon, filling the current measurement gap in this energy interval. PAN has multidisciplinary applications in astrophysics, solar physics, space weather and space travel.Ìý

The PAN instrument will deploy some of the cutting-edge technologies such as high precision silicon strip detector, active pixel detectors, space qualified electronics and mechanics design developed by the collaborating institutes.

The kick-off meeting marked the start of the development of a demonstrator, Mini.PAN, funded by a 2.6 ²Ñ€Ìýgrant from the European Commission within the H2020 FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) program.

The Space Astroparticle Physics Group at DPNC (Prof. Xin Wu) is the coordinator of the project.Ìý

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