Computer Science
Scientific paper
May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010eguga..1213958d&link_type=abstract
EGU General Assembly 2010, held 2-7 May, 2010 in Vienna, Austria, p.13958
Computer Science
Scientific paper
ELENA (Emitted Low-Energy Neutral Atoms) is one of the four units of the SERENA experiment for the ESA cornerstone BepiColombo mission to Mercury. It is primarily devoted to understanding of Ion Sputtering processes and emission from planetary surfaces, particle back-scattering and Charge Exchange via neutral atoms detections in the energy range ~20 eV - 5 keV ELENA instrument is the first attempt of a new design techniques approached for the neutral particles identification in the low energy range. It is a Time-of-Flight system based on a peculiar Start section: an oscillating shutter (operated at frequencies up to a 100 kHz) and mechanical grating (two self-standing silicon nitride (Si3N4) membranes, patterned with arrays of long and narrow openings) that allows to identify the start time of the particles entering in the Time-of-Flight chamber. The Stop section at the end of the pattern is a 1-dimensional array composed by MCPs detector with discrete anodes corresponding to a Field of View of 4,5°x76°. This system allows having the determination of velocity and direction of the incoming particles. The instrument has a good capability to reject UV photons with the start section and to reject charged particle with a deflector system. In this paper the crucial parts of the instrument and test results will be described: the nano-structure membranes manufacturing, the shuttering system, the position encoder, the optical propriety of the membranes, the photon and particle test, the electronic box.
Dandouras Iannis
de Angelis Elisabetta
Di Lellis Andrea Maria
Leoni Roberto
Milillo Anna
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