Abstract: The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), also known as “Wukong” (the famous “Monkey King” in China), is a space mission supported by the strategic priority science and technology projects in space science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. DAMPE was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 500 km by the Long March 2-D rocket on Dec. 17 2015.  All sub-detectors were turned on successfully on Dec. 24 2015. They work very well all the time. Its energy resolution and particle identification abilities at TeV energies are the best among the similar experiments in the world. The on-orbit data also show that the charge resolution and the angular resolution are fully consistent with the expectation. Some results will be reported in this talk.

 

Bio: Prof. Jin Chang was awarded Ph. D. in Astrophysics in Purple Mountain Observatory in 2005. He is the leading professor of Mountain Observatory from 2002 until now. Prof. Jin Chang was honored with the Second prize of National Natural Science Award of China in 2012, as well as winner of Top prize National Award for Science and Technology Progress of China(40th). Prof. Jin Chang takes research in Space high energy radiation detector development, including hardware and software high energy simulation and data analysis.