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A Study of Cosmic Ray Secondaries Induced by the Mir Space Station Using AMS-01

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high energy particle physics experiment that will study cosmic rays in the 100MeV\sim 100 \mathrm{MeV} to 1TeV1 \mathrm{TeV} range and will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) for at least 3 years. A first version of AMS-02, AMS-01, flew aboard the space shuttle \emph{Discovery} from June 2 to June 12, 1998, and collected 10810^8 cosmic ray triggers. Part of the \emph{Mir} space station was within the AMS-01 field of view during the four day \emph{Mir} docking phase of this flight. We have reconstructed an image of this part of the \emph{Mir} space station using secondary π\pi^- and μ\mu^- emissions from primary cosmic rays interacting with \emph{Mir}. This is the first time this reconstruction was performed in AMS-01, and it is important for understanding potential backgrounds during the 3 year AMS-02 mission.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0406065,
  title  = {A Study of Cosmic Ray Secondaries Induced by the Mir Space Station Using AMS-01},
  author = {01 Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0406065},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

To be submitted to NIM B Added material requested by referee. Minor stylistic and grammer changes