AMS - a magnetic spectrometer on the international space station
Astrophysics
2008-02-01 v1
Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a particle detector, designed to search for cosmic antimatter and dark matter and to study the elemental and isotopic composition of primary cosmic rays, that will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 to operate for at least three years. The detector will be equipped with a ring imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH) enabling measurements of particle electric charge and velocity with unprecedented accuracy. Physics prospects and test beam results are shortly presented.
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@article{arxiv.0801.4957,
title = {AMS - a magnetic spectrometer on the international space station},
author = {Luísa Arruda and Rui Pereira and Fernando Barão and Gaspar Barreira and João Borges and Patrícia Gonçalves and Mário Pimenta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4957},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
2 pages. Contribution to the 15th Portuguese National Meeting on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Lisbon, Portugal 2005). Presenters: Luisa Arruda, Rui Pereira