AMS : A particle observatory in space
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The expected physics and astrophysics capabilities of the AMS experiment on board the International Space Station are briefly reviewed : high statistics study of cosmic rays in a wide range of energies, search for primordial antimatter, search for non-baryonic dark matter and, to some extent, gamma-ray astronomy.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103493,
title = {AMS : A particle observatory in space},
author = {Aurelien Barrau and AMS collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103493},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the Rencontres de Moriond, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, Les Arcs, France (January 20-27, 2001)