The RICH detector of the AMS-02 experiment: status and physics prospects
Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), whose final version AMS-02 is to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) for at least 3 years, is a detector designed to measure charged cosmic ray spectra with energies up to the TeV region and with high energy photon detection capability up to a few hundred GeV. It is equipped with several subsystems, one of which is a proximity focusing RICH detector with a dual radiator (aerogel+NaF) that provides reliable measurements for particle velocity and charge. The assembly and testing of the AMS RICH is currently being finished and the full AMS detector is expected to be ready by the end of 2008. The RICH detector of AMS-02 is presented. Physics prospects are briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0801.3250,
title = {The RICH detector of the AMS-02 experiment: status and physics prospects},
author = {Rui Pereira and M. Aguilar-Benitez and L. Arruda and F. Barao and B. Baret and A. Barrau and G. Barreira and E. Belmont and J. Berdugo and J. Borges and M. Buenerd and D. Casadei and J. Casaus and E. Cortina and M. Costado and D. Crespo and C. Delgado and C. Diaz and L. Derome and P. Goncalves and R. Garcia-Lopez and C. de la Guia and A. Herrero and E. Lanciotti and G. Laurenti and A. Malinin and C. Mana and J. Marin and M. Mangin-Brinet and G. Martinez and A. Menchaca-Rocha and C. Palomares and M. Pimenta and A. Putze and Y. Sallaz-Damaz and E. S. Seo and I. Sevilla and A. Torrento and M. Vargas-Trevino and O. Veziant},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3250},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages. Contribution to the 10th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications (Como 2007). Presenter: Rui Pereira