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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer in a precursor version (AMS-01), was flown in June 1998 on a 51.6 degrees orbit and at altitudes ranging between 320 and 390 km, on board of the space shuttle Discovery (flight STS-91). AMS-01 included an…

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-05 AMS Collaboration , Rui Pereira

For the first time accurate measurements of electron and positron fluxes in the energy range 0.2-10 GeV have been performed with the Alpha Magnetic Spectometer (AMS) instrument at altitudes of 370-390 Km in the geographic latitude interval…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 E. Fiandrini , G. Esposito , B. Bertucci , B. Alpat , R. Battiston , W. J. Burger , G. Lamanna , P. Zuccon

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-05 Luísa Arruda , Fernando Barão , Rui Pereira

A precision measurement by AMS-02 of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays is presented on this proceeding. Over the last two decades, there has been a strong interest in the cosmic ray positron fraction which exhibit an excess of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-02 Sami Caroff

New measurements of the cosmic ray fluxes (p, e+, e- and Helium) performed by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) during a ten days flight of space shuttle have revealed the existence of significant fluxes of particles below the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Paolo Lipari

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-22 Luísa Arruda , Fernando Barão , Rui Pereira

The first AMS flight in June 1998 on board of the space shuttle Discovery at an altitude of approximately 380 km unveiled unexpected features of the cosmic rays spectra below the Earth geomagnetic cut-off. In addition to a secondary flux of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Favier , R. Kossakowski , J. P Vialle

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a cosmic ray (CR) experiment that will operate on the International Space Station for three years, measuring the particle spectra in the rigidity range from 0.2 GV to 2 TV. The AMS-02 detector will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Diego Casadei

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high energy particle physics experiment that will study cosmic rays in the $\sim 100 \mathrm{MeV}$ to $1 \mathrm{TeV}$ range and will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) for at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 01 Collaboration

AMS-02 is a space-borne magnetic spectrometer designed to measure with very high accuracy the composition of Cosmic Rays near Earth. With a large acceptance of 5000 squared centimeters, an intense magnetic field from a superconducting…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-22 Francesca R. Spada

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), to be installed on the International Space Station, will provide data on cosmic radiations in the energy range from 0.5 GeV to 3 TeV. The main physics goals are the anti-matter and the dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Di Falco

A new measurement of the cosmic ray positron fraction in the energy range of 1-50 GeV is presented. The measurement is based on data taken by the AMS-01 experiment during its 10 day space shuttle flight in June 1998. A proton background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Gast , Jan Olzem , Stefan Schael

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment has released new measurements of primary and secondary nuclei in cosmic rays at the TeV energy scale. Using these data, we present new results based on a global Bayesian analysis of our two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti , Jie Feng , Alberto Oliva

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS02) experiment will be installed in 2009 on the International Space Station (ISS) for an operational period of at least three years. The purpose of AMS02 experiment is to perform accurate, high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-25 Behcet Alpat

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to detect cosmic-ray antimatter using the novel exotic atom technique, obviating the strong magnetic fields required by experiments like AMS, PAMELA, or…

We demonstrate that the tentative detection of a few antihelium events with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on board the International Space Station can, in principle, be ascribed to the annihilation or decay of Galactic dark matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-13 Adam Coogan , Stefano Profumo

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrograph (AMS) is a composite particle detector to be accommodated on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008. AMS is mainly devoted to galactic, charged Cosmic Rays studies, Antimatter and Dark Matter searches.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Monfardini , P. Trampus , R. Battiston , C. Gargiulo

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,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurelien Barrau , AMS collaboration

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) was installed on the International Space Station (ISS) and it has been collecting data successfully since May 2011. The main goals of AMS-02 are the search for cosmic anti-matter, dark matter and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-21 Zi-Yuan Li , Carlos Delgado , Francesca Giovacchini , Sadakazu Haino , Julia Hoffman