Astrophysics with the AMS-02 experiment

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dc.creatorAMS Collaboration
dc.creatorPereira, Rui
dc.date2007-10-04
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dc.descriptionThe 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, using state-of-the-art particle identification techniques. Following the successful flight of the detector prototype (AMS-01) aboard the space shuttle, AMS-02 is expected to provide a significant improvement on the current knowledge of the elemental and isotopic composition of hadronic cosmic rays due to its long exposure time (minimum of 3 years) and large acceptance (0.5 m^2 sr) which will enable it to collect a total statistics of more than 10^10 nuclei. Detector capabilities for charge, velocity and mass identification, estimated from ion beam tests and detailed Monte Carlo simulations, are presented. Relevant issues in cosmic ray astrophysics addressed by AMS-02, including the test of cosmic ray propagation models, galactic confinement times and the influence of solar cycles on the local cosmic ray flux, are briefly discussed.
dc.description4 pages. Contribution to the HEPP-EPS International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (Lisbon 2005). Presenter: Rui Pereira on behalf of the AMS collaboration
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0984
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0984
dc.identifierElectronic publication in Proceedings of the HEPP-EPS International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics - http://pos.sissa.it//archive/conferences/021/019/HEP2005_019.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/139330
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleAstrophysics with the AMS-02 experiment
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