• Title of article

    Precision measurements of in Cosmic Ray with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS

  • Author/Authors

    Battiston، نويسنده , , Roberto، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2014
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    6
  • To page
    9
  • Abstract
    One hundred years after their discovery by Victor Hess, Cosmic Rays are nowadays subject of intense research from space based detectors, able to perform for the first time high precision measurement of their composition and spectra as well as of isotropy and time variability. On May 2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02), has been installed on the International Space Station, to measure with high accuracy the Cosmic Rays properties searching for rare events which could be indication of the nature of Dark Matter or presence of nuclear Antimatter. AMS-02 is the result of nearly two decades of effort of an international collaboration, to design and build a state of the art detector capable to perform high precision Cosmic Rays measurement. In this paper I will briefly report on the first results of AMS-02 two years after the beginning of the operations in space.
  • Keywords
    Cosmic rays , Space research , Dark matter , Antimatter
  • Journal title
    Physics of the Dark Universe
  • Serial Year
    2014
  • Journal title
    Physics of the Dark Universe
  • Record number

    1990386