Title :
Design and performance of a magnetic spectrometer for antimatter search in space
Author_Institution :
Ist. Nazionale di Fisica Nucl., Perugia, Italy
Abstract :
The conceptual design of the spectrometer and the scientific goals of the AMS experiment, are presented here as well as the measured performances for minimum ionising particles using ground level cosmic-rays and reconstructed events from space. The first results of a test done with relativistic carbon ions at GSI (Darmstadt) are also given. A preliminary version of the AMS apparatus flew on June 1998 on shuttle mission STS-91. In 2002 the complete system will be installed on the space station Alpha and it will take data for three years
Keywords :
antimatter; cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray nuclei; particle spectrometers; Alpha space station; antimatter search; ground level cosmic-rays; magnetic spectrometer; minimum ionising particles; relativistic carbon ions; Collaboration; Detectors; Helium; Instruments; Particle measurements; Performance evaluation; Prototypes; Space shuttles; Space stations; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium, 1998. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5021-9
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775132
