Published April 2003
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Journal article
AMS-high energy gamma-ray physics potential
Creators
Description
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a large acceptance, superconducting magnetic spectrometer designed to search for anti-matter and to study, with high accuracy, the origin of dark-matter and the composition of cosmic rays. AMS will be able to provide accurate measurements of high-energy γ-ray spectra over a broad energy range (up to hundreds of GeV). The γ-ray sky survey sensitivity of AMS and a few preliminary examples of physics objectives are discussed
Additional details
Identifiers
- PII
- S0920563203905044;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
- Journal Volume
- 117
- Journal Issue
- 1-3,suppl.1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 119-121
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
- CODEN
- NPBSE7
Conference
- Title
- 31. international conference on high energy physics
- Dates
- 25-31 Jul 2002
- Place
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Mexico
- INIS RN
- 35039400
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; ALPHA SPECTROMETERS; ANTIMATTER; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; GAMMA RADIATION; GEV RANGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; CALCULATION METHODS; DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; SPECTROMETERS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.