Published September 2004
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Journal article
Slow control for the TRD gas supply system of AMS-02
Creators
- 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)
Description
AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) [http://ams.cern.ch/AMS] is a high energy physics experiment that will operate for three years on the International Space Station. Supersymmetric dark matter could produce an excess in the 10-300GeV positron spectrum. A 10-5 separation of positrons from protons is needed for this signal and will be achieved partially by a TRD (Transition Radiation Detector). Apart from the radiator, the TRD is a gaseous detector is filled with Xe:CO2=80:20 and refreshed by 7 liters of gas per day. This paper describes the TRD gas supply system and the slow electronics control system for it, which will keep gas gain variations below 3%
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.08.008;
- PII
- S0920-5632(04)00298-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
- Journal Volume
- 134
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 66-68
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
- CODEN
- NPBSE7
Conference
- Title
- 2. international conference on particle and fundamental physics in space
- Acronym
- SpacePart '03
- Dates
- 10-12 Dec 2003
- Place
- Washington, DC (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36051466
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CARBON DIOXIDE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COSMIC POSITRONS; COSMIC PROTONS; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; ENERGY SPECTRA; GAIN; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; RADIATORS; SATELLITES; SPARTICLES; SUPERSYMMETRY; TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTORS; VARIATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLIFICATION; ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; BARYONS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBON OXIDES; CHALCOGENIDES; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEONS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POSITRONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; PROTONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SPECTRA; SPECTROMETERS; SYMMETRY
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.