Published September 2004 | Version v1
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)

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.