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Journal article
The AMS-02 silicon tracker: First year on ISS in space
Description
The AMS-02 particle physics experiment was installed on the International Space Station in May 2011 and is taking cosmic ray data since then. Its tracker, with a total active area of 6.75 m2, is made of silicon microstrips detectors in the field of a permanent magnet. It measures the rigidity and charge sign and identifies the ion species by dE/dx. The status of the AMS-02 tracker and its operation, after first months of data taking in space, is presented, as well as its performances and potentialities
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.067Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.067;
- PII
- S0168-9002(12)01404-0;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 718
- Journal Page Range
- p. 524-526
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 12. Pisa meeting on advanced detectors
- Dates
- 20-26 May 2012
- Place
- La Biodola, Elba (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45047959
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC RAY DETECTION; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; OPERATION; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE TRACKS; PERFORMANCE; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SI MICROSTRIP DETECTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- DETECTION; EQUIPMENT; MAGNETS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SATELLITES; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SPACE VEHICLES; SPECTROMETERS; VEHICLES
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.