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[en] The AMS-02 experiment is a multi-purpose detector for cosmic ray particles mounted on the International Space Station. It recorded over 40 billion events since its installation in 2011. The bulk of these events are protons, which are most abundant in cosmic rays. Electrons are 100 times and positrons 1000 times less abundant. Measuring the positrons as function of energy is especially interesting, as an excess over the expected astrophysical background may hint at an additional source of positrons in the galaxy or a new phenomena responsible for the excess, e.g. dark-matter annihilation. In order to measure positrons accurately with a small uncertainty, a large proton rejection of 10"6 is needed. AMS-02 offers a transition radiation detector to separate positrons from protons and an electromagnetic calorimeter allowing a precise measurement of the kinetic energy of an incoming lepton. This talk covers the general strategy of identifying electrons/positrons with AMS-02 and presents the so-obtained electron/positron fluxes that were recently published.
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2015 DPG Spring meeting of the divisions physics education, extraterrestrial physics, radiation and medicine physics, particle physics and working group accelerator physics; DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2015 der Fachverbaende Didaktik der Physik, Extraterrestrische Physik, Strahlen- und Medizinphysik, Teilchenphysik und dem Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik; Wuppertal (Germany); 9-13 Mar 2015; Available from http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de; Session: T 73.1 Mi 16:45; No further information available; Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 50(2)
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Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft; ISSN 0420-0195;
; CODEN VDPEAZ; (Wuppertal 2015 issue); [1 p.]

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ANTILEPTONS, ANTIMATTER, ANTIPARTICLES, CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION, COSMIC RADIATION, DETECTION, ELECTRONS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, FERMIONS, IONIZING RADIATIONS, LEPTONS, MATTER, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION, POSITRONS, RADIATION DETECTION, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIATION FLUX, RADIATIONS, SATELLITES, SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION, SPACE VEHICLES, SPECTROSCOPY, VEHICLES
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