8–12 Aug 2022
America/Toronto timezone

Properties of Heavy Nuclei in South Atlantic Anomaly region

10 Aug 2022, 15:50
20m
Parallel Talk Cosmic Rays Cosmic Rays

Speaker

Francesca Giovacchini (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

Description

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer collected over 150 billion cosmic rays events during the first 8.5 years of operation aboard the International Space Station. A component of Z>2 ions with rigidities below the rigidity cutoff and located in the South Atlantic Anomaly have been measured both in the down-going and up-going direction.

Collaboration name AMS

Primary authors

Alberto Oliva (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Francesca Giovacchini (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Martha Liliana Valencia Otero (National Central University (TW))

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