8th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors, Taipei, Taiwan

Performance of the AMS-02 silicon Tracker in the ISS mission

8 Dec 2011, 11:50

20m

Activity Center (Academia Sinica)

ORAL Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences

Speaker

Dr Sadakazu Haino (Universita e INFN (IT))

Description

Since the successful launch of space shuttle, STS-134 on 16/May/2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) has been continuously taking cosmic data for several months. As well as the other AMS detector components, the AMS silicon Tracker is working as expected. The tracker is composed of 2264 double sided silicon microstrip sensors with total active area of 6.75 m^2. In this paper performance of the Tracker, such as noise stability, signal efficiency and resolution, evaluated with the data taken in the first few months of the ISS mission will be presented.

Presentation materials

Slides

1208_Haino_hstd8_ams_haino.pdf