Speaker
Melanie Heil
(KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
Description
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a state of the art particle detector, measuring the cosmic rays on the International Space Station (ISS) since May 19th 2011.
AMS-02 measures all the compounds of cosmic rays up to iron in an energy range from MeV to TeV. The seven subsystems of the detector allow for redundant particle identification with unprecedented accuracy.
With its proton rejection in the order of 10^6 a very high purity of the antiparticle spectra can be obtained.
The talk will give insight on the detector operation, particle identification and an overview of the first results and its various astroparticle physics interpretations.
Primary author
Melanie Heil
(KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
