Speaker
Dr
Jorge Casaus
(CIEMAT)
Description
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on the International Space Station (ISS) is the first large acceptance magnetic spectrometer to perform high statistics studies of cosmic rays in space. The experiment will address fundamental questions regarding primary antimatter and dark matter contents of the universe. In addition, the precision studies of cosmic rays in a wide energy range will result in a greatly improved understanding of the cosmic ray propagation in our galaxy. The detector is now in its final assembly stage at CERN (Geneva) and it will be shipped to KSC (Florida) for integration with the Space Shuttle in 2010.
Author
Dr
Jorge Casaus
(CIEMAT)