New frontiers on high energy cosmic rays: the AMS-02 experiment on the International Space Station

by Dr Veronica Bindi (CERN)

Tuesday Jun 14, 2011, 3:00 PM → 4:15 PM Pacific/Honolulu

415 (Watanabe Hall)

AMS-02 is a magnetic spectrometer designed to perform accurate measurements of charged cosmic rays spectra and high energy photons in Space, in the hundreds MeV to TeV energy range. AMS-02 was installed in May 19th on the International Space Station where it will acquire data for the next decades. With its large acceptance (0,45 m2sr), long duration and state of the art of the particle identification techniques, it will provide the most sensitive search for the existence of primordial anti matter and multi-channel indirect search for dark matter. The AMS-02 detector major constituents and the tests performed at ESA, at CERN and at NASA will be reviewed. Finally a short report of the commissioning phase through the description of the first data acquired in Space will be given.