Speakers
Prof.
Andrei Kounine
(MIT)Prof.
Samuel C.C. Ting
(MIT)
Description
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a major particle physics experiment on the International Space Station (ISS). AMS is a general purpose particle physics spectrometer using the technologies commonly employed at CERN and Fermilab and upgraded for space applications. The properties of the AMS detector are that it will provide a coordinate resolution of 10 microns, a timing resolution of 150 ps and a velocity resolution of 1 part in 1000. It will simultaneously measure e+, e-, p, p-bar and nuclei up to the TeV region. For its 20 year stay on the ISS it will provide a sensitive search for the origins of Dark Matter, the existence of antimatter, the existence of strangelets and so forth.
AMS is a DOE sponsored international collaboration involving 600 scientists from 16 countries. It is schedule to be transported by the Space Shuttle to ISS in November 2010.
Primary authors
Prof.
Andrei Kounine
(MIT)
Prof.
Samuel C.C. Ting
(MIT)