In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker
The AMS-02 detector is a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer operating on the International Space Station since May 2011. More than 60 billion events have been collected by the instrument as of today. One of the key subdetectors of AMS-02 is the microstrip silicon Tracker, designed to precisely m...
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| description | The AMS-02 detector is a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer operating on the International Space Station since May 2011. More than 60 billion events have been collected by the instrument as of today. One of the key subdetectors of AMS-02 is the microstrip silicon Tracker, designed to precisely measure the trajectory and absolute charge of cosmic rays in the GeV-TeV energy range. In addition, with the magnetic field, is also measuring the particle magnetic rigidity, defined as R = pc=Ze, and the sign of the charge. This report presents the Tracker on-line operations and calibration during the first four years of data taking in space. The track reconstruction efficiency and the resolution will be also reviewed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1374262021-11-06T03:04:20Z In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker Duranti, Matteo The AMS-02 detector is a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer operating on the International Space Station since May 2011. More than 60 billion events have been collected by the instrument as of today. One of the key subdetectors of AMS-02 is the microstrip silicon Tracker, designed to precisely measure the trajectory and absolute charge of cosmic rays in the GeV-TeV energy range. In addition, with the magnetic field, is also measuring the particle magnetic rigidity, defined as R = pc=Ze, and the sign of the charge. This report presents the Tracker on-line operations and calibration during the first four years of data taking in space. The track reconstruction efficiency and the resolution will be also reviewed. 2021-11-05T11:50:45Z 2021-11-05T11:50:45Z 2016-08-18 2019-05-03T16:42:47Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137426 Duranti, Matteo. 2016. "In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker." en 10.22323/1.236.0690 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Sissa Medialab Proceedings of Science |
| spellingShingle | Duranti, Matteo In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker |
| title | In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker |
| title_full | In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker |
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| title_full_unstemmed | In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker |
| title_short | In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker |
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