Title
Alignment of the AMS-02 silicon Tracker
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Ambrosi G.
Azzrello P.
Battiston R.
Bertucci B.
Choumilov E.
Choutko V.
Delgado-Mendez C.
Duranti M.
D’Urso D.
Fiandrini E.
Graziani M.
Habiby M.
Haino S.
Ionica M.
Mereu I.
Natale S.
Nozzoli F.
Oliva A.
Paniccia M.
Pizzolotto C.
Pohl M.
Rapin D.
Saouter P.
Tomassetti N.
Wu K.
Zhang Z.
Zuccon P.
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica
Abstract
The AMS-02 was installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2011 and has since then been successfully collecting data. One of its main sub-detectors, the silicon tracker, determines the rigidity, charge sign and absolute charge of cosmic rays by up to nine layers, which give the maximum lever arm of 3 m. For the best performance of the tracker the relative position of nine layers has to be known with a precision better than 10 µm at any moment. In this contribution the procedure and the evaluation of the accuracy of the alignment are discussed.
Volume
2013-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84919753921
ISBN of the container
978-858906429-3
Conference
Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
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