Title
AMS-02 Track reconstruction and rigidity measurement
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Ambrosi G.
Azzarello P.
Battiston R.
Bertucci B.
Chikanian A.
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 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 02 is a particle detector taking data on the International Space Station since May 19th 2011. A key element of AMS-02 is the Silicon Tracker that allows to determine the trajectory of the charged cosmic rays passing through the AMS-02 magnetic field. In this contribution, we discuss the procedures that from the tracker raw signals allow to reconstruct a full particle trajectory. We discuss how different fitting procedures achieve the best rigidity measurement accuracy in different intervals and we present the overall performance in the rigidity measurement for protons and helium nuclei. Finally we present a technique to reduce the charge confusion.
Volume
2013-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85052444117
ISBN of the container
978-858906429-3
Conference
Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
Sources of information:
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