Title
Nuclei charge measurement with the AMS-02 silicon tracker
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Ambrosi G.
Azzarello P.
Battiston R.
Bertucci B.
Choumilov E.
Choutko V.
Crispoltoni M.
Delgado C.
Duranti M.
Donnini F.
D'Urso D.
Fiandrini E.
Formato V.
Graziani M.
Habiby M.
Haino S.
Ionica M.
Kanishchev K.
Nozzoli F.
Oliva A.
Paniccia M.
Pizzolotto C.
Pohl M.
Qin X.
Rapin D.
Saouter P.
Tomassetti N.
Vitale V.
Vitillo S.
Wu X.
Zhang Z.
Zuccon P.
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Publisher(s)
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is an astroparticle physics detector that has been installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2011. The purpose of the experiment is to study with unprecedented precision and statistics cosmic-ray particles in an energy range from 0.5 GeV to few TeV. The AMS-02 Tracker system accurately determines the trajectory and absolute charge (Z) of cosmic rays by multiple measurements of the coordinates in nine layers of double-sided silicon micro-strip detectors. Given the high dynamic range of the front-end electronics, nuclei from hydrogen up to iron and above can be identified. The charge resolution could be naturally degraded by a number of detector effects that need to be carefully accounted for. In this contribution we describe the procedure that has been used to accurately calibrate the Tracker response. Finally we will discuss the Tracker calibration stability with time.
Volume
30-July-2015
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84988698764
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of Science - 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015
ISSN of the container
18248039
Conference
34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015
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