Title
In-flight operations and status of 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 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.
Volume
30-July-2015
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84988693305
ISSN of the container
18248039
Conference
Proceedings of Science - 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015
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