| Title: |
In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker |
| Authors: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Ambrosi, G.; Azzarello, P.; Battiston, R.; Bazo, J.; Bertucci, B.; Choumilov, Evgueni; Choutko, Vitali; Crispoltoni, M.; Delgado, C.; Duranti, M.; Donnini, F.; D’Urso, D.; Fiandrini, E.; Formato, V.; Graziani, M.; Habiby, M.; Haino, S.; Ionica, M.; Kanishchev, Konstantin; 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, Paolo |
| Source: |
Proceedings of Science |
| Publisher Information: |
Sissa Medialab 2021-11-15T16:48:50Z 2021-11-05T11:50:45Z 2021-11-15T16:48:50Z 2016-08 2019-05-03T16:42:47Z |
| Document Type: |
Electronic Resource |
| 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. |
| Index Terms: |
Article; http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper |
| URL: |
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137426.2; 10.22323/1.236.0690 |
| Availability: |
Open access content. Open access content; Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
| Note: |
application/octet-stream; English |
| Other Numbers: |
MYG oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/137426.2; Duranti, Matteo. 2016. "In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker."; 1286404445 |
| Contributing Source: |
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECHNOL LIBRS; From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| Accession Number: |
edsoai.on1286404445 |
| Database: |
OAIster |