| DATE: |
2006-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 |
| PLACE: |
4th Bld. Rm345 |
| TITLE: |
THE ANTI MATTER SPECTROMETER (AMS-02): A PARTICLE PHYSICS DETECTOR IN SPACE |
| CONTACT: |
physics Seminar Organizer |
| SPEAKER: |
Roberto Battiston (INFN and University of Perugia) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| URL: |
http://seminar.kek.jp/physics |
| ABSTRACT: |
AMS-02 is a space borne magnetic spectrometer
designed to measure with accuracies up to one part in 10^9 the composition
of Cosmic Rays near Earth. With a large acceptance (5000 cm2 sr), an intense
magnetic field from a superconducting magnet (0.7 T) and an accurate
particle identifications AMS-02 will provide the highest accuracy in Cosmic
Rays measurements up to the TeV region. During a three years long mission
on the ISS AMS-02 will achieve a sensitivity to the existence of anti-He in
the Cosmic Rays of one part in a billion as well as important informations
on the origin of Dark Matter. We review the status of the construction of
the AMS-02 experiment in preparation for the three years mission on the ISS
as well as its physics potential.
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