Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, AMS-02, detector is operating on the International Space Station (ISS) since May the 19th, 2011. More than 120 billion events have been collected by the instrument in the first 7 years of data taking, providing detailed insight on the features of different species of cosmic rays. This contribution reviews the recent AMS-02 results based on 7 years of operations in space and their contribution to the advances in the understanding of cosmic ray origin, acceleration and propagation physics.
Highlights
9 layers of double sided Si microstrip tracker detectors
All the sub-detectors have some charge measurement capability: the most accurate is the inner tracker, providing a ∼ 0.1 c.u. charge resolution, with its 7 layers; the RICH and the TRD have a resolution of ∼ 0.3 c.u., while each pair of planes of the TOF has a resolution of ∼ 0.16 c.u
The analysis of the enormous amount of data being collected by the experiment permitted the publication of high statistics and very accurate measurement of the more important Cosmic Rays (CCR) components
Summary
9 layers of double sided Si microstrip tracker detectors. The particle rigidity, R, is measured over a lever arm up to 3 m, the maximum detectable rigidity is 2 TV for |Z| = 1 particles and 3.2 TV for |Z| ≥ 2 particles. Nitrogen flux in the range 2.2-3300 GV [4], based on the first 5 years of the collected data, corresponding to 2.2 million nitrogen nuclei;
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