Experience in the assembly of the large area silicon tracker for the AMS experiment

被引:1
作者
Ionica, M
机构
[1] IMT Bucharest, R-72996 Bucharest, Romania
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
关键词
silicon sensors; tracking and position-sensitive detectors; astroparticle physics;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2003.08.036
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), installed on the International Space Station will provide precise measurements of the cosmic ray spectra in the GeV to TeV energy range, and will search for cosmological antimatter and dark matter. A first version of the detector was operated successfully during a precursor flight on the space shuttle Discovery in June 1998 (STS-91). The magnetic spectrometer uses a large area (7.2 m(2)) silicon microstrip detector providing 10 pm spatial resolution for the bending coordinate. Here we briefly report on the design of the AMS tracker, its construction status and some innovative assembly techniques we have developed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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