Recent results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the STS-91

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2001-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101547v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 11 figures, Invited talk at 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Warsaw, Poland, 16-23 July 2000

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a state of the art detector for the extraterrestrial study of matter, antimatter and missing matter. During the ten days long STS-91 precursor flight in may 1998 AMS collected nearly 100 millions of Cosmic Rays on Low Earth Orbit, measuring with high accuracy their composition. We present results on the flux of proton, electron, positron and helium particles in the rigidity region 0.1 to 200 GV . Analysis of the under cutoff spectra indicates the existence of a new type of belts containing high energy particles and characterized by a dominance of positrons versus electrons.

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