The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS): search for antimatter and dark matter on the International Space Station

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Battiston, R [1 ]
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[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Dipartimento Fis & Sez, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
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10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00970-5
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a state of the art detector for the extraterrestrial study of antimatter, matter and missing matter. After a precursor flight on STS91 in may 1998, AMS will be installed on the International Space Station where it will operate for three year. In this paper the AMS experiment is described and its physics potential reviewed.
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