Construction and performance of the AMS-02 transition radiation detector for the International Space Station

2006 ◽  
Vol 563 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-345
Author(s):  
Francesca R. Spada
Keyword(s):  
International Space Station ◽  
Transition Radiation ◽  
Radiation Detector ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Transition Radiation Detector ◽  
International Space ◽  
And Performance

THE AMS TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTOR

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) ◽  
pp. 6742-6744
Author(s):  
FRANCESCA R. SPADA
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Separation Factor ◽  
Transition Radiation ◽  
Radiation Detector ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Dark Matter Annihilation ◽  
Transition Radiation Detector ◽  
International Space ◽  
Positron Spectrum ◽  
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) will fly during three years on the International Space Station performing spectroscopy of cosmic particles, allowing the direct search of antimatter and the indirect search of dark matter. Annihilation of supersymmetric dark matter candidates could produce an excess in the 10 – 300 GeV region of the positron spectrum. An overall 10-6 separation factor for positrons from the more abundant protons is required to detect the signal. A Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) has been designed to achieve these physics goal.

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