Charge determination of nuclei with the AMS-02 silicon tracker
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The silicon tracker of the AMS-02 detector measures the trajectory in three dimensions of electrons, protons and nuclei to high precision in a dipole magnetic field and thus measures their rigidity (momentum over charge) and the sign of their charge. In addition, it measures the specific energy loss of charged particles to determine the charge magnitude. Ladders from the AMS-02 tracker have been exposed to ion beams at CERN and GSI to study their response to nuclei from helium up to the iron group. The longest ladder, View the MathML source, verified in the tests contains 12 sensors. Good charge resolution is observed up to iron.
- University of Geneva Switzerland
- Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
- University of Trento Italy
- RWTH Aachen University Germany
- Institute of Space Science Romania
Charge of nuclei, Engineering, Energy loss, AMS-02, Silicon tracker, info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/500.2, ddc: ddc:500.2
Charge of nuclei, Engineering, Energy loss, AMS-02, Silicon tracker, info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/500.2, ddc: ddc:500.2
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