Seminari Generali

Latest Results from AMS on the International Space Station

by Prof. Sam Ting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

Europe/Rome
Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G.Marconi)

Aula Conversi

Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G.Marconi

Description
In six years on the Space Station, AMS has collected more than one hundred billion cosmic rays up to multi-TeV energies. The latest results will be presented. Samuel Chao Chung Ting Professor at MIT and CERN, received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/psi particle. He is the principal investigator for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a large international collaboration with a leading Italian (INFN, ASI, Universities) participation. AMS-02 was installed on the International Space Station on 19 May 2011 and it is taking data since.