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New AMS results to be presented at ICRC 2013 at Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

July 6th, 2013

We are all looking forward for the planned release of several new results from the AMS Collaboration at the International Cosmic Ray Conference 2013 in Brasil.

On July 8th, during a special ICRC session dedicated to AMS, the Collaboration will present new results on the precision measurement of: proton, helium, electron, positrons and Boron/Carbon as well as the positron to electron ratio.

The data correspond to 24 month of data taking, about 31 billions of trigger recorded by the experiment and transferred to ground.

Stay tuned on this page for more news.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for antimatter, dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux. The AMS-02 observations will help answer fundamental questions, such as "What makes up the universe's invisible mass?" or "What happened to the primordial antimatter?"

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Goals and characteristics of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

ANTIMATTER

It was very abundant at the beginning of time: where is today? The disappearance of antimatter is one of the big mysteries of our universe.

DARK MATTER

Mysterious type of particles 6 times more abundant than normal matter which shape gravitationally all galaxies and dominate the evolution of the visible universe.