A study of cosmic ray secondaries induced by the Mir space station using AMS-01
(2005) Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms — Vol. 234, n° 3, p. Pages 321-332 (2005)
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- The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high energy particle physics experiment that will study cosmic rays in the not, vert, similar100 MeV to 1 TeV range and will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) for at least 3 years. A first version of AMS-02, AMS-01, flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery from June 2 to June 12, 1998, and collected 108 cosmic ray triggers. Part of the Mir space station was within the AMS-01 field of view during the four day Mir docking phase of this flight. We have reconstructed an image of this part of the Mir space station using secondary π− and μ− emissions from primary cosmic rays interacting with Mir. This is the first time this reconstruction was performed in AMS-01, and it is important for understanding potential backgrounds during the 3 year AMS-02 mission.
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain6
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AMS-01 Collaboration, Aguilar, M., Cortina Gil, E., & et al. (2005). A study of cosmic ray secondaries induced by the Mir space station using AMS-01. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 234(3), Pages 321-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2005.01.015 (Original work published 2005)