In this lecture, Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Dr. Samuel C. C. Ting (MIT) presents the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). The AMS is a high precision general-purpose particle physics detector that has been constructed in the past twelve years by a group of 600 scientists and engineers from 16 countries for the operation on board of the International Space Station (ISS). In May 2011 AMS was launched with the last flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and installed on the ISS.
Since the first day AMS is fully operational and delivers high quality measurements of cosmic rays with a precision and a statistical volume never reached before. The status of the experiment and the perspectives for the coming years are presented.
Prof. Dr. Samuel C. C. Ting is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the principal investigator for the international $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment which was installed on the International Space Station on 19 May 2011.
24 июн 2014
