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A Study of cosmic ray secondaries induced by the Mir Space Station using AMS-01 (2005)

Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high energy particle physics experiment that will study cosmic rays in the $\sim 100 \mathrm{MeV}$ to $1 \mathrm{TeV}$ 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 \emph{Discovery} from June 2 to June 12, 1998, and collected $10^8$ cosmic ray triggers. Part of the \emph{Mir} space station was within the AMS-01 field of view during the four day \emph{Mir} docking phase of this flight. We have reconstructed an image of this part of the \emph{Mir} space station using secondary $\pi^-$ and $\mu^-$ emissions from primary cosmic rays interacting with \emph{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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Download http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00023879/en/
Publisher HAL - CCSd - CNRS
Contributors Claudine Tur
Repository CCSd/HAL : e-articles server (based on gBUS) (France)
Keywords Physics/Astrophysics, Physics/High Energy Physics - Experiment, Sciences of the Universe/Astrophysics
Type ART_ACL
Coverage cosmic rays; spallation; AMS; Mir; space shuttle