The internal alignment and position resolution of the AMS-02 silicon tracker determined with cosmic-ray muons

Alpat, B.; Ambrosi, G.; Azzarello, Ph.; Battiston, R.; Bertucci, B.; Bourquin, Maurice; Burger, W.J.; Cadoux, Franck; Da Silva Costa, Carlos; Choutko, V.; Duranti, M.; Fiandrini, E.; Haas, Daniel; Haino, S.; Ionica, M.; Ionica, R.; Leluc, Catherine; Menichelli, M.; Natale, S.; Oliva, A.; Paniccia, Mercedes; Perrin, Eric; Pohl, Martin; Rapin, Divic Jean; Tomassetti, N.; Zuccon, P.; Zurbach, C.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.11.065

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English

The internal alignment and position resolution of the AMS-02 silicon tracker determined with cosmic-ray muons

Published inNuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, vol. 613, no. 2, p. 207-217

Publication date2010

Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a large acceptance cosmic-ray detector View the MathML source(0.5m2sr) designed to operate at an altitude of 400 km on the International Space Station. The AMS-02 silicon tracker contains 2264 silicon microstrip sensors (total active area View the MathML source6.75m2). The internal alignment parameters of the assembled tracker have been determined on the ground with cosmic-ray muons. The alignment procedure is described and results for the alignment precision and position resolution are reported.

Keywords

Charged particle spectrometers
Tracking and position sensitive detectors
Cosmic-ray detectors

Affiliation entities

Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire

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ALPAT, B. et al. The internal alignment and position resolution of the AMS-02 silicon tracker determined with cosmic-ray muons. In: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2010, vol. 613, n° 2, p. 207–217. doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.11.065

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PID : unige:41452
DOI : 10.1016/j.nima.2009.11.065

Additional URL for this publicationhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168900209022803

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