AMS: issues and prospects

9 mars 2010, 09:30 → 10 mars 2010, 18:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium Marcel Vivargent (LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux)

Aurélien Barrau, Corinne Goy (LAPP), David Maurin (LPNHE), Laurent Derome (LPSC), Pierre Salati (LAPTH), Sylvie Rosier Lees (LAPP)

AMS will be launched in the second half of 2010 and installed on the International Space Station. Thanks to its ability to identify and to measure simultaneously fluxes of protons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, gamma rays and nuclei in a large acceptance detector and on an extended energy range, AMS will improve the knowledge of standard mechanisms governing the propagation of cosmic rays and will probe the existence of new physics, such as the nature of Dark Matter.