The AMS experiment and its latest results and upgrades

Yi Yang^1*

¹Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

* Presenter:Yi Yang, email:yiyang0429@gmail.com

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), led by the Nobel Prize laureate Professor Samuel C. C. Ting, is an international collaborative research project in experimental high energy physics. AMS is a general purpose particle detector mounted on the International Space Station (ISS) since May 19 2011 for taking high energy cosmic ray data, and AMS-02 is expected to operate until the end of ISS. The main purpose of the AMS experiment is to collect and to measure the relevant high energy particles originating from deep space, such as electrons, positrons, protons, anti-protons, and nuclei. To this end, we might be able to explain some of the most important mysteries of Universe, namely, the asymmetry in the ratio of matter and anti-matter and the origin of dark matter. I will introduce the AMS-02 experiment and present its latest results, as well as the ongoing upgrades.  

Keywords: Cosmic ray, AMS