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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
Usoskin, I.; Laitinen, T.; Valtonen, E. +199 more
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a large acceptance ( 0.65 sr m 2) detector designed to operate in the International Space Station (ISS) for three years. The purposes of the experiment are to search for cosmic antimatter and dark matter and to study the composition and energy spectrum of the primary cosmic rays. A "scaled-down" …
PICsIT: a position sensitive detector for space applications
Di Cocco, G.; Malaguti, G.; Schiavone, F. +8 more
Pixellated Imaging CsI Telescope (PICsIT) is the high energy detector plane of Imager on Board INTEGRAL Satellite (IBIS), one of the main instruments on board the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite that will be launched in the year 2001. It consists of 4096 CsI(Tl) individual detector elements and operates in the …