Calibration and performance of the AMS-02 time of flight detector in space

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 743, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-29

  Bindi, V ^a   Chen, G M ^b   Chen, H S ^b   Choumilov, E ^c   Choutko, V ^c   Contin, A ^d,e   Lebedev, A ^c   Lu, Y S ^b   Masi, N ^d,e   Oliva, A ^f   Palmonari, F ^d,e   Quadrani, L ^d,e   Yan, Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

AMS; Calibration; Charge; Scintillator; TOF; Velocity

Indexed keywords

AMS; CALIBRATION METHOD; CHARGE; HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE DETECTORS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT DETECTORS; TOF;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; COSMIC RAYS; PHOSPHORS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; VELOCITY;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84893341704     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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