Measurement of the cosmic (e+ + e-) flux from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on the International Space Station
Abstract:
The measurement of cosmic ray positrons and electrons (e+/-) provides fundamental information about the origin of cosmic rays, and may disclose evidence for Dark Matter activity in the Galaxy. In this thesis, the 10.6 million e+/- events collected by the AMS-02 detector on the International Space Station in the first 30 months of data taking have been used to measure the (e+ + e-) flux from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with unprecedented precision. No structures have been observed in the resulting flux.
| Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT | Fakultät für Physik – Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP) |
| Publikationstyp | Hochschulschrift |
| Publikationsjahr | 2014 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Identifikator | urn:nbn:de:swb:90-455295 KITopen-ID: 1000045529 |
| Verlag | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) |
| Art der Arbeit | Dissertation |
| Fakultät | Fakultät für Physik (PHYSIK) |
| Institut | Fakultät für Physik – Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP) |
| Prüfungsdaten | 14.11.2014 |
| Schlagwörter | AMS, Dark Matter, Cosmic Rays, Electrons, Positrons |
| Referent/Betreuer | Boer, W. de |