on Thursday, 17 January 2013, 15:00 in the lecture theatre of the Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich
"The AMS Experiment on the International Space Station"
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a high precision general-purpose particle physics detector that has been constructed in the past twelve years by a group of 600 scientists and engineers from 16 countries for the operation on board of the International Space Station (ISS). In May 2011 AMS was launched with the last flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and installed on the ISS. More: "The AMS Experiment on the International Space Station" …