SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR

University of Maryland
Computer & Space Science Building, Room 2400
4:30 PM Monday, 6 February
Coffee, Tea & Cookies 4:00-4:30 PM

Alexandre Malinin
IPST

Astroparticle physics with AMS experiment

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is an astroparticle physics experiment with a sensitivity to cosmic rays of up to TeV energies, to be installed on the International Space Station for a three year run. After briefly reviewing the results from the AMS-01 precursor mission on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998, I will describe the highlights of the AMS experiment's physics program: the search for primordial antimatter, the search for annihilation products of Galactic dark matter, and cosmic ray propagation studies.


Sponsored by: Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland. For information call John Paquette at (301) 405-6208 or go to the UMD Space Physics group seminar web site.

For free parking please park in lot DD or anywhere on levels 1-2 in lot B (the big parking garage) after 4:00 pm. Make sure that you park in a spot WITHOUT a parking meter. More parking information is at the seminar website.