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CERN Accelerating science

AMS

Following six successful years of operation, the AMS-02 experiment at the ISS recently successfuly performed a major upgrade, thus extending its lifetime and giving us more data to test theories for new physics.

 

AMS looks at Cosmic Galactic Rays

by Panos Charito

Recent results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) inaugurate a new era in Cosmic ray (CR) physics driven by high precision.