Speaker
Melanie Heil
(Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
Description
On May 19th 2011 the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 02 (AMS-02) was mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). Since then the detector is measuring the spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs) and gamma rays with unpreceded accuracy at an unpreceded rate. AMS-02 is able to measure charged CRs up to Iron and up to TeV energies. The first task of analysis is the calibration of the detector in space. This talk focuses on approaches of the calibration for the transition radiation detector (TRD), which was mainly build in Germany (RWTH Aachen, KIT Karlsruhe).
Primary author
Melanie Heil
(Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
