Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Dark matter detective arrives at ESTEC
- ESA - Human Spaceflight and Exploration
"One of the most exciting scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), arrived at ESA’s Test Centre in the Netherlands for testing before being launched on the Space Shuttle to the ISS this July."
Made and assembled in Switzerland…
The AMS detector was built at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMQLBNEG5G_index_0.html
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090815
In Search of Antimatter Galaxies - NASA
"An act of Congress in 2008 added another flight to the schedule near the end of the program.
Currently scheduled for 2010, this extra flight of the shuttle is going to launch a hunt for antimatter galaxies.
The device that does the actual hunting is called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer--or AMS for short. It's a $1.5 billion cosmic ray detector that the shuttle will deliver to the ISS."
MIT physics professor Samuel Ting, 1976 Nobel Laureate and leader of the AMS team.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/14aug_ams.htm?list1073247
アルファ磁気分光計Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
をISSに持ってく話がここに来て あるような？？^_^;)
ちゃんと調整はしているのだった・・・
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090430
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS
Samuel Ting: So my main job at this moment is to make sure the final phase of the assembly of the detector that nothing goes wrong. The other things are in the hand of God or the hand of Congress.
Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the MIT, is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to operate on the ISS.
The US space agency (Nasa) is still awaiting funding to fly the mission, which was cut from the space shuttles' manifest following the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to retire the fleet in 2010 once the station was finished.
Professor Ting spoke with reporter Irene Klotz from Geneva, where he is overseeing the final checkout of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Cern."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
"サミュエル・ティン（Samuel 丁肇中、ピンイン：Dīng Zhàozhōng、ウェード式：Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹、1936年 - ）はミシガン生まれの中国系アメリカ人。バートン・リヒターと共にジェイプサイ中間子の発見により1976年にノーベル物理学賞を受賞した"- Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
"Samuel Ting: Yeah. We know antimatter doesn't exist in our galaxy, because if it existed it would collide with matter and would produce sharp X-rays. The fact that we don't see these sharp X-rays means it doesn't exist in our galaxy.
But the Universe has 100 million galaxies, so you really need to do a very sensitive, very careful search for this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090513
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS 29 April 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8022645.stm
旧聞2008
NASA rejects non-Shuttle answers to stranded ISS instrument
"The US Congress has directed NASA to find a way to transport the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) detector to the ISS despite the fact that it is not scheduled to fly on any of the 10 remaining ISS missions to be carried out by the Space Shuttle fleet before its retirement. "
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/04/09/222840/nasa-rejects-non-shuttle-answers-to-stranded-iss-instrument.html
$1.5 billion device --Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/resources/gug/040809/DOE_ProgramUpdate_kt.pdf
$1 billion Columbus laboratory
旧聞2007/12/01/
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind - washingtonpost.com
"Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120100760.html
Will NASA launch Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer? - iTWire
"Called “the most expensive scientific experiments ever built,”
$1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) may end up in storage and never get the chance to search the universe for antimatter."
only a prototype AMS (the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Investigation) was able to get into space when it went onboard space shuttle Discovery and the STS-91 mission in 1998, the final space shuttle mission to the Russian Mir space station. After the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed in 2003, the AMS mission was cancelled.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15592/1102/
$1.5 billion device --Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/resources/gug/040809/DOE_ProgramUpdate_kt.pdf
the AMS Detector, which is expected to be at the Kennedy Space Center in December 2008.
the cosmic ray detector -- called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) -- would look for evidence of how the universe formed.
"The credibility of the United States is at stake here, because NASA made a commitment to bring Columbus and AMS to the space station," said Samuel C.C. Ting, a Nobel laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who conceived the project in 1994 and drew in collaborators from 60 institutes in 16 nations to build and fund it. "After all this work, it would be a terrible blow if the instrument cannot be used."
"NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin has been firm in saying that the shuttles will be retired in 2010 -- in large part because NASA needs the funds to pay for the new spacecraft -- and that finishing assembly of the station, at an estimated cost of $100 billion over two decades, is the top priority for the remaining shuttle missions. Griffin initiated a study last year into alternative ways to deliver the AMS to the station, but they proved to be prohibitively expensive."
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120100760.html
