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High-energy gamma-ray detection with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board the International Space Station

Lamanna, 2002

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Lamanna G
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Nuclear Physics B-Proceedings Supplements

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a large acceptance, superconducting magnetic spectrometer designed to search for anti-matter and to study, with high accuracy, the origin of dark-matter and the composition of cosmic rays. The results of a Monte Carlo (MC) …
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