[astroseminar at Sapienza] 26/10/2017 at 16:30: Sam Ting (SEMINARIO GENERALE)

[Elia Battistelli]

GENERAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT

Title: Latest Results from AMS on the International Space Station
Speaker: Prof. Sam Ting
Institute: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2017
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Aula Conversi, Marconi Building, Dept. of Physics, Sapienza 
University


DESCRIPTION:

In six years on the Space Station, AMS has collected more than one 
hundred billion cosmic rays up to multi-TeV energies.  The latest 
results will be presented.

Samuel Chao Chung Ting Professor at MIT and CERN, received the Nobel 
Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/psi 
particle.
He is the principal investigator for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a 
large international collaboration with a leading Italian (INFN, ASI,  
Universities) participation. AMS-02 was installed on the International 
Space Station on 19 May 2011 and it is taking data since.

web: https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=14343
      
http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/fisica/archivionotizie/latest-results-ams-international-space-station