Category Archives: AMS

What is AMS?

Posted on March 31, 2008 by PlatoHagel

General objectives:To collect precision cosmic ray data at high energies, including 10^10 protons; to discover or rule out certain particles as explanations for dark matter; to study cosmic ray propagation in the galaxy; to search for exotic particles or spectral … Continue reading →

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PHENIX Muon Spectrometers

Posted on October 6, 2007 by PlatoHagel

At the RHIC beamline at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the three-story-tall PHENIX muon spectrometers, designed and built by Los Alamos scientists in collaboration with other scientists from around the world, witness collisions between gold ions (red/yellow, approaching from the right) and … Continue reading →

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