Eur Phys J C (2004) 33: s975-s977
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-03-1309-5

PS13 Particle Astrophysics (dark matter)

Indirect dark matter search with AMS-02

¹ Groupe d’Astroparticules de Montpellier, Universite Montpellier II, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX, France
² Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland

Received: 28 October 2003
Accepted: 4 November 2003
Published online: 7 November 2003

Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a high energy particle physics experiment in space to be placed on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2006 for a three years mission. The main physics goals in the astroparticle domain are the anti-matter and the dark matter searches. Some results of Monte Carlo feasibility study of the AMS detector sensitivity to indirect dark matter searches are presented.

PACS: 95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological) – 98.70.Sa Cosmic rays (including sources, origin, acceleration, and interactions)