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The electrically charged cosmic rays contain very important information about the mechanisms of stars and galaxies and about primordial universe which cannot be found elsewhere. The AMS experiment aims at searching for primordial antimatter, non-baryonic dark matter, and at measuring with high statistics and high accuracy the electrically charged cosmic ray particles and light nuclei in the extraterrestrial space beyond the atmosphere. AMS is the first magnetic spectrometer which will be flown in space. It will be installed for 3 years on the international space station (ISS) in 2003. A test flight with the space shuttle DISCOVERY took place in June 1998 with a first detector and gave many results: best limit on the existence of antinuclei, fluxes of protons, leptons, and helium nuclei above the geomagnetic threshold, existence of a secondary flux below the geomagnetic threshold. These results are described below. The physics goal and perspectives for AMS on the space station with an improved detector are described as well
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Vialle, J.P. (2001). Physics of Charged Cosmic Rays with the AMS Experiment. In: De Vega, H.J., Khalatnikov, I.M., SÃ nchez, N.G. (eds) Phase Transitions in the Early Universe: Theory and Observations. NATO Science Series, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0997-3_25
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