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Search for antideuterons and strangelets in cosmic rays with AMS-01

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Henning, Reyco, 1975-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Ulrich J. Becker.
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Abstract
AMS (the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) is a high-energy particle detector in space. An engineer- ing version of AMS, AMS-01, flew on the space shuttle Discovery for ten days in June 1998 and collected 108 cosmic ray events. This thesis extends the previous results of the AMS-01 flight by performing a search for antideuterons (⁻D) in cosmic rays. Antideuterons in cosmic rays could be a signal for neutralino dark matter annihilation, primordial black hole evaporation and other interesting processes. No DÌ„ nuclei were found, and a flux limit is estimated. We also present the results of preliminary strangelet search. Some interesting effects of the Mir space station on AMS-01 when Discovery was docked with Mir are also discussed.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, February 2004.
 
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119).
 
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2004
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30117
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.

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