From carmen à physics.uottawa.ca  Mon Mar 17 10:18:07 2003
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:25:37 -0500
To: cap à physics.uottawa.ca
From: Carmen <carmen à physics.uottawa.ca>
Subject: Fwd: FYI to CAP-PPD RE: AMS at the ISS

This message is being forwarded on behalf of Manuella Vincter, PPD Chair
For the interest of the Particle Physics Division Community.

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:07 +0100
>From: Manuel Aguilar 
>To: Richard.Hemingway à cern.ch
>Subject: AMS at the ISS
>
>Dear Richard,
>
>I hope that everiyhing is well with you and that you are still enjoying
>the final phases of the analysis of the OPAL data.
>
>As I probably told you the last time we saw each other at CERN, my main
>scientific occupation these days is in the
>construction of the AMS-02 experiment (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) that
>will be installed in the ISS in the fall of
>2005 and which will be collecting data on charge cosmic rays for 3-5 years.
>
>As you certainly know, Canada is making a very important contribution to
>the construction of the ISS. In particular,
>Canada has already built the arm which will move AMS-02 from the shuttle
>to its final position at the ISS.
>
>To my surprise, in spite of this very visible contribution of Canada to
>the ISS, up to now there are no scientific groups expresing interest
>in the exploitation of what will be, by large, the most important
>scientific instrument on board of ISS. As you probably know,
>AMS-02 is the only large scale (7 Tons) experiment approved for the ISS.
>
>At AMS-02 we will be most pleased to explore the possibility of having
>canadians groups in our collaboration. Since my knowledge of the
>canadian community is very limited, I am sending this message to you,
>asking for advice. Are you aware of canadian groups which may be
>interested in joining AMS-02 ? If yes, how can we approach them ?
>
>Please let me know.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>With best regards,
>
>Manuel Aguilar-Ben�tez,
>CIEMAT, Madrid, SPAIN