The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the international space station: Part II — Results from the first seven years

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a precision particle physics detector on the International Space Station (ISS) conducting a unique, long-duration mission of fundamental physics research in space. The physics objectives include the precise studies of the origin of dark matter, antimatter, and cosmic rays as well as the exploration of new phenomena. Following a 16-year period of construction and testing, and a precursor flight on the Space Shuttle, AMS was installed on the ISS on May 19, 2011. In this report we present results based on 120 billion charged cosmic ray events up to multi-TeV energies. This includes the fluxes of positrons, electrons, antiprotons, protons, and nuclei. These results provide unexpected information, which cannot be explained by the current theoretical models. The accuracy and characteristics of the data, simultaneously from many different types of cosmic rays, provide unique input to the understanding of origins, acceleration, and propagation of cosmic rays.</p

Direct search for light gluinos

We present the results for a direct search for light gluinos through the appearance of eta --> 3 pi0 with high transverse momentum in the vacuum tank of the NA48 experiment at CERN. We find one event within a lifetime range of 10^-9 – 10^-3 s and another one between 10^-10 – 10^-9 s. Both events are consistent with the expected background from neutrons in the beam, produced by 450 GeV protons impinging on the Be targets, which interact with the residual air in the tank. From these data we give limits on the production of the hypothetical gg~ bound state, the R0 hadron, and its R0 --> eta gamma~ decay in the R0 mass range between 1 and 5 GeV

Measurement of the decay rate and form factor parameter alpha(K)* in the decay KL -> e+ e- gamma

The decay rate of the neutral K meson K_L --> e+ e- gamma has been measured with the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS. A total of 6864 events has been observed with an estimated background of 10 events. The branching ratio is Gamma(K_L --> e+ e- gamma)/ Gamma(K_L --> all) = (1.06 +- 0.02 stat +- 0.02 sys +- 0.04 calc) * 10^-5. The parameter alphaK* describing the relative strength of the two contributing amplitudes to this decay through intermediate pseudoscalar or vector mesons was measured to be alphaK* = (-0.36 +- 0.06 stat +- 0.02 sys)