1. Search for antihelium in cosmic rays
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Z.R. Dong, S. Bizzaglia, G. Ambrosi, J. Casaus, M. Pimenta, T. S. Dai, Samuel C.C. Ting, L. Djambazov, B.C. Wang, G. Molinari, A. Klimentov, B. Bertucci, S. X. Wu, R. Pilastrini, G. Lamanna, L.G. Yan, R. Siedling, J. Favier, Philipp Azzarello, J. J. Torsti, Antonino Zichichi, A. Hasan, Mauro Menichelli, L. Ao, Inkyu Park, J.P. Vialle, M. Steuer, P.C. Xia, Peter H. Fisher, Ilya Usoskin, P. G. Rancoita, Jing Wang, F. Palmonari, J. Isbert, M. Ribordy, G. Boella, H. von Gunten, P. Crespo, W. J. Burger, N. Fouque, R. Ionica, Federico Cindolo, J.P. Richeux, R. Cavalletti, D.X. Zhao, U. Roeser, N.A. Chernoplekov, C. G. Yang, Nicolas Produit, M. Buenerd, A. Cotta-Ramusino, R. Flaminio, J. P. Da Cunha, Anselmo Margotti, D. Rapin, V. Plyaskin, W. Kim, Roberto Battiston, G.Y. Zhu, W.Z. Zhu, G. Fluegge, G. Bruni, G. Viertel, P. Levtchenko, E. Fiandrini, G. Laurenti, K. Luebelsmeyer, S. Waldmeier Wicki, S.C. Lee, Yu. Galaktionov, F. Massera, D. Vité, J. Ulbricht, A. Chiarini, Hao Zhang, H. S. Chen, C. Rossin, G. Pancaldi, Felicitas Pauss, S. Recupero, Ciaran Williams, R. Kossakowski, W. Karpinski, J. Alcaraz, F. Barao, P. Yeh, E. Emonet, L.K. Ding, H.T. Liu, E. P. Velikhov, G. Torromeo, M. Basile, G.S. Sun, A. Pevsner, J.L. Yan, X. D. Cai, L. Baldini, F. Mezzanotte, C.L. Liu, L. Bellagamba, S. Blasko, K. Hangarter, J. Berdugo, Adrian Biland, G. Barbier, J. Vandenhirtz, V. Hermel, A. Arefiev, E. Prati, Jose Maria Kenny, R. R. McNeil, T.G. Guzik, B. Meillon, W.K. Gu, G. Kenney, I. D'Antone, J.P. Wefel, Markus Cristinziani, T. Eronen, R. Becker, Y.L. Chuang, P. Bene, B. Alpat, D. Luckey, E. Riihonen, A. Mihul, M. Jongmanns, C.C. Feng, D. Casadei, W. Wallraff, J. Krieger, H.L. Zhuang, G. Castellini, Massimo Gervasi, Zhuoxiang Ren, G. Schwering, W. Hungerford, A. Papi, Timo Laitinen, D. Santos, F. Tenbusch, B. Verlaat, P. Berges, Raffaele Mezzenga, S. Urpo, Ari Mujunen, G. Laborie, V. Shoutko, M. Pauluzzi, Y. S. Lu, G.P. Barreira, Yun Wang, V. Commichau, J. Truemper, A. Pesci, D. Ren, M. Capell, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, F. Vezzu, P. Cannarsa, C. Camps, T.P. Li, M. Ionica, H. Postema, A. Contin, M. Yang, E. Babucci, U. Becker, A. Lebedev, Dong-Chul Son, P. Giusti, I. Lopes, E. Perrin, F. J. Eppling, D. Alvisi, G. Lu, F. Raupach, C. Maña, P. Extermann, S. M. Ting, H. Hofer, G. Esposito, I. Vetlitsky, G. Sartorelli, M. Lolli, G. Maehlum, E.A. Werner, Fabio Finelli, Z.G. Chen, Werner Lustermann, Giuseppe Levi, X. W. Tang, Tao Song, M. Bourquin, V. Pojidaev, E. Shoumilov, H. Suter, J. D. Burger, Roald Z. Sagdeev, A. Mourao, J. Ritakari, Y. H. Chang, D. Barancourt, N. Dinu, H. Anderhub, Tzihong Chiueh, M. A. Huang, Jorge Dias de Deus, F. Mayet, A. Schultz von Dratzig, Alcaraz, J, Alvisi, D, Alpat, B, Ambrosi, G, Anderhub, H, Ao, L, Arefiev, A, Azzarello, P, Babucci, E, Baldini, L, Basile, M, Barancourt, D, Barao, F, Barbier, G, Barreira, G, Battiston, R, Becker, R, Becker, U, Bellagamba, L, Béné, P, Berdugo, J, Berges, P, Bertucci, B, Biland, A, Bizzaglia, S, Blasko, S, Boella, G, Bourquin, M, Bruni, G, Buenerd, M, Burger, J, Burger, W, Cai, X, Cavalletti, R, Camps, C, Cannarsa, P, Capell, M, Casadei, D, Casaus, J, Castellini, G, Chang, Y, Chen, H, Chen, Z, Chernoplekov, N, Chiarini, A, Chiueh, T, Chuang, Y, Cindolo, F, Commichau, V, Contin, A, Cotta Ramusino, A, Crespo, P, Cristinziani, M, Dacunha, J, Dai, T, Deus, J, Ding, L, Dinu, N, Djambazov, L, D'Antone, I, Dong, Z, Emonet, P, Eppling, F, Eronen, T, Esposito, G, Extermann, P, Favier, J, Feng, C, Fiandrini, E, Finelli, F, Fisher, P, Flaminio, R, Fluegge, G, Fouque, N, Galaktionov, Y, Gervasi, M, Giusti, P, Gu, W, Guzik, T, Hangarter, K, Hasan, A, Hermel, V, Hofer, H, Huang, M, Hungerford, W, Ionica, M, Ionica, R, Isbert, J, Jongmanns, M, Karpinski, W, Kenney, G, Kenny, J, Kim, W, Klimentov, A, Krieger, J, Kossakowski, R, Koutsenko, V, Laborie, G, Laitinen, T, Lamanna, G, Laurenti, G, Lebedev, A, Lee, S, Levi, G, Levtchenko, P, Li, T, Liu, C, Liu, H, Lolli, M, Lopes, I, Lu, G, Lu, Y, Lübelsmeyer, K, Luckey, D, Lustermann, W, Maehlum, G, Maña, C, Margotti, A, Massera, F, Mayet, F, Mcneil, R, Meillon, B, Menichelli, M, Mezzanotte, F, Mezzenga, R, Mihul, A, Molinari, G, Mourao, A, Mujunen, A, Palmonari, F, Pancaldi, G, Papi, A, Park, I, Pauluzzi, M, Pauss, F, Perrin, E, Pesci, A, Pevsner, A, Pilastrini, R, Pimenta, M, Plyaskin, V, Pojidaev, V, Postema, H, Prati, E, Produit, N, Rancoita, P, Rapin, D, Raupach, F, Recupero, S, Ren, D, Ren, Z, Ribordy, M, Richeux, J, Riihonen, E, Ritakari, J, Roeser, U, Roissin, C, Sagdeev, R, Santos, D, Sartorelli, G, Schultzvondratzig, A, Schwering, G, Shoutko, V, Shoumilov, E, Siedling, R, Son, D, Song, T, Steuer, M, Sun, G, Suter, H, Tang, X, Ting, S, Tenbusch, F, Torromeo, G, Torsti, J, Trümper, J, Ulbricht, J, Urpo, S, Usoskin, I, Valtonen, E, Vandenhirtz, J, Velikhov, E, Verlaat, B, Vetlitsky, I, Vezzu, F, Vialle, J, Viertel, G, Vité, D, Vongunten, H, Waldmeierwicki, S, Wallraff, W, Wang, B, Wang, J, Wang, Y, Wefel, J, Werner, E, Williams, C, Wu, S, Xia, P, Yan, J, Yan, L, Yang, C, Yang, M, Yeh, P, Zhang, H, Zhao, D, Zhu, G, Zhu, W, Zhuang, H, Zichichi, A, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and AMS
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Astrophysics and Astronomy ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Space Shuttle ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO] ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA ,Rigidity (electromagnetism) ,0103 physical sciences ,Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ,010306 general physics ,Helium ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astrophysics (astro-ph) ,Astronomy ,Flux ratio ,FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE ,chemistry ,Cosmic rays: anti-helium ,FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE - Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was flown on the space shuttle Discovery during flight STS-91 in a 51.7 degree orbit at altitudes between 320 and 390 km. A total of 2.86 * 10^6 helium nuclei were observed in the rigidity range 1 to 140 GV. No antihelium nuclei were detected at any rigidity. An upper limit on the flux ratio of antihelium to helium of < 1.1 * 10^-6 is obtained., 18 pages, Latex, 9 .eps figures
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- 2000