AMS and The United States

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AMS and The United States

• U.S. Scientists are deeply interested in the AMS
  experiment and its extraordinary potential for
  discovery
• Major research Universities participating in AMS
  are (in alphabetical order)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Texas AM
• Yale
• However, the most important contributions of the
  U.S. are
• Launch AMS on the Shuttle
• Mount AMS on the International Space Station

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Scientific Potential of AMS

• 1) AMS would provide completely new
• and exciting research potential in
• Frontier areas of fundamental science
• The evolution of the Universe
• Major new technology for space
• 2) It is for this reason that so many scientists
• have worked for so long a time on AMS

3
Possibly new technological developments

• It should be mentioned that there is a
  possibility that AMS discoveries could lead to
  profoundly different new technologies.

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Role of AMS in the area of international
collaborationon major scientific projects