A proposal for Italy contribution to the AMS Ground Segment

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A proposal for Italy contribution to the AMS
Ground Segment

• R. Battiston
• CERN 28/5/01

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• The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS
  (AMS-02) is supported in Italy by the Italian
  Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the
  Italian Space Agency (ASI)
• ASI and INFN have agreed to collaborate to
  contribute to the setting up of the AMS ground
  segment following what will be agreed and
  planned by the AMS Collaboration

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Italian participation to AMS
7 groups, 35 physicsts students, PhDs.
Strong interest in AMS data both for
online/offline instruments calibration and
monitoring and Science Bologna (INFN,
University) ToF and RICH Milano (INFN,
University) Data handling Perugia
(INFN,University) Tracker and Star
Tracker Pisa (INFN, University)
Calorimeter Rome (INFN, University) TRT Siena
(INFN, University) Calorimeter Trieste
(University) Star Tracker ASI
ACOP (Astronaut Control
Operation Payload)
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ACOP (Astronaut Control Operation Payload)
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Italian groups have a
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ASI Scientific Data Center Director P. Giommi
Located at 20 min from Rome Central Railway
Station (train) Hosted by ESRIN (ESA), CERN like
environment Access to all public space data
base, particularly useful for special AMS
analyses (e.g. high energy photons)
156 Mb link to GARR
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Proposed contribution of ASI to AMS-02 Data
Processing
Hardware 1) Data archiving O(100 Tb)
(ASDC) 2) Data access online (10 Tb) restricted
for AMS users (ASDC) 3) Support to AMS MC
production ( 100, 2 GHz PC)
(AMS) Software 4) Access to international data
base from other experiments (EGRET, Integral,
Swift, XMM, Chandra.) (ASDC) Personnel to
support 1) 2) and 4) at ASI ASDC and/or CERN
and 3) at AMS (INFN and/or CERN)
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Additional support of Asi SDC for AMS-02
Online documentation, software and data files
databases, archived or available online to
the Collaboration Development of user defined
software tools, real-time information for ?
AMS or ? AMS Assistance and tutorial on use
of multi wavelength data base for AMS data
analysis AMS scientists can be hosted for
periods at ASDC to work on the data.
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Proposed contribution of INFN to AMS-02 Data
Processing

• Hardware
• AMS Data Station at CERN
• Participation to the AMS Science Center at CERN
  
• GARR High Bandwidth Networking (CERNlt-gtItaly)
• Software
• 3) Operation of the MC PC farm(s) for MC Event
  Production
• 4) Sub-detector calibration and monitoring

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Requests to ASI and INFN will start this year
To ASI request within two months (FY 2001)
To INFN request by july 1999 (next FY jan.
to dec. 2002)
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In order to proceed further with the requests we
need a final agreement on the documents which
describes the overall plan for the AMS ground
segment, including cost sharing.
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