• The first results from AMS (official paper)

    • Comments on the AMS paper and hype

  • Strassler
  • Resonaances
  • Starts with a Bang
  • Galileo's pendulum

    • Other cosmic-ray experiments

  • PAMELA was launched in 2006 on a Russian satellite. The Magnetic Spectrometer can detect electrons and positrons.

  • Fermi Gamma-ray telescope was launched in June 2008. One of its instruments is the Large-Area Telescope (LAT); perhaps you'd like to read a technical description of LAT. If you want to learn how this gamma-ray telescope can be used to detect electrons and positrons, read Measurement of separate cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope.