Computing Strategy of the AMS Experiment

[摘要] The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a high energy physics experiment operating on board of the International Space Station (ISS). The detector was installed on ISS in May 2011 and is expected to continuously take cosmic rays data through Year 2024 and beyond. The computing strategy of the AMS experiment is discussed in the paper, including software design, data processing, data reconstruction and simulation, detector performance evaluation, and data production overview. In particular, parallelization of reconstruction and simulation of AMS data is discussed in detail.

[发布机构] Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge; MA; 02139, United States^1;Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing; 100191, China^2

[效力级别] 计算机科学 [学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）

[关键词] Alpha magnetic spectrometers;Computing strategies;Data production;Data reconstruction;Detector performance;High energy physics experiments;International Space stations;Parallelizations