Abstract : A prototype of the AMS Cherenkov imager (RICH) has been tested at CERN by means of a low intensity 20 GeV/c per nucleon ion beam obtained by fragmentation of a primary beam of Pb ions. Data have been collected with a single beam setting, over the range of nuclear charges 2
M. Buenerd, P. Aguayo, M. Aguilar Benitez, L. Arruda, F. Barao, et al.. The AMS-02 RICH imager prototype - In-Beam tests with 20 GeV/c per nucleon ions. International Cosmic Ray Conference 28 ICRC 2003, Jul 2003, Tsukuba, Japan. pp.2157-2160. ⟨in2p3-00020079⟩