Status of the AMS Experiment

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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a general purpose high energy particle detector which will be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of 2010 - beginning of 2011 to conduct a unique 10 to 18 year mission of fundamental physics research in space.

• Among the physics objectives of AMS are a search for an understanding of Dark Matter, Antimatter, the origin of cosmic rays and the exploration of new physics phenomena not possible to study from ground based experiments.
• This article reviews the status of the AMS-02 detector construction, detector calibration results as well as AMS physics potential for new phenomena searches.