Background Materials
Background in Cosmic Rays
MasterClass Presentation – Matteo Palermo
What are Cosmic Rays? Where do they come from, and how do we detect them?
In this presentation, you will learn about Dark Matter and Cosmic Rays, and the AMS-02 experiment: the bigger particle space detector, currently on board the ISS.
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Background in Dark Matter
MasterClass Presentation – Sven Vahsen
This presentation for MasterClass, will introduce you to the topic of Dark Matter.
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Background in Solar Activity
This presentation describes the sun, the solar cycle and how it affects cosmic ray activity with long term solar modulation.
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Solar Modulation with AMS – 02
This presentation will introduce you to how to use measurements at different energies to investigate whether solar modulation affects particles of all energies in the same way or not.
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Introduction to the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology
Masterclass presentation by Jason Kumar
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