Professor Zuccon's research is centered on the search for new Physics in the cosmic rays. His recent work has mostly been associated with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 02, a particle physics detector installed on the International Space Station measuring the cosmic rays flux. He participated to the construction and qualification of the AMS-02 Silicon Tracker and he designed and implemented the silicon tracker data reconstruction software. He formed a new group at MIT with the goal of searching for signatures of the dark matter nature in the AMS-02 large statistic data. He is currently working on the measurement of the positron and anti-proton spectra.
