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Measurements of Atmospheric Antiprotons

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We measured atmospheric antiproton spectra in the energy range 0.2 to 3.4 GeV, at sea level and at balloon altitude in the atmospheric depth range 4.5 to 26 g/cm^2. The observed energy spectra, including our previous measurements at mountain altitude, were compared with estimated spectra calculated on various assumptions regarding the energy distribution of antiprotons that interacted with air nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509577,
  title  = {Measurements of Atmospheric Antiprotons},
  author = {K. Yamato and K. Abe and H. Fuke and S. Haino and Y. Makida and S. Matsuda and H. Matsumoto and J. W. Mitchell and A. A. Moiseev and J. Nishimura and M. Nozaki and S. Orito and J. F. Ormes and T. Sanuki and M. Sasaki and E. S. Seo and Y. Shikaze and R. E. Streitmatter and J. Suzuki and K. Tanaka and T. Yamagami and A. Yamamoto and T. Yoshida and K. Yoshimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509577},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Accepted for publication in PLB