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The cosmic ray electron and positron spectra measured by AMS-02

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-08-15 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The AMS-02 detector is operating on the International Space Station since May 2011. More than 30 billion events have been collected by the instrument in the first two years of data taking. A precision measurement of the positron fraction and of the positron flux in primary cosmic rays up to 350 GeV, of the electron flux up to 500 GeV and of the combined electron plus positron flux up to 700 GeV are presented. The separate and combined electron and positron fluxes are preliminary and represent work in progress. Systematic uncertainties must still be investigated further.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0437,
  title  = {The cosmic ray electron and positron spectra measured by AMS-02},
  author = {Claudio Corti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0437},
  year   = {2019}
}

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to appear in the proceedings of The 10th International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2013)