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Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) inside the heliosphere are affected by magnetic turbulence and Solar wind disturbances which result in the so-called solar modulation effect. To investigate this phenomenon, we have performed a data-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-13 Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Federico Donnini , Emanuele Fiandrini , Maura Graziani , Behrouz Khiali , Alejandro Reina Conde

The solar modulation effect of Galactic cosmic rays is a time-dependent phenomenon that is caused by the transport of these particles through the magnetized plasma of the heliosphere. Using a data-driven model of cosmic-ray transport in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Miguel Orcinha , Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci

Isotropic diffusion is a key assumption in many models of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. We find that simulation results imply a critical energy of ~10-1000~GeV above which electrons and positrons can spend their entire lives in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Matthew D. Kistler , Hasan Yuksel , Alexander Friedland

AMS-02 is a wide acceptance high-energy physics experiment installed on the International Space Station in May 2011 and operating continuously since then. Using the largest number of detected particles in space of any space-borne…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 S. Della Torre , AMS-02 Collaboration

High energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons, during propagation in the Galaxy, mainly lose energy through either the inverse Compton scattering (ICS) off of the interstellar radiation field (ISRF) or emitting synchrotron radiation in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Maryam Tavakoli

We revisit the model proposed earlier to account for the observed increase in the positron fraction in cosmic rays with increasing energy, in the light of new data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment. The model accounts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

In recent years, the increasing precision of direct cosmic rays measurements opened the door to indirect searches of dark matter with high-sensitivity and to more accurate predictions for radiation doses received by astronauts and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Claudio Corti , Veronica Bindi , Cristina Consolandi , Kathryn Whitman

We present high-statistics, precision measurements by AMS of the detailed time and rigidity dependence of the primary cosmic-ray electron, positron, proton and helium fluxes over 79 Bartels rotations from May 2011 to May 2017 in the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-20 Davide Rozza

This thesis presents an analysis of the cosmic-ray electron and positron flux using the AMS-02 detector on the International Space Station as a function of time and energy. The time-averaged flux is integrated over 6.5 years of AMS-02…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-25 Nikolas Zimmermann

Dark matter search in space has been carried out for many years. Measurements of cosmic ray photons, charged antiparticles and neutrinos are useful tools for dark matter indirect search. The antiparticle energy spectra of cosmic rays have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Jie Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

The AMS-02 experiment has reported a new measurement of the antiproton/proton ratio in Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). In the energy range $E\sim\,$60-450 GeV, this ratio is found to be remarkably constant. Using recent data on CR proton,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Jie Feng , Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

In this work we use the newly reported Boron-to-Carbon ratio (B/C) from AMS-02 and the time-dependent proton fluxes from PAMELA and AMS-02 to constrain the source and propagation parameters of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. A linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Qiang Yuan , Su-Jie Lin , Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi

Understanding the time-dependent relationship between the Sun's variability and cosmic rays (GCR) is essential for developing predictive models of energetic radiation in space. When traveling inside the heliosphere, GCRs are affected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 N. Tomassetti , E. Fiandrini , B. Bertucci , F. Donnini , M. Graziani , B. Khiali , A. Reina Conde

The AMS02 experiment has published the periodic spectra of proton, helium and helium isotopes across the majority of the 24 solar cycle. These precise data exhibit temporal structures that correlate with solar modulation. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Wei-Cheng Long , Juan Wu

Precision measurements by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on the International Space Station of the primary cosmic-ray electron flux and the positron flux will be discussed. The electron flux and the positron flux each require a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-26 Maura Graziani

We study the inverse Compton scattering of solar photons by Galactic cosmic-ray electrons. We show that the gamma-ray emission from this process is substantial with the maximum flux in the direction of the Sun; the angular distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter , Seth W. Digel

The energy spectra of cosmic-ray low-energy antiprotons and protons have been measured by BESS in 1999 and 2000, during a period covering the solar magnetic field reversal. Based on these measurements, a sudden increase of the antiproton to…

The PAMELA space experiment, in orbit since 2006, has measured cosmic rays through the most recent A < 0 solar minimum activity period. During this entire time, galactic electrons and protons have been detected down to 70 MV and 400 MV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 V. Di Felice , R. Munini , E. E. Vos , M. S. Potgieter

The AMS-02 experiment recently published time-dependent fluxes of deuterons (D) from May 2011 to April 2021, divided into 33 periods of four Bartels rotations each. These temporal structures are associated with solar modulation. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Mei-Juan Wang

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) has provided unprecedented precision measurements of the electron and positron cosmic-ray fluxes and the positron fraction spectrum. At the higher energies, sources as energetic local pulsars, may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Ilias Cholis , Thressay Hoover