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We show that the fine structure of the electron spectrum in cosmic rays, especially the excess claimed by AMS-02 at energies $\sim$42 GeV, is fully accounted for in terms of inverse Compton losses in the photon background dominated by…

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A low pressure discharge sustained in molecular hydrogen with help of the electron cyclotron resonance heating at a frequency of 2.45 GHz is simulated using a fully electromagnetic implicit charge- and energy-conserving…

This study examines the impact of solar modulation on the antiproton excess observed by AMS-02, which may indicate dark matter (DM) annihilation. We analyze three solar modulation models: the force-field approximation (FFA), a time-,…

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We study the solar-activity and solar-polarity dependence of galactic cosmic-ray intensity (CRI) on the solar and heliospheric parameters playing a significant role in solar modulation. We utilize the data for cosmic-ray intensity as…

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The excesses in the electron and positron spectra observed by many experiments, such as PAMELA and AMS-02, have sparked significant theoretical investigation. It is not easy to distinguish the two primary hypotheses dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

The Transition Radiation Detector of the AMS-02 experiment on the International Space Station is used for the separation of cosmic-ray positrons and electrons from protons and anti-protons, and for the identification of nuclei up to carbon…

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The recent HAWC observations of very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray halo around Geminga and Monogem indicate a very slow diffusion of cosmic rays, which results in tiny contribution of positrons from these two pulsars to the local flux. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Qiang Yuan

The antiparticle energy spectra of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) have several exciting features such as the unexpected positron excess at $E\sim$10-200\,GeV and the remarkably hard antiproton flux at $E\sim$\,60--450\,GeV recently measured by…

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

The possibility that the Gallium data effectively indicates a time modulation of the solar active neutrino flux in possible connection to solar activity is examined on the light of spin flavour precession to sterile neutrinos as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bhag C. Chauhan , Joao Pulido , R. S. Raghavan

We explain the excess of the antiproton fraction recently reported by the AMS-02 experiment by considering collisions between cosmic-ray protons accelerated by a local supernova remnant (SNR) and the surrounding dense cloud. The same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 Kazunori Kohri , Kunihito Ioka , Yutaka Fujita , Ryo Yamazaki

The cosmic ray energy spectra of protons and helium nuclei, which are the most abundant components of cosmic radiation, exhibit a remarkable hardening at energies above one hundred GeV/nucleon. Recent data from AMS-02 confirms this feature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Behrouz Khiali , Sadakazu Haino , Jie Feng

AMS-02 is a cosmic ray experiment that will be placed on the International Space Station. One of its goals is to search for WIMP Dark Matter, specifically from anomalous features in the positron spectrum. In order to identify positrons at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Carosi

Global gradients for cosmic-ray (CR) protons in the heliosphere are computed with a comprehensive modulation model for the recent prolonged solar minimum of Cycle 23/24. Fortunately, the PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 E. E. Vos , M. S. Potgieter

(Abridged) We constrain simulated all-sky maps in total intensity, linear polarization, and rotation measure (RM) by observations. We test a number of large-scale magnetic field configurations and take the properties of the warm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. H. Sun , W. Reich , A. Waelkens , T. Enßlin

An accurate assessment of the Sun's angular momentum (AM) loss rate is an independent constraint for models that describe the rotation evolution of Sun-like stars. In-situ measurements of the solar wind taken by Parker Solar Probe (PSP), at…

The relaxation of the distribution function of the electrons drifting under the influence of a homogeneous electric field in noble gases is known to take place over an extended spatial domain at `intermediate' values of the reduced electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 A. Albert , D. Bošnjaković , S. Dujko , Z. Donkó

After six years of continuous observations in space, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment has released new data on the temporal evolution of the proton and helium fluxes in cosmic rays. These data revealed that the ratio between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-24 Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini , José Figueiredo , João Barreira , Miguel Orcinha

Recent results from the AMS-02 data have confirmed that the cosmic ray positron fraction increases with energy between 10 and 200GeV. This quantity should not exceed 50%, and it is hence expected that it will either converge towards 50% or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-13 Timur Delahaye , Kumiko Kotera , Joseph Silk

We calculate the solar-modulated energy spectra of cosmic-ray antiprotons ($\bar{p}$'s) from two candidate primary sources, i.e., evaporating primordial black holes and the annihilation of neutralino dark matter, as well as for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Mitsui , K. Maki , S. Orito

New measurements with good statistics will make it possible to observe the time variation of cosmic antiprotons at 1 AU through the approaching peak of solar activity. We report a new computation of the interstellar antiproton spectrum…