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The purpose of the CODALEMA experiment, installed at the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Observatory (France), is to study the radio-detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the energy range of $10^{16}-10^{18} eV$. Distributed over an area of 0.25…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Lautridou , the CODALEMA Collaboration

In the last months several ballon and satellite experiments improved significantly our knowledge of cosmic rays (CR) spectra at high energy. In particular CREAM allowed to measure B/C, C/O and N/O up to 1 TeV and PAMELA the anti-p/p ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-25 C. Evoli , D. Gaggero , D. Grasso , L. Maccione

Extended results on the cosmic-ray electron + positron spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV are presented based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space Station utilizing the data up to November…

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray electron and positron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

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

We are constructing a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron radiation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

A multichannel analysis of cosmic ray electron and positron spectra and of the diffuse synchrotron emission of the Galaxy is performed by using the DRAGON code. This study is aimed at probing the interstellar electron source spectrum down…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

Recently PAMELA released their first results on the positron and antiproton ratios. Stimulated by the new data, we studied the cosmic ray propagation models and calculated the secondary positron and antiproton spectra. The low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Peng-fei Yin , Qiang Yuan , Jia Liu , Juan Zhang , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu , Xinmin Zhang

The NUCLEON space observatory is a direct cosmic ray spectrometer designed to study cosmic ray nuclei with $Z=1-30$ at energies $10^{12}-10^{15}$ eV. It was launched as an additional payload onboard the Russian Resource-P No. 2 satellite.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 V. Grebenyuk , D. Karmanov , I. Kovalev , I. Kudryashov , A. Kurganov , A. Panov , D. Podorozhny , A. Tkachenko , L. Tkachev , A. Turundaevskiy , O. Vasiliev , A. Voronin

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment is a novel approach for the detection of cosmic ray antiparticles. A prototype GAPS experiment (pGAPS) was successfully flown on a high-altitude balloon in June of 2012. The goals of…

We discuss recent observations of high energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons in the context of hadronic interactions in supernova remnants, the suspected accelerators of galactic cosmic rays. Diffusive shock acceleration can harden the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Markus Ahlers , Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

We have observed cosmic-ray electrons from 10 GeV to 800 GeV by a long duration balloon flight using Polar Patrol Balloon (PPB) in Antarctica. The observation was carried out for 13 days at an average altitude of 35 km in January 2004. The…

The GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope is designed to measure the fluxes of gamma rays and cosmic-ray electrons + positrons, which can be produced by annihilation or decay of the dark matter particles, as well as to survey the celestial sphere…

The recent solar minimum activity period and the consequent minimum modulation conditions for cosmic rays were unusual compared to previous solar minimum periods. The highest spectra of galactic protons (and other cosmic rays) were recorded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-08 M. S. Potgieter , R. Du T. Strauss , N. De Simone , M. Boezio

A recently proposed model (arXiv:0903.2794) explains the rise in energy of the positron fraction measured by the PAMELA satellite in terms of hadronic production of positrons in aged supernova remnants, and acceleration therein. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-30 Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale D. Serpico

In this paper, we present the measurement of the energy spectra of carbon and oxygen in cosmic rays based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space Station from October 2015 to October 2019.…

Galactic charged cosmic rays (notably electrons, positrons, antiprotons and light antinuclei) are powerful probes of dark matter annihilation or decay, in particular for candidates heavier than a few MeV or tiny evaporating primordial black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Yoann Génolini , Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli , Laurent Derome , Julien Lavalle , David Maurin , Pierre Salati , Nathanael Weinrich

The operation of AMS-02 opens a new era for the study of cosmic ray physics with unprecedentedly precise data which are comparable with the laboratory measurements. The high precision data allow a quantitative study on the cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-23 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

Astrophysical and cosmological observations do not require the dark matter particles to be absolutely stable. If they are indeed unstable, their decay into positrons might occur at a sufficiently large rate to allow the indirect detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

In this paper we note that the spectral intensities of antiprotons observed in Galactic cosmic rays in the energy range ~ 1-100 GeV by BESS, PAMELA and AMS instruments display nearly the same spectral shape as that generated by primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-24 Ramanath Cowsik , Tsitsi Madziwa-Nussinov