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We study the compatibility of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) data on the cosmic-ray (CR) positron fraction with data on the CR electron and positron spectra provided by PAMELA and Fermi LAT. We do that in terms of a novel propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 Daniele Gaggero , Luca Maccione , Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso

Codalema is one of the experiments devoted to the detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays by the radio method. The main objective is to study the features of the radio signal induced by the development in the atmosphere of extensive air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-15 Ahmed Rebai

The latest results from PAMELA and FERMI experiments confirm the necessity to improve theoretical models of production and propagation of galactic electrons and positrons. There are many possible explanations for the positron excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 Roberto A. Lineros

The excess of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes measured by the PAMELA satellite and ATIC balloon experiments may be interpreted as the signals of the dark matter annihilation or decay into leptons. In this letter we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

The data recently obtained by PAMELA and ATIC show the presence of the peak in the cosmic positron spectrum at energies above 100 GeV. In this paper it has been shown that the peak can arise due to processes of the interaction of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 A. B. Flanchik

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, i.e. the INTEGRAL satellite of ESA, in orbit since about 3 years, performs gamma-ray observations of the sky in the 15 keV to 8 MeV energy range. Thanks to its imager IBIS, and in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Schanne

The DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) satellite was launched on December 17, 2015 and started its data taking operation a few days later. DAMPE has a large geometric factor ($\sim~0.3\ m^2\ sr$) and provides good tracking, calorimetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-19 F. Gargano

Recently published results from the PAMELA experiment have shown conclusive evidence for an excess of positrons at high (~ 10 - 100 GeV) energies, confirming earlier indications from HEAT and AMS-01. Such a signal is generally expected from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Ilias Cholis , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Neal Weiner

Recent cosmic ray, gamma ray, and microwave signals observed by Fermi, PAMELA, and WMAP indicate an unexpected primary source of e+e- at 10-1000 GeV. We fit these data to "standard backgrounds" plus a new source, assumed to be a separable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Tongyan Lin , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

Gamma-ray Astronomy studies cosmic accelerators through their electromagnetic radiation in the energy range between ~100 MeV and ~100 TeV. The present most sensitive observations in this energy band are performed, from space, by the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-29 Javier Rico

e-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray space mission proposed for the fifth Medium-size mission (M5) of the European Space Agency. It is dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from ~0.15 MeV to 3 GeV with…

The AMS experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-29 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Christoph Weniger

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope was launched in June 2008 and the onboard Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been collecting data since August of that same year. The LAT is currently being used to study a wide range of science topics in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 P. D. Smith , R. E. Hughes , B. L. Winer , T. W. Wood

Recent measurements of the Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars by the gamma-ray telescope HAWC (along with earlier measurements by Milagro) indicate that these objects generate significant fluxes of very high-energy electrons. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Ke Fang

The center of our Galaxy is a known strong source of electron-positron 511-keV annihilation radiation. Thus far, however, there have been no reliable detections of annihilation radiation outside of the central radian of our Galaxy. One of…

The BESS-Polar spectrometer had its first successful balloon flight over Antarctica in December 2004. During the 8.5-day long-duration flight, almost 0.9 billion events were recorded and 1,520 antiprotons were detected in the energy range…

Cosmic-ray antiprotons represent an important channel for dark matter indirect-detection studies. Current measurements of the antiproton flux at the top of the atmosphere and theoretical determinations of the secondary antiproton production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-02 N. Fornengo , L. Maccione , A. Vittino

The measurement of an excess in the cosmic-ray electron spectrum between 300 and 800 GeV by the ATIC experiment has - together with the PAMELA detection of a rise in the positron fraction up to 100 GeV - motivated many interpretations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian