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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-17 Nikolay Volkov , Anatoly Lagutin , Alexander Tyumentsev

More and more experiments have identified that the energy spectra of both primary and secondary cosmic-rays exhibit a hardening above $\sim 200$ GV. Most recently, the DAMPE experiment has reported a hardening of boron-to-carbon ratio at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-06 Pei-Pei Zhang , Xin-Yu He , Wei Liu , Yi-Qing Guo

Recent data from ATIC, CREAM and PAMELA indicate that the cosmic ray energy spectra of protons and nuclei exhibit a remarkable hardening at energies above 100 GeV per nucleon. We propose that the hardening is an interstellar propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-29 N. Tomassetti

The AMS-02 experiment has provided high-precision measurements of several cosmic-ray (CR) species. The achieved percent-level accuracy gives access to small spectral differences among the different species and, in turn, this allows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Michael Korsmeier , Alessandro Cuoco

Recent accurate measurements of cosmic-ray (CR) protons and nuclei by ATIC-2, CREAM, and PAMELA reveal: a) unexpected spectral hardening in the spectra of CR species above a few hundred GeV per nucleon, b) a harder spectrum of He compared…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-14 Andrey E. Vladimirov , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter

Based on the precise nuclei data released by AMS-02, we study the spectra hardening of both the primary (proton, helium, carbon, oxygen, and the primary component of nitrogen) and the secondary (anti-proton, lithium, beryllium, boron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-07 Jia-Shu Niu , Tianjun Li , Hui-Fang Xue

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

High precision spectrometry of galactic cosmic rays (CR) has revealed the lack of our understanding of how different CR elements are extracted from the supernova environments to be further accelerated in their shocks. Comparing the spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-11 Adrian Hanusch , Tatyana Liseykina , Mikhail Malkov

The AMS-02 experiment has reported precise measurements of energy spectra of several cosmic-ray species in the range of ~(0.5-2000) GeV/n. An intriguing finding is the differences in the spectral shape between the different species. Protons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Satyendra Thoudam , Björn Eichmann , Jörg P. Rachen

Recent precise measurements of cosmic ray spectral revealed an anomalous hardening at ~200 GV for nuclei from PAMELA, CREAM, ATIC, AMS02 experiments and at tens of GeV for primary electron derived from AMS02 experiment. Particularly, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Yi-Qing Guo , Zhen Tian , Chao Jin

With experimental results of AMS on the spectra of cosmic ray (CR) $e^{-}$, $e^{+}$, $e^{-}+e^{+}$ and positron fraction, as well as new measurements of CR $e^{-}+e^{+}$ flux by HESS, one can better understand the CR lepton ($e^{-}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-29 Shi Zhao-Dong , Liu Siming

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

The AMS Collaboration has recently released precision data on cosmic ray (CR) leptons and protons at high energies. Interesting progresses have also been made on the measurement of CR nuclei, such as the boron-to-carbon ratio or the lithium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-02 Nicola Tomassetti

In this work we aim at reproducing, simultaneously, the spectral feature at $\sim 10 \, \mathrm{TeV}$ in the cosmic-ray proton spectrum, recently reported by the DAMPE Collaboration, together with the spectral break at $\sim 1 \,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Ottavio Fornieri , Daniele Gaggero , Daniel Guberman , Loann Brahimi , Alexandre Marcowith

Many experiments have confirmed the spectral hardening in a few hundred GV of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei spectra, and 3 different origins have been proposed: the primary source acceleration, the propagation, and the superposition of different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Jia-Shu Niu

Recent measurements of the cosmic ray (CR) antiproton flux have been shown to challenge existing CR propagation models. It was shown that the reacceleration models designed to match secondary to primary nuclei ratios (e.g., boron/carbon)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , S. G. Mashnik , J. F. Ormes

The latest AMS-02 data on cosmic ray electrons show a break in the energy spectrum around 40 GeV, with a change in the slope of about 0.1. We perform a combined fit to the newest AMS-02 positron and electron flux data above 10 GeV using a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-29 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Silvia Manconi

In a previous study (Maurin et al., 2001), we explored the set of parameters describing diffusive propagation of cosmic rays (galactic convection, reacceleration, halo thickness, spectral index and normalization of the diffusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Maurin , Richard Taillet , Fiorenza Donato

The results of ATIC-2 baloon experiment (2002-2003) for energy spectra of protons, He, C, O, Ne, Mg, Si, Fe, some groups of nuclei, and all-particle spectrum in primary cosmic rays are presented in energy region 50GeV--200TeV. The…