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The recent report by the PAMELA team of the observed rise in the cosmic-ray positron fraction above a few GeV and the report of an excess of cosmic-ray electrons around a few hundred GeV by the ATIC collaboration has resulted in a flurry of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-05 Michael Schubnell

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

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), to be installed on the International Space Station, will provide data on cosmic radiations in a large energy range. The main physics goals in the astroparticle domain are the antimatter and the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego Casadei

The AMS-02 has measured the cosmic ray electron (plus positron) spectrum up to ~TeV with an unprecedent precision. The spectrum can be well described by a power law without any obvious features above 10 GeV. The satellite instrument Dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Kun Fang , Bing-Bing Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

Very recently, the Fermi-Lab reported the new experimental combined results on the magnetic momentum of muon with a 4.2$\sigma$ discrepancy compared with the expectation of the Standard Model \cite{Fermi_Lab}. A new light gauge boson $X$ in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Lei Zu , Xu Pan , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $\gamma$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the…

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

AMS instrument aboard the International Space Station is a high precision instrument capable of collecting large statistics on cosmic ray intensities and as such has started making highly significant contributions to Astroparticle Physics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Cowsik , B. Burch , T. Madziwa-Nussinov

The rapid rise in the cosmic ray positron fraction above 10 GeV, as measured by PAMELA and AMS, suggests the existence of nearby primary sources of high energy positrons, such as pulsars or annihilating/decaying dark matter. In contrast,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper

We study the cosmic ray antiprotons with updated constraints on the propagation, proton injection, and solar modulation parameters based on the newest AMS-02 data near the Earth and Voyager data in the local interstellar space, and on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-15 Ming-Yang Cui , Xu Pan , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Hong-Shi Zong

If the astronomical dark matter is made of weakly interacting, massive and stable species, it should annihilate on itself into particles. This process should produce rare antimatter cosmic rays and lead to distortions in their energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-05 Pierre Salati

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

We analyze the electron cosmic-ray spectrum from AMS-02, focusing on the spectral hardening around 42 GeV. Our findings confirm that this feature is intrinsic to the primary electron component rather than a byproduct of contamination from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Carmelo Evoli

A combined interpretation of the CALET $e^+\, +\, e^-$ spectrum up to 3 TeV and the AMS-02 positron spectrum up to 500 GeV was performed and the results are discussed. To parametrize the background electron flux, we assume a smoothly broken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 S. Bhattacharyya , H. Motz , Y. Asaoka , S. Torii

This review concentrates on the results obtained, over the last ten years, on the astrophysics of high-energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons. The anomalies, observed in the data of recent experiments (possible bump in the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-26 A. D. Panov

The spectrum and morphology of gamma-rays from the Galactic Center and the spectrum of synchrotron emission observed from the Milky Way's radio filaments have each been interpreted as possible signals of $\sim$7-10 GeV dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Wei Xue

Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray observations have yielded several notable excesses that often lend themselves to explanation by various dark matter annihilation/decay models. In particular, the AMS-02 anti-proton and positron excesses have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Geoff Beck

We propose a possible explanation for the recent claim of an excess at 3.5 keV in the X-ray spectrum within a minimal extension of the standard model that explains dark matter and baryon abundance of the universe. The dark matter mass in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-09 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao

We show that the recent AMS02 positron fraction measurement is consistent with a secondary origin for positrons, and does not require additional primary sources such as pulsars or dark matter. The measured positron fraction at high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-27 Kfir Blum , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

A measurement of the cosmic ray positron fraction e+/(e+ + e-) in the energy range of 1-30 GeV is presented. The measurement is based on data taken by the AMS-01 experiment during its 10 day Space Shuttle flight in June 1998. A proton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 01 Collaboration