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The acceleration of cosmic ray particles and their propagation in the Milky Way and the heliosphere tangle with each other, leading to complexity and degeneracy of the modeling of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). The recent measurements of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Qiang Yuan , Da-Ming Wei

The flux of unstable secondary cosmic ray nuclei, produced by spallation processes in the interstellar medium, can be used to constrain the residence time of cosmic rays inside the Galaxy. Among them, $^{10}$Be is especially useful because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Carmelo Evoli , Giovanni Morlino , Pasquale Blasi , Roberto Aloisio

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

Data from the Voyager probes have provided us with the first measurement of cosmic ray intensities at MeV energies, an energy range which had previously not been explored. Simple extrapolations of models that fit data at GeV energies, e.g.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-14 Vo Hong Minh Phan , Florian Schulze , Philipp Mertsch , Sarah Recchia , Stefano Gabici

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

The observations of the energy spectra of cosmic-ray have revealed complicated structures. Especially, spectral hardenings in the boron-to-carbon and boron-to-oxygen ratios above $\sim 200$ GV has been revealed by AMS-02 and DAMPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Dong-Xu Sun , Pei-Pei Zhang , Yi-Qing Guo , Wei Liu , Qiang Yuan

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

Measurement of the chemical and isotopic composition of cosmic rays is essential for the precise understanding of their propagation in the galaxy. While the model parameters are mainly determined using the B/C ratio, the study of extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-11 01 Collaboration

Using recent measurements of the spectrum and chemical composition of the highest energy cosmic rays, we consider the sources of these particles. We find that the data strongly prefers models in which the sources of the ultra-high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Andrew M. Taylor , Markus Ahlers , Dan Hooper

Recent data released by the AMS experiment on the primary spectra and secondary-to-primary ratios in cosmic rays (CRs) can pose tight constraints to astrophysical models of CR acceleration and transport in the Galaxy, thereby providing a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti

Cosmic rays are a fundamental source of ionization for molecular and diffuse clouds, influencing their chemical, thermal, and dynamical evolution. The amount of cosmic rays inside a cloud also determines the $\gamma$-ray flux produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-18 G. Morlino , S. Gabici , J. Krause

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

Recent observations of cosmic rays (CRs) have revealed a two-component anomaly in the spectra of primary and secondary particles, as well as their ratios, prompting investigation into their common origin. In this study, we incorporate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-08 Yu-Hua Yao , Xu-Lin Dong , Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

We present the results of new calculations of the energy spectra of cosmic ray electrons, positrons and also positron fraction under assumption that both electrons and positrons are generated by the same Galactic sources, which accelerate…

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

Until fairly recently, it was widely accepted that local cosmic ray spectra were largely featureless power laws, containing limited information on their acceleration and transport. This viewpoint is currently being revised in the light of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Vittino , Philipp Mertsch , Henning Gast , Stefan Schael

The AMS Collaboration has recently released data on cosmic ray (CR) leptons and hadrons that can shed light on two exciting problems in CR physics: on one side, the origin of the rise of the CR positron fraction above ~10 GeV of energy, on…

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

The AMS-02 detector is operating on the International Space Station since May 2011. More than 30 billion events have been collected by the instrument in the first two years of data taking. A precision measurement of the positron fraction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-15 Claudio Corti

Recent direct measurements of Galactic cosmic ray spectra by balloon/space-borne detectors reveal spectral hardenings of all major nucleus species at rigidities of a few hundred GV. The all-sky diffuse gamma-ray emissions measured by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

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

The precision measurements of the spectra of cosmic ray nuclei and leptons in recent years have revealed the existence of multiple features, such as the spectral break at $\sim 300$ GV rigidity seen by PAMELA and AMS-02 and more recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Carmelo Evoli , Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi , Roberto Aloisio