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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

Context: Features in the spectra of primary cosmic rays (CRs) provide invaluable information on the propagation of these particles in the Galaxy. In the rigidity region around a few hundred GV, such features have been measured in the proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Serpico

We study the propagation and injection models of cosmic rays using the latest measurements of the Boron-to-Carbon ratio and fluxes of protons, Helium, Carbon, and Oxygen nuclei by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the Advanced Composition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-13 Qiang Yuan

One of the fundamental issues in cosmic ray physics is to explain the nature of cosmic ray acceleration and propagation mechanisms. Thanks to the precise cosmic ray data measured by recent space experiments, we are able to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-20 Yu Wang , Juan Wu , Wei-Cheng Long

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., B/C) produce too…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , J. F. Ormes , S. G. Mashnik

The ratio of the fluxes of secondary and primary nuclei in cosmic rays has long been used as an indicator of the grammage traversed in the journey of cosmic ray particles throughout the Galaxy. The basic idea is that primary particles are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Pasquale Blasi

The AMS-02 collaboration recently released cosmic-ray F/Si data of unprecedented accuracy. Cosmic-ray (CR) fluorine is predominantly produced by fragmentation of heavier progenitors, while silicon is mostly accelerated at source. This ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 E. Ferronato Bueno , L. Derome , Y. Génolini , D. Maurin , V. Tatischeff , M. Vecchi

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) generally share common propagation features, leading to consistent spectral observations of secondary nuclei such as Li, Be, and B. However, the Li spectrum predicted by the CR diffusion coefficient inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Xing-Jian Lv , Peng-Fei Yin

Current measurements of cosmic-ray fluxes have reached unprecedented accuracy thanks to the new generation of experiments, and in particular the AMS-02 mission. At the same time, significant progress has been made in the propagation models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-08 Pedro de la Torre Luque , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Francesco Loparco , Fabio Gargano , Davide Serini

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

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are affected by solar modulation while they propagate through the heliosphere. The study of the time variation of GCR spectra observed at Earth can shed light on the underlying physical processes, specifically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 Claudio Corti , Marius S. Potgieter , Veronica Bindi , Cristina Consolandi , Chris Light , Matteo Palermo , Alexis Popkow

Observations of light isotopes in cosmic rays provide valuable information on their origin and propagation in the Galaxy. Using the data collected by the AMS-01 experiment in the range ~0.2-1.5 GeV/nucleon, we compare the measurements on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-30 N. Tomassetti

Abundances and energy spectra of cosmic ray nuclei are being measured with high accuracy by the AMS experiment. These observations can provide tight constraints to the propagation models of galactic cosmic rays. In the view of the release…

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

The ACE-CRIS collaboration has recently released the measurement of radioactive $^{60}$Fe nuclei abundance in Galactic Cosmic Rays, in the energy range $\sim 195-500$ MeV per nucleon. We model Cosmic Ray propagation and derive from this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Morlino , Elena Amato

We take a fresh look at high energy radioactive nuclei data reported in the 90's and at the positron data recently reported by PAMELA. Our aim is to study the model independent implications of these data for the propagation time scales of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kfir Blum

Tentative observations of cosmic-ray antihelium by the AMS-02 collaboration have re-energized the quest to use antinuclei to search for physics beyond the standard model. However, our transition to a data-driven era requires more accurate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-23 Pedro De La Torre Luque , Martin Wolfgang Winkler , Tim Linden

Thanks to tremendous experimental efforts, galactic cosmic-ray fluxes are being measured up to the unprecedented per cent precision level. The logarithmic slope of these fluxes is a crucial quantity that promises us information on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-21 M. Vecchi , P. -I. Batista , E. F. Bueno , L. Derome , Y. Génolini , D. Maurin

In this work, we considered 2 schemes (a high-rigidity break in primary source injections and a high-rigidity break in diffusion coefficient) to reproduce the newly released AMS-02 nuclei spectra (He, C, N, O, Li, Be, and B) when the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Jia-Shu Niu , Hui-Fang Xue

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 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