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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

The accuracy of the current generation of cosmic-ray (CR) experiments, such as AMS-02, PAMELA, CALET, and ISS-CREAM, is now reaching $\sim$1--3\% in a wide range in energy per nucleon from GeV/n to multi-TeV/n. Their correct interpretation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Yoann Genolini , David Maurin , Igor V. Moskalenko , Michael Unger

The Galactic flux of cosmic-ray (CR) positrons in the GeV to TeV energy range is very likely due to different Galactic components. One of these is the inelastic scattering of CR nuclei with the atoms of the interstellar medium. The precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Michael Korsmeier , Silvia Manconi , Luca Orusa

The recent measurement of the spectra of intermediate mass nuclei and iron nuclei carried out with the AMS-02 experiment provided us with the most complete set of data on cosmic ray fluxes to date, and allowed us to test the standard model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-10 Benedikt Schroer , Carmelo Evoli , Pasquale Blasi

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 is measuring the high energy charged cosmic rays with unprecedented accuracy. We explore the possibility of determining the cosmic-ray propagation models using the AMS-02 data $alone$. A global Bayesian analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

We study the impact of possible spiral-arm distributions of Galactic cosmic-ray sources on the flux of various cosmic-ray nuclei throughout our Galaxy. We investigate model cosmic-ray spectra at the nominal position of the sun and at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralf Kissmann , Michael Werner , Olaf Reimer , Andrew W. Strong

The recent measurements of cosmic ray deuteron fluxes by AMS-02 show that the rigidity dependence of deuterons is similar with that of protons but flatter than $^3$He, which has been attributed to the existence of primary deuterons with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

Recently AMS-02 collaboration publish their measurements of light cosmic-ray nuclei, including lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon and oxygen. All of them reveal a prominent excess above $\sim$ 200 GV, coinciding with proton and helium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Wei Liu , Yu-hua Yao , Yi-Qing Guo

The precise spectra of Cosmic Ray (CR) electrons and positrons have been published by the measurement of AMS-02. It is reasonable to regard the difference between the electrons and positrons spectra ( $\triangle \Phi= \Phi_{e^-}-\Phi_{e^+}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-17 C. Jin , Y. Q. Guo , H. B. Hu

Global fits of primary and secondary cosmic-ray (CR) fluxes measured by AMS-02 have great potential to study CR propagation models and search for exotic sources of antimatter such as annihilating dark matter (DM). Previous studies of AMS-02…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-14 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Lukas Klamt , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

The operation of AMS-02 opens a new era for the study of cosmic ray physics with unprecedentedly precise data which are comparable with the laboratory measurements. The high precision data allow a quantitative study on the cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-23 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

Cosmic-ray (CR) antiparticles have the potential to reveal signatures of unexpected astrophysical processes and even new physics beyond the Standard Model. Recent CR detectors have provided accurate measurements of the positron flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-16 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Francesco Loparco

Cosmic ray (CR) physics has entered a precision-driven era. With the latest AMS-02 nuclei data (boron-to-carbon ratio, proton flux, helium flux and antiproton-to-proton ratio), we perform a global fitting and constrain the primary source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Jia-Shu Niu , Tianjun Li

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

Recently the AMS-02 collaboration has published the measurement of the cosmic antiproton to proton ratio $\bar{p}/p$ and the $\bar{p}$ flux with a high precision up to $\sim 450\,\mathrm{GeV}$. In this work, we perform a systematic analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jie Feng , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu

The precise observations of Galactic cosmic ray fluxes of the secondary family, such as Li, Be, B, are expected to have significant implications on our understanding of the cosmic ray origin and propagation. Here we employ the recent very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Qiang Yuan , Cheng-Rui Zhu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Da-Ming Wei

The secondary-to-primary B/C ratio is widely used to study the cosmic ray (CR) propagation processes in the Galaxy. It is usually assumed that secondary nuclei such as Li-Be-B are entirely generated by collisions of heavier CR nuclei with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. Tomassetti , F. Donato

The AMS-02 experiment has ushered cosmic-ray physics into precision era. In a companion paper, we designed an improved method to calibrate propagation models on B/C data. Here we provide a robust prediction of the $\bar{p}$ flux, accounting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-13 Mathieu Boudaud , Yoann Génolini , Laurent Derome , Julien Lavalle , David Maurin , Pierre Salati , Pasquale D. Serpico