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We perform a comprehensive analysis of cosmic-ray propagation using the time-dependent AMS-02 flux measurements covering a full solar cycle, with particular emphasis on the role of solar modulation. We fit two representative Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Isabelle John , Alessandro Cuoco , Mattia Di Mauro

Recent studies on cosmic rays (CRs) have reported the possibility of an excess in the antiproton flux around $10-20$ GeV. However, the associated systematic uncertainties have impeded the interpretation of these findings. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-31 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

AMS-02 is a wide acceptance high-energy physics experiment installed on the International Space Station in May 2011 and it has been operating continuously since then. AMS-02 is able to separate cosmic rays light nuclei ($1\leq Z \leq 8$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Valerio Formato

The interpretation of high-precision cosmic ray spectra is fundamentally bottlenecked by uncertainties in fragmentation cross-sections. Traditional kinematic models, driven by phase-space expansions, typically predict complex,…

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Cosmic-ray antiprotons are a remarkable diagnostic tool for the study of astroparticle physics' processes in our Galaxy. While the bulk of measured antiprotons is consistent with a secondary origin, several studies have found evidence for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-02 Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

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

Recent balloon-borne and satellite experiments have established new features in the behavior of the spectra of cosmic rays. An analysis of all the data showed that hardening of most abundant primary cosmic ray nuclei spectra with increasing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-17 A A Lagutin , N V Volkov , R I Raikin , A G Tyumentsev

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 precise observations of cosmic rays (CRs) by AMS-02 experiment clearly show (1) harder spectra of helium and carbon compared to protons by $\propto R^{0.08}$, and (2) concave breaks in proton and helium spectra at a rigidity $R \sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Yutaka Ohira , Norita Kawanaka , Kunihito Ioka

High-energy Li-Be-B nuclei in cosmic rays are being measured with unprecedent accuracy by the AMS experiment. These data bring valuable information to the cosmic ray propagation physics. In particular, combined measurements of B/C and Be/B…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-27 Nicola Tomassetti

Observations of light isotopes in cosmic rays provide information on their origin and propagation in the Galaxy. Using the data collected by AMS-01 in the STS- 91 space mission, we compare the measurements on 1H, 2H, 3He and 4He with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 N. Tomassetti

High-precision data from AMS-02 on Li, Be, and B provide the best constraints on Galactic cosmic-ray transport parameters. We re-evaluate the impact of Fe fragmentation on the Li, Be, and B modelling. We discuss the consequences on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 D. Maurin , E. Ferronato Bueno , Y. Génolini , L. Derome , M. Vecchi

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

Local interstellar spectra (LIS) of secondary cosmic ray (CR) nuclei, lithium, beryllium, boron, and partially secondary nitrogen, are derived in the rigidity range from 10 MV to ~200 TV using the most recent experimental results combined…

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

The AMS-02 experiment has observed new properties of primary cosmic rays (CRs) categorized into two groups: He-C-O-Fe and Ne-Mg-Si-S, which are independent of CR propagation. In this study, we investigate the unexpected properties of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-08 Xu-Lin Dong , Yu-Hua Yao , Yi-Qing Guo , Shu-Wang Cui

The most significant feature in the cosmic-ray (CR) nuclei spectra is the spectral hardening at a few hundred GV. It is important to know whether the hardening of different nuclei species is the same or not for constructing CR sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-14 Jia-Shu Niu , Jing Liu

Since its launch, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02) has delivered outstanding quality measurements of the spectra of cosmic-ray (CR) species, $\bar{p}$, $e^{\pm}$, and nuclei (H-Si, Fe), which resulted in a number of…

Composition and spectra of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are vital for studies of high-energy processes in a variety of environments and on different scales, for interpretation of gamma-ray and microwave observations, disentangling possible…

We have studied the impact of cosmic-ray acceleration in SNR on the spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei in the Galaxy using a series expansion of the propagation equation, which allows us to use analytical solutions for part of the problem and an…

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