MEASUREMENT OF THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF HYDROGEN AND HELIUM NUCLEI IN COSMIC RAYS WITH THE PAMELA EXPERIMENT

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作者
Adriani, O. [1 ,2 ]
Barbarino, G. C. [3 ,4 ]
Bazilevskaya, G. A. [5 ]
Bellotti, R. [6 ,7 ]
Boezio, M. [8 ]
Bogomolov, E. A. [9 ]
Bongi, M. [1 ,2 ]
Bonvicini, V. [8 ]
Borisov, S. [10 ,11 ,12 ]
Bottai, S. [2 ]
Bruno, A. [6 ,7 ]
Cafagna, F. [7 ]
Campana, D. [4 ]
Carbone, R. [8 ]
Carlson, P. [13 ,14 ]
Casolino, M. [10 ,15 ]
Castellini, G. [16 ]
Danilchenko, I. A. [12 ]
De Pascale, M. P. [10 ,11 ]
De Santis, C. [11 ]
De Simone, N. [11 ]
Di Felice, V. [11 ]
Formato, V. [8 ,17 ]
Galper, A. M. [12 ]
Karelin, A. V. [12 ]
Koldashov, S. V. [12 ]
Koldobskiy, S. [12 ]
Krutkov, S. Y. [9 ]
Kvashnin, A. N. [5 ]
Leonov, A. [12 ]
Malakhov, V. [12 ]
Marcelli, L. [11 ]
Mayorov, A. G. [12 ]
Menn, W. [18 ]
Mikhailov, V. V. [12 ]
Mocchiutti, E. [8 ]
Monaco, A. [6 ,7 ]
Mori, N. [2 ]
Nikonov, N. [9 ,10 ,11 ]
Osteria, G. [4 ]
Palma, F. [10 ,11 ]
Papini, P. [2 ]
Pearce, M. [13 ,14 ]
Picozza, P. [10 ,11 ]
Pizzolotto, C. [8 ,19 ,20 ]
Ricci, M. [21 ]
Ricciarini, S. B. [16 ]
Rossetto, L. [13 ,14 ]
Sarkar, R. [8 ]
Simon, M. [18 ]
机构
[1] Univ Florence, Dept Phys, I-50019 Florence, Italy
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Florence, I-50019 Florence, Italy
[3] Univ Naples Federico II, Dept Phys, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Naples, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[5] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, RU-119991 Moscow, Russia
[6] Univ Bari, Dept Phys, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[7] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[8] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
[9] AF Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, RU-194021 St Petersburg, Russia
[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Rome Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[11] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dept Phys, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[12] Natl Res Nucl Univ MEPhI, RU-115409 Moscow, Russia
[13] AlbaNova Univ Ctr, KTH, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[14] AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[15] RIKEN, Adv Sci Inst, Wako, Saitama, Japan
[16] IFAC, I-50019 Florence, Italy
[17] Univ Trieste, Dept Phys, I-34147 Trieste, Italy
[18] Univ Siegen, Dept Phys, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[20] Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Sci Data Ctr, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
关键词
astroparticle physics; cosmic rays; LIGHT-NUCLEI; PROPAGATION; GALAXY; SPECTRA; PROTON; RATIO; FIELD; LESS;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/770/1/2
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The satellite-borne experiment PAMELA has been used to make new measurements of cosmic ray H and He isotopes. The isotopic composition was measured between 100 and 600 MeV /n for hydrogen and between 100 and 900 MeV /n for helium isotopes over the 23rd solar minimum from 2006 July to 2007 December. The energy spectrum of these components carries fundamental information regarding the propagation of cosmic rays in the galaxy which are competitive with those obtained from other secondary to primary measurements such as B/C.
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