Energy spectra of abundant nuclei of primary cosmic rays from the data of ATIC-2 experiment: Final results

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作者
Panov A.D. [1 ]
Adams J.H. [2 ]
Ahn H.S. [3 ]
Bashinzhagyan G.L. [1 ]
Watts J.W. [2 ]
Wefel J.P. [4 ]
Wu J. [3 ]
Ganel O. [3 ]
Guzik T.G. [4 ]
Zatsepin V.I. [1 ]
Isbert I. [4 ]
Kim K.C. [3 ]
Christl M. [2 ]
Kouznetsov E.N. [4 ]
Panasyuk M.I. [1 ]
Seo E.S. [3 ]
Sokolskaya N.V. [1 ]
Chang J. [6 ,7 ]
Schmidt W.K.H. [7 ]
Fazely A.R. [5 ]
机构
[1] Skobel'tsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow
[2] Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
[3] University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
[4] Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
[5] Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA
[6] Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjin
[7] Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会;
关键词
Tellurium compounds - Cosmology - Spectroscopy - Data handling - Crystal atomic structure;
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10.3103/S1062873809050098
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摘要
The final results of processing the data from the balloon-born experiment ATIC-2 (Antarctica, 2002 - 2003) for the energy spectra of protons and He, C, O, Ne, Mg, Si, and Fe nuclei, the spectrum of all particles, and the mean logarithm of atomic weight of primary cosmic rays as a function of energy are presented. The final results are based on improvement of the methods used earlier, in particular, considerably increased resolution of the charge spectrum. The preliminary conclusions on the significant difference in the spectra of protons and helium nuclei (the proton spectrum is steeper) and the non-power character of the spectra of protons and heavier nuclei (flattening of carbon spectrum at energies above 10 TeV) are confirmed. A complex structure of the energy dependence of the mean logarithm of atomic weight is found. © Allerton Press, Inc. 2009.
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