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Precision measurement of the (e++e-) flux in primary cosmic rays from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the alpha magnetic spectrometer on the international space station

  • M. Aguilar
  • , D. Aisa
  • , B. Alpat
  • , A. Alvino
  • , G. Ambrosi
  • , K. Andeen
  • , L. Arruda
  • , N. Attig
  • , P. Azzarello
  • , A. Bachlechner
  • , F. Barao
  • , A. Barrau
  • , L. Barrin
  • , A. Bartoloni
  • , L. Basara
  • , M. Battarbee
  • , R. Battiston
  • , J. Bazo
  • , U. Becker
  • , M. Behlmann
  • B. Beischer, J. Berdugo, B. Bertucci, G. Bigongiari, V. Bindi, S. Bizzaglia, M. Bizzarri, G. Boella, W. De Boer, K. Bollweg, V. Bonnivard, B. Borgia, S. Borsini, M. J. Boschini, M. Bourquin, J. Burger, F. Cadoux, X. D. Cai, M. Capell, S. Caroff, J. Casaus, V. Cascioli, G. Castellini, I. Cernuda, F. Cervelli, M. J. Chae, Y. H. Chang, A. I. Chen, H. Chen, G. M. Cheng, H. S. Chen, L. Cheng, A. Chikanian, H. Y. Chou, E. Choumilov, V. Choutko, C. H. Chung, C. Clark, R. Clavero, G. Coignet, C. Consolandi, A. Contin, C. Corti, B. Coste, M. Crispoltoni, Z. Cui, M. Dai, C. Delgado, S. Della Torre, M. B. Demirköz, L. Derome, S. Di Falco, L. Di Masso, F. Dimiccoli, C. Díaz, P. Von Doetinchem, F. Donnini, W. J. Du, M. Duranti, D. D'Urso, A. Eline, F. J. Eppling, T. Eronen, Y. Y. Fan, L. Farnesini, J. Feng, E. Fiandrini, A. Fiasson, E. Finch, P. Fisher, Y. Galaktionov, G. Gallucci, B. García, R. García-López, C. Gargiulo, H. Gast, I. Gebauer, M. Gervasi, A. Ghelfi, W. Gillard, F. Giovacchini, P. Goglov, J. Gong, C. Goy, V. Grabski, D. Grandi, M. Graziani, C. Guandalini, I. Guerri, K. H. Guo, M. Habiby, S. Haino, K. C. Han, Z. H. He, M. Heil, J. Hoffman, T. H. Hsieh, Z. C. Huang, C. Huh, M. Incagli, M. Ionica, W. Y. Jang, H. Jinchi, K. Kanishev, G. N. Kim, K. S. Kim, Th Kirn, R. Kossakowski, O. Kounina, A. Kounine, V. Koutsenko, M. S. Krafczyk, S. Kunz, G. La Vacca, E. Laudi, G. Laurenti, I. Lazzizzera, A. Lebedev, H. T. Lee, S. C. Lee, C. Leluc, H. L. Li, J. Q. Li, Q. Li, Q. Li, T. X. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, Z. H. Li, Z. Y. Li, S. Lim, C. H. Lin, P. Lipari, T. Lippert, D. Liu, H. Liu, T. Lomtadze, M. J. Lu, Y. S. Lu, K. Luebelsmeyer, F. Luo, J. Z. Luo, S. S. Lv, R. Majka, A. Malinin, C. Mañá, J. Marín, T. Martin, G. Martínez, N. Masi, D. Maurin, A. Menchaca-Rocha, Q. Meng, D. C. Mo, L. Morescalchi, P. Mott, M. Müller, J. Q. Ni, N. Nikonov, F. Nozzoli, P. Nunes, A. Obermeier, A. Oliva, M. Orcinha, F. Palmonari, C. Palomares, M. Paniccia, A. Papi, M. Pauluzzi, E. Pedreschi, S. Pensotti, R. Pereira, F. Pilo, A. Piluso, C. Pizzolotto, V. Plyaskin, M. Pohl, V. Poireau, E. Postaci, A. Putze, L. Quadrani, X. M. Qi, T. Räihä, P. G. Rancoita, D. Rapin, J. S. Ricol, I. Rodríguez, S. Rosier-Lees, A. Rozhkov, D. Rozza, R. Sagdeev, J. Sandweiss, P. Saouter, C. Sbarra, S. Schael, S. M. Schmidt, D. Schuckardt, A. Schulz Von Dratzig, G. Schwering, G. Scolieri, E. S. Seo, B. S. Shan, Y. H. Shan, J. Y. Shi, X. Y. Shi, Y. M. Shi, T. Siedenburg, D. Son, F. Spada, F. Spinella, W. Sun, W. H. Sun, M. Tacconi, C. P. Tang, X. W. Tang, Z. C. Tang, L. Tao, D. Tescaro, Samuel C.C. Ting, S. M. Ting, N. Tomassetti, J. Torsti, C. Türkoʇlu, T. Urban, V. Vagelli, E. Valente, C. Vannini, E. Valtonen, S. Vaurynovich, M. Vecchi, M. Velasco, J. P. Vialle, L. Q. Wang, Q. L. Wang, R. S. Wang, X. Wang, Z. X. Wang, Z. L. Weng, K. Whitman, J. Wienkenhöver, H. Wu, X. Xia, M. Xie, S. Xie, R. Q. Xiong, G. M. Xin, N. S. Xu, W. Xu, Q. Yan, J. Yang, M. Yang, Q. H. Ye, H. Yi, Y. J. Yu, Z. Q. Yu, S. Zeissler, J. H. Zhang, M. T. Zhang, X. B. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. M. Zheng, H. L. Zhuang, V. Zhukov, A. Zichichi, N. Zimmermann, P. Zuccon, C. Zurbach
  • CIEMAT
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Perugia
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • Jülich Research Centre
  • University of Geneva
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • CERN
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • University of Trento
  • University of Turku
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Pisa
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • University of Milan - Bicocca
  • NASA Johnson Space Center
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • Ewha Womans University
  • National Central University
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • Shandong University
  • Yale University
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • University of Bologna
  • CAS - Institute of Electrical Engineering
  • Middle East Technical University
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Southeast University, Nanjing
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology Taiwan
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Beihang University
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the cosmic ray (e++e-) flux in the range 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV based on the analysis of 10.6 million (e++e-) events collected by AMS. The statistics and the resolution of AMS provide a precision measurement of the flux. The flux is smooth and reveals new and distinct information. Above 30.2 GeV, the flux can be described by a single power law with a spectral index γ=-3.170±0.008(stat+syst)±0.008(energyscale).

Original languageEnglish
Article number221102
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume113
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Nov 2014

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