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Properties of Iron Primary Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

  • AMS Collaboration
  • Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • University of Geneva
  • CIEMAT
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • Jülich Research Centre
  • CERN
  • University of Groningen
  • University of Trento
  • University of Perugia
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • NASA Johnson Space Center
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Kiel University
  • CNRIROE
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • National Central University
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • University of Bologna
  • Shandong University
  • Middle East Technical University
  • ASI Space Science Data Center (SSDC)
  • Southeast University, Nanjing
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • University of La Laguna
  • University of Milan - Bicocca
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • National Chung–Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST)
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Academia Sinica Taiwan HQ
  • CAS - Institute of Electrical Engineering
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • University of Oulu
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Also at IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna
  • University of Turku
  • Italian Space Agency
  • National Cheng Kung University
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

We report the observation of new properties of primary iron (Fe) cosmic rays in the rigidity range 2.65 GV to 3.0 TV with 0.62 million iron nuclei collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment on the International Space Station. Above 80.5 GV the rigidity dependence of the cosmic ray Fe flux is identical to the rigidity dependence of the primary cosmic ray He, C, and O fluxes, with the Fe/O flux ratio being constant at 0.155±0.006. This shows that unexpectedly Fe and He, C, and O belong to the same class of primary cosmic rays which is different from the primary cosmic rays Ne, Mg, and Si class.

Original languageEnglish
Article number129
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume395
StatePublished - 18 Mar 2022
Event37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 - Virtual, Berlin, Germany
Duration: 12 Jul 202123 Jul 2021

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