Properties of Heavy Secondary Fluorine Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Open Access
- 25 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 126 (8), 081102
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.081102
Abstract
Precise knowledge of the charge and rigidity dependence of the secondary cosmic ray fluxes and the secondary-to-primary flux ratios is essential in the understanding of cosmic ray propagation. We report the properties of heavy secondary cosmic ray fluorine F in the rigidity range 2.15 GV to 2.9 TV based on 0.29 million events collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment on the International Space Station. The fluorine spectrum deviates from a single power law above 200 GV. The heavier secondary-to-primary F/Si flux ratio rigidity dependence is distinctly different from the lighter B/O (or B/C) rigidity dependence. In particular, above 10 GV, the ratio can be described by a power law with . This shows that the propagation properties of heavy cosmic rays, from F to Si, are different from those of light cosmic rays, from He to O, and that the secondary cosmic rays have two classes.
Funding Information
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
- CERN
- European Space Agency
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics
- China Academy of Space Technology
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
- Shandong University
- Academy of Finland (321882)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (50OO1403, 50OO1805)
- RWTH Aachen University
- Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (2014-037-R.1-2017, 2019-19-HH.0)
- Università degli Studi di Perugia (2019-2-HH.0)
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018R1A6A1A06024970)
- Kyungpook National University
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (680-1-004)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (CERN/FIS-PAR/0013/2019)
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
- Centre for Industrial Technological Development
- Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PID2019–107988 GB-C21/C22, CEX2019-000920-S, MDM-2015-0509)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Academia Sinica
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (107-2119-M-006-015-MY3, 109-2112-M-001-029, CDA-105-M06)
- National Science Foundation (1455202, 1551980)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (HELIO15F-0005)
- Johnson Space Center
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- China Scholarship Council
- Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (2020TAEK(CERN)A5.H1.F5-26)
- Institute of Electrical Engineering
- Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology
- CHEP
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- Wyle Laboratories (2014/T72497)
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Russia (0723-2020-0040)
- Dr. Steuer’s foundation
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