Propagation of cosmic rays in the AMS-02 era
- 19 April 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 95 (8), 083007
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.083007
Abstract
In this work we use the newly reported boron-to-carbon ratio (B/C) from AMS-02 and the time-dependent proton fluxes from PAMELA and AMS-02 to constrain the source and propagation parameters of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. A linear correlation of the solar modulation parameter with solar activities is assumed to account for the time-varying cosmic ray fluxes. A comprehensive set of propagation models, with or without reacceleration or convection, has been discussed and compared. We find that only the models with reacceleration can self-consistently fit both the proton and B/C data. The rigidity dependence slope of the diffusion coefficient, , is found to be about 0.38–0.50 for the diffusion-reacceleration models. The plain diffusion and diffusion-convection models fit the data poorly. We compare different model predictions of the positron and antiproton fluxes with the data. We find that the diffusion-reacceleration models overproduce low energy positrons, while nonreacceleration models give better fit to the data. As for antiprotons, reacceleration models tend to underpredict low energy antiproton fluxes, unless a phenomenological modification of the velocity dependence of the diffusion coefficient is applied. Our results suggest that there could be important differences of the propagation for nuclei and leptons, in either the Milky Way or the solar heliosphere.
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Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (2016YFA0400200, 11475191)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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