1. Properties of Heavy Secondary Fluorine Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
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Jun Hu, Yu. Galaktionov, A. Rozhkov, C. H. Chung, W Xu, Luísa Arruda, D M Gómez-Coral, M. Behlmann, L Mussolin, M. Konyushikhin, Z. Y. Qu, H. T. Lee, Corinne Goy, Q. Meng, C. Gámez, Eun-Suk Seo, Ying Lu, Valery Zhukov, A. Lebedev, A. Kuhlman, Mario Zannoni, Rami Vainio, P. Zuccon, A. Menchaca-Rocha, A.I. Oliva, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, V. Formato, Varlen Grabski, Sadakazu Haino, C. Tüysüz, G. Schwering, E Robyn, T. Urban, J. D. Burger, Corrado Gargiulo, Jonathan L. Feng, Fan Zhang, Z Liu, T. Siedenburg, H. D. Phan, M Valencia-Otero, W. J. Burger, F. Giovacchini, F. Zhao, Z. H. Li, Qiang Li, Z. L. Weng, D. Rapin, V. Plyaskin, P. von Doetinchem, X. D. Cai, A. Kulemzin, P. Mott, Pier-Giorgio Rancoita, M S Allen, Liqiu Wang, A. Reina Conde, J Liang, I. I. Yashin, Mauro Tacconi, S. Schael, Zhixiang Tang, R. K. Hashmani, G. N. Kim, Zhihua Zhang, C. Clark, S. S. Lyu, J Negrete, B. S. Shan, M. B. Demirköz, F. Cervelli, Timothy H. Hsieh, Zhen Sun, Claudio Corti, H. Yi, L Strigari, B. Khiali, J. Q. Li, Z. Q. Yu, G. La Vacca, Yi Jia, David Maurin, K. C. Han, Xi Luo, F. Donnini, S. C. Lee, M. Vazquez Acosta, C X Wang, F. Dong, Laurent Derome, Elisa Laudi, J Wei, Yung Huang Chang, Q. L. Wang, D. C. Mo, Massimo Gervasi, K. Luebelsmeyer, A. Eline, C Zheng, L. Ali Cavasonza, S Wang, Ilya Usoskin, C. Delgado, J. Z. Luo, Henning Gast, Lucio Quadrani, Zheng Wang, M. Paniccia, M. Capell, R. Sonnabend, J. Marquardt, G. Martinez, Julio C. Marín, M. Li, J. Berdugo, M. Graziani, M. Incagli, V. Choutko, G. Ambrosi, J H Li, C. Consolandi, S. Burmeister, J. J. Torsti, S. Pensotti, S. M. Ting, J Tian, X J Song, A. Pashnin, K. Dadzie, M. Bourquin, S. Li, R. J. García-López, Naihua Wang, A. Bartoloni, S. Di Falco, Fajun Zhang, E. Fiandrini, E F Bueno, W. Y. Jang, R Piandani, Bernd Heber, H. S. Chen, R. Q. Xiong, S. Chouridou, Guo-Ming Chen, H. Jinchi, Mayda Velasco, Chia-Hui Lin, N. Attig, S. Başeğmez-du Pree, D. Grandi, K. Bollweg, J. Gong, Qie Sun, C. Solano, B. Bertucci, Roald Z. Sagdeev, S. Q. Lu, S. Della Torre, Andrei Kounine, S. Rosier-Lees, Q. Yan, H. L. Zhuang, Xiaoqun Wang, Y. Chen, G. Castellini, G R Chen, E. Valente, X. Qin, Chuanguo Zhang, Yi-Cong Yu, Y. Yang, F. Machate, M. Orcinha, M. Vecchi, H. Y. Chou, M. Pauluzzi, N. Nikonov, T. Martin, J. W. Song, M. Duranti, Z. Cui, N. Masi, L. Barrin, A. Schulz von Dratzig, A. Zichichi, Yu Wang, J. Casaus, T Su, V. V. Mikhailov, Stepan Poluianov, M. Aguilar, Lin Cheng, V Vagelli, Jun Liu, Z. H. He, F. Nozzoli, V. Di Felice, L. Wang, J. H. Zhang, C. Freeman, Samuel C.C. Ting, B Beranek, Matteo Boschini, A. Egorov, Z Shakfa, Carlos Díaz, D. Rozza, G. Laurenti, M. Palermo, Roberto Battiston, B. Borgia, Ignazio Lazzizzera, C. Mañá, Veronica Bindi, M. Molero, T. Kirn, O. Kounina, H. Wu, Andrea Contin, G. Coignet, F. Dimiccoli, F. Barao, Thomas Lippert, P. H. Fisher, F. Palmonari, X. W. Tang, J. P. Vialle, Z. M. Zheng, C. Light, K. Kanishev, Nicola Tomassetti, Behcet Alpat, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), AMS, Bourquin, Maurice, Chen, Yao, Liu, Zhen, Paniccia, Mercedes, Rapin, Divic Jean, Robyn, Erwan, Wei, Jiahui, Astronomy, Aguilar M., Cavasonza L.A., Allen M.S., Alpat B., Ambrosi G., Arruda L., Attig N., Barao F., Barrin L., Bartoloni A., Basegmez-Du Pree S., Battiston R., Behlmann M., Beranek B., Berdugo J., Bertucci B., Bindi V., Bollweg K., Borgia B., Boschini M.J., Bourquin M., Bueno E.F., Burger J., Burger W.J., Burmeister S., Cai X.D., Capell M., Casaus J., Castellini G., Cervelli F., Chang Y.H., Chen G.M., Chen G.R., Chen H.S., Chen Y., Cheng L., Chou H.Y., Chouridou S., Choutko V., Chung C.H., Clark C., Coignet G., Consolandi C., Contin A., Corti C., Cui Z., Dadzie K., Delgado C., Della Torre S., Demirkoz M.B., Derome L., Di Falco S., Di Felice V., Diaz C., Dimiccoli F., Von Doetinchem P., Dong F., Donnini F., Duranti M., Egorov A., Eline A., Feng J., Fiandrini E., Fisher P., Formato V., Freeman C., Galaktionov Y., Gamez C., Garcia-Lopez R.J., Gargiulo C., Gast H., Gervasi M., Giovacchini F., Gomez-Coral D.M., Gong J., Goy C., Grabski V., Grandi D., Graziani M., Haino S., Han K.C., Hashmani R.K., He Z.H., Heber B., Hsieh T.H., Hu J.Y., Incagli M., Jang W.Y., Jia Y., Jinchi H., Kanishev K., Khiali B., Kim G.N., Kirn T., Konyushikhin M., Kounina O., Kounine A., Koutsenko V., Kuhlman A., Kulemzin A., La Vacca G., Laudi E., Laurenti G., Lazzizzera I., Lebedev A., Lee H.T., Lee S.C., Li J.Q., Li M., Li Q., Li S., Li J.H., Li Z.H., Liang J., Light C., Lin C.H., Lippert T., Liu J.H., Liu Z., Lu S.Q., Lu Y.S., Luebelsmeyer K., Luo J.Z., Luo X., Lyu S.S., Machate F., Mana C., Marin J., Marquardt J., Martin T., Martinez G., Masi N., Maurin D., Menchaca-Rocha A., Meng Q., Mikhailov V.V., Mo D.C., Molero M., Mott P., Mussolin L., Negrete J., Nikonov N., Nozzoli F., Oliva A., Orcinha M., Palermo M., Palmonari F., Paniccia M., Pashnin A., Pauluzzi M., Pensotti S., Phan H.D., Piandani R., Plyaskin V., Poluianov S., Qin X., Qu Z.Y., Quadrani L., Rancoita P.G., Rapin D., Conde A.R., Robyn E., Rosier-Lees S., Rozhkov A., Rozza D., Sagdeev R., Schael S., Schulz Von Dratzig A., Schwering G., Seo E.S., Shakfa Z., Shan B.S., Siedenburg T., Solano C., Song J.W., Song X.J., Sonnabend R., Strigari L., Su T., Sun Q., Sun Z.T., Tacconi M., Tang X.W., Tang Z.C., Tian J., Ting S.C.C., Ting S.M., Tomassetti N., Torsti J., Tuysuz C., Urban T., Usoskin I., Vagelli V., Vainio R., Valencia-Otero M., Valente E., Valtonen E., Vazquez Acosta M., Vecchi M., Velasco M., Vialle J.P., Wang C.X., Wang L., Wang L.Q., Wang N.H., Wang Q.L., Wang S., Wang X., Wang Y., Wang Z.M., Wei J., Weng Z.L., Wu H., Xiong R.Q., Xu W., Yan Q., Yang Y., Yashin I.I., Yi H., Yu Y.M., Yu Z.Q., Zannoni M., Zhang C., Zhang F., Zhang F.Z., Zhang J.H., Zhang Z., Zhao F., Zheng C., Zheng Z.M., Zhuang H.L., Zhukov V., Zichichi A., Zuccon P., Aguilar, M, Cavasonza, L, Allen, M, Alpat, B, Ambrosi, G, Arruda, L, Attig, N, Barao, F, Barrin, L, Bartoloni, A, Başeğmez-du Pree, S, Battiston, R, Behlmann, M, Beranek, B, Berdugo, J, Bertucci, B, Bindi, V, Bollweg, K, Borgia, B, Boschini, M, Bourquin, M, Bueno, E, Burger, J, Burger, W, Burmeister, S, Cai, X, Capell, M, Casaus, J, Castellini, G, Cervelli, F, Chang, Y, Chen, G, Chen, H, Chen, Y, Cheng, L, Chou, H, Chouridou, S, Choutko, V, Chung, C, Clark, C, Coignet, G, Consolandi, C, Contin, A, Corti, C, Cui, Z, Dadzie, K, Delgado, C, Della Torre, S, Demirköz, M, Derome, L, Di Falco, S, Di Felice, V, Díaz, C, Dimiccoli, F, von Doetinchem, P, Dong, F, Donnini, F, Duranti, M, Egorov, A, Eline, A, Feng, J, Fiandrini, E, Fisher, P, Formato, V, Freeman, C, Galaktionov, Y, Gámez, C, García-López, R, Gargiulo, C, Gast, H, Gervasi, M, Giovacchini, F, Gómez-Coral, D, Gong, J, Goy, C, Grabski, V, Grandi, D, Graziani, M, Haino, S, Han, K, Hashmani, R, He, Z, Heber, B, Hsieh, T, Hu, J, Incagli, M, Jang, W, Jia, Y, Jinchi, H, Kanishev, K, Khiali, B, Kim, G, Kirn, T, Konyushikhin, M, Kounina, O, Kounine, A, Koutsenko, V, Kuhlman, A, Kulemzin, A, La Vacca, G, Laudi, E, Laurenti, G, Lazzizzera, I, Lebedev, A, Lee, H, Lee, S, Li, J, Li, M, Li, Q, Li, S, Li, Z, Liang, J, Light, C, Lin, C, Lippert, T, Liu, J, Liu, Z, Lu, S, Lu, Y, Luebelsmeyer, K, Luo, J, Luo, X, Lyu, S, Machate, F, Mañá, C, Marín, J, Marquardt, J, Martin, T, Martínez, G, Masi, N, Maurin, D, Menchaca-Rocha, A, Meng, Q, Mikhailov, V, Mo, D, Molero, M, Mott, P, Mussolin, L, Negrete, J, Nikonov, N, Nozzoli, F, Oliva, A, Orcinha, M, Palermo, M, Palmonari, F, Paniccia, M, Pashnin, A, Pauluzzi, M, Pensotti, S, Phan, H, Piandani, R, Plyaskin, V, Poluianov, S, Qin, X, Qu, Z, Quadrani, L, Rancoita, P, Rapin, D, Conde, A, Robyn, E, Rosier-Lees, S, Rozhkov, A, Rozza, D, Sagdeev, R, Schael, S, Schulz von Dratzig, A, Schwering, G, Seo, E, Shakfa, Z, Shan, B, Siedenburg, T, Solano, C, Song, J, Song, X, Sonnabend, R, Strigari, L, Su, T, Sun, Q, Sun, Z, Tacconi, M, Tang, X, Tang, Z, Tian, J, Ting, S, Tomassetti, N, Torsti, J, Tüysüz, C, Urban, T, Usoskin, I, Vagelli, V, Vainio, R, Valencia-Otero, M, Valente, E, Valtonen, E, Vázquez Acosta, M, Vecchi, M, Velasco, M, Vialle, J, Wang, C, Wang, L, Wang, N, Wang, Q, Wang, S, Wang, X, Wang, Y, Wang, Z, Wei, J, Weng, Z, Wu, H, Xiong, R, Xu, W, Yan, Q, Yang, Y, Yashin, I, Yi, H, Yu, Y, Yu, Z, Zannoni, M, Zhang, C, Zhang, F, Zhang, J, Zhang, Z, Zhao, F, Zheng, C, Zheng, Z, Zhuang, H, Zhukov, V, Zichichi, A, and Zuccon, P
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General Physics and Astronomy ,Galactic cosmic rays ,01 natural sciences ,Power law ,Rigidity (electromagnetism) ,Alpha magnetic spectrometer ,Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ,AMS ,Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,cosmic radiation: propagation ,Galactic cosmic rays, AMS ,ratio [flux] ,secondary [cosmic radiation] ,Cosmic ray flux ,Flux ratio ,3. Good health ,Cosmic ray propagation ,Astrophysics and Astronomy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,satellite ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Cosmic ray ,ddc:500.2 ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,helium ,Gravitation and Astrophysics ,Nuclear physics ,FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA ,Flux (metallurgy) ,fluorine ,0103 physical sciences ,spectra, Cosmic ray propagation, Cosmic ray sources, Cosmic rays & ,Cosmic ray composition & ,ddc:530 ,010306 general physics ,cosmic radiation: secondary ,Alpha magnetic spectrometer experiment ,Power-law ,International Space station ,magnetic spectrometer ,flux: ratio ,Automatic Keywords ,chemistry ,Propagation properties ,Fluorine ,propagation [cosmic radiation] ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,oxygen ,astroparticles, Particle astrophysic - Abstract
International audience; 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 $R$ 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 $^{\textrm{F/Si}}_{\textrm{B/O}}$ ratio can be described by a power law $R^δ$ with $δ=0.052±0.007$. 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.
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- 2021