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High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–500 GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Authors :
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Becker, Ulrich J.
Behlmann, Matthew Daniel
Burger, Joseph D.
Cai, Xudong
Capell, Michael H.
Carosi, G.
Chen, Andrew I.
Chen, Hai
Choumilov, Evgueni
Choutko, Vitali
Eline, Alexandre
Eppling, Frederic J.
Fisher, Peter H.
Galaktionov, Y.
Goglov, Pavel
Heil, Melanie
Henning, R.
Hsieh, Timothy Hwa-wei
Kounina, Olga
Kounine, Andrei
Koutsenko, Vladimir
Krafczyk, Matthew Scott
Lebedev, Alexei
Li, Q.
Monreal, Benjamin
Plyaskin, Vasily
Rozhkov, Andrey B.
Rybka, G.
Shi, X. Y.
Sun, Wei
Sun, W. H.
Ting, Samuel C. C.
Ting, Susan Marks
Vaurynovich, Siarhei S.
Wang, Xiaozhen
Weng, Zhili
Xie, M.
Xu, Weiwei
Zhou, F.
Zuccon, Paolo
Monreal, Benjamin, 1977
Chen, Hai, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Becker, Ulrich J.
Behlmann, Matthew Daniel
Burger, Joseph D.
Cai, Xudong
Capell, Michael H.
Carosi, G.
Chen, Andrew I.
Chen, Hai
Choumilov, Evgueni
Choutko, Vitali
Eline, Alexandre
Eppling, Frederic J.
Fisher, Peter H.
Galaktionov, Y.
Goglov, Pavel
Heil, Melanie
Henning, R.
Hsieh, Timothy Hwa-wei
Kounina, Olga
Kounine, Andrei
Koutsenko, Vladimir
Krafczyk, Matthew Scott
Lebedev, Alexei
Li, Q.
Monreal, Benjamin
Plyaskin, Vasily
Rozhkov, Andrey B.
Rybka, G.
Shi, X. Y.
Sun, Wei
Sun, W. H.
Ting, Samuel C. C.
Ting, Susan Marks
Vaurynovich, Siarhei S.
Wang, Xiaozhen
Weng, Zhili
Xie, M.
Xu, Weiwei
Zhou, F.
Zuccon, Paolo
Monreal, Benjamin, 1977
Chen, Hai, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Source :
APS
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

A precision measurement by AMS of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays in the energy range from 0.5 to 500 GeV based on 10.9 million positron and electron events is presented. This measurement extends the energy range of our previous observation and increases its precision. The new results show, for the first time, that above ∼200 GeV the positron fraction no longer exhibits an increase with energy.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Journal :
APS
Notes :
application/pdf, en_US
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1141879842
Document Type :
Electronic Resource