Conveners
Cosmic Rays - 1
- Philipp Mertsch (TTK, RWTH Aachen University)
- Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
The data collected by the satellite-borne PAMELA experiment, launched in June 2006, opened a new era of high-precision studies of cosmic rays. The PAMELA low detection energy threashold and long operativity enabled accurate measurements of the fluxes of several cosmic-ray species over a large energy range and the study of their time variation below a few tens of GeVs. In particular, these...
When traveling inside the heliosphere, cosmic rays are influenced by magnetic turbulence and solar wind disturbances, which result in the so-called solar modulation effect. Understanding solar modulation is essential for studying the origin and the propagation processes of Galactic cosmic rays, as well as for establishing of predictive models of energetic radiation in space. In this talk, we...
Cosmic Rays (CR) inside the Heliosphere interact with the solar wind and with the interplanetary magnetic field, resulting in a temporal variation of the cosmic ray intensity near Earth for rigidities up to few tens of GV. This variation is known as Solar Modulation. Previous AMS results on proton and helium spectra showed how the two fluxes behave differently in time. To better understand...
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, AMS-02, is a magnetic spectrometer detector operating on the International Space Station (ISS) since May the 19th, 2011. The latest precision results on cosmic-ray electrons up to 1.4 TeV and positrons up to 1 TeV are providing new insights into the origin of high energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. In the entire energy range the electron and positron...
The High-Energy Particle Detector (HEPD-01) onboard the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01) - launched in February 2018 - is a light and compact payload suitable for measuring electrons (3-100 MeV), protons (30-300 MeV), and light nuclei (up to a few hundreds of MeV) with a high energy resolution and a wide angular acceptance. The very good capabilities in particle detection and...
Since its launch, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02) has delivered outstanding quality measurements of the spectra of cosmic-ray (CR) species (p¯, e±) and nuclei (H–Si, Fe), which resulted in a number of breakthroughs. Spectra of heavier low-abundance nuclei are not expected until later in the mission. Consequently, we exploited a “fraction” of HEAO-3-C2 data that match available...
