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Precision Measurement of the(e++e)Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Author(s) -
M. Aguilar,
D. Aisa,
B. Alpat,
A. Alvino,
G. Ambrosi,
K. Andeen,
L. Arruda,
N. Attig,
P. Azzarello,
A. Bachlechner,
F. Barão,
Aurélien Barrau,
L. Barrin,
A. Bartoloni,
L. Basara,
Markus Battarbee,
R. Battiston,
J. Bazo,
U. Becker,
M. Behlmann,
B. Beischer,
J. Berdugo,
B. Bertucci,
G. Bigongiari,
V. Bindi,
S. Bizzaglia,
M. Bizzarri,
G. Boella,
W. De Boer,
K. Bollweg,
V. Bonnivard,
B. Borgia,
S. Borsini,
M. Boschini,
M. Bourquin,
J.D. Burger,
F. Cadoux,
Xudong Cai,
M. Capell,
Sami Caroff,
J. Casaus,
Vincenzo Cascioli,
G. Castellini,
I. Cernuda,
F. Cervelli,
M. J. Chae,
Yuan-Hann Chang,
A. I. Chen,
H. Chen,
Cheng Gong,
H. S. Chen,
Lin Cheng,
A. Chikanian,
H. Y. Chou,
E. Choumilov,
V. Choutko,
C. H. Chung,
C. Clark,
R. Clavero,
G. Coignet,
C. Consolandi,
A. Contin,
C. Corti,
B. Coste,
M. Crispoltoni,
Z. Cui,
Min Dai,
C. Delgado Mendez,
S. Della Torre,
B. Demirköz,
L. Derome,
S. Di Falco,
L. Di Masso,
F. Dimiccoli,
C. Díaz,
P. von Doetinchem,
F. Donnini,
W. J. Du,
M. Duranti,
D. D’Urso,
A. Eline,
F.J. Eppling,
T. Eronen,
Yi-Zhong Fan,
L. Farnesini,
J. H. Feng,
E. Fiandrini,
A. Fiaßon,
E. Finch,
P.H. Fisher,
Yu. Galaktionov,
G. Gallucci,
B. Garćıa,
R. J. Garcı́a López,
Corrado Gargiulo,
H. Gast,
Iris Gebauer,
M. Gervasi,
A. Ghelfi,
W. Gillard,
F. Giovacchini,
P. Goglov,
J. Gong,
C. Goy,
Varlen Grabski,
D. Grandi,
M. Graziani,
C. Guandalini,
I. Guerri,
K. H. Guo,
M. Habiby,
S. Haino,
K. C. Han,
Z. H. He,
M. Heil,
J. Hoffman,
Timothy H. Hsieh,
Z. C. Huang,
C. Huh,
M. Incagli,
M. Ionica,
W. Jang,
H. Jinchi,
K. Kanishev,
G. N. Kim,
K. S. Kim,
Th. Kirn,
R. Kossakowski,
O. Kounina,
A. Kounine,
V. Koutsenko,
M. S. Krafczyk,
Simon Kunz,
G. La Vacca,
E. Laudi,
G. Laurenti,
I. Lazzizzera,
A. Lebedev,
H. T. Lee,
S. C. Lee,
C. Leluc,
H. L. Li,
Qiang Li,
Q. Li,
T. X. Li,
W. Li,
Y. Li,
Z. H. Li,
Z. Y. Li,
Soobin Lim,
ChaoHung Lin,
P. Lipari,
Thomas Lippert,
D. Liu,
H. Liu,
T. Lomtadze,
M. Lu,
Yudong Lu,
K. Luebelsmeyer,
Feng Luo,
Junzhou Luo,
S. S. Lv,
R. Majka,
A. Malinin,
C. Mañá,
J. Marín,
T. Martin,
Gustavo Martínez,
N. Masi,
D. Maurin,
A. Menchaca-Rocha,
Q. Meng,
Dong-Chuan Mo,
L. Morescalchi,
P. Mott,
M. Müller,
J. Q. Ni,
N. Nikonov,
F. Nozzoli,
Pedro Nunes,
Andreas Obermeier,
A. Oliva,
M. Orcinha,
F. Palmonari,
C. Palomares,
M. Paniccia,
Alberto Papi,
M. Pauluzzi,
E. Pedreschi,
S. Pensotti,
R. M. Faisca Rodrigues Pereira,
F. Pilo,
A. Piluso,
C. Pizzolotto,
V. Plyaskin,
M. Pohl,
V. Poireau,
E. Postaci,
A. Putze,
L. Quadrani,
X. M. Qi,
T. Räihä,
P.G. Rancoita,
D. Rapin,
J. S. Ricol,
I. Rodríguez,
S. Rosier-Lees,
A. Rozhkov,
D. Rozza,
R. Z. Sagdeev,
J. Sandweiss,
P. Saouter,
C. Sbarra,
S. Schael,
Susann Schmidt,
D. Schuckardt,
A. Schulz von Dratzig,
G. Schwering,
G. Scolieri,
E. S. Seo,
B. S. Shan,
Y. H. Shan,
J. Y. Shi,
X-H. Shi,
Ying Shi,
T. Siedenburg,
D. Son,
F. Spada,
F. Spinella,
W. H. Sun,
M. Tacconi,
Chengpei Tang,
Xiao Tang,
Zhi-Cheng Tang,
L. Y. Tao,
D. Tescaro,
Samuel C.C. Ting,
S.M. Ting,
Nicola Tomassetti,
J. Torsti,
C. Türkoğlu,
T. Urban,
V. Vagelli,
E. Valente,
C. Vannini,
E. Valtonen,
S. S. Vaurynovich,
M. Vecchi,
M. Velasco,
J. P. Vialle,
L. Q. Wang,
Qiuliang Wang,
R. S. Wang,
X. Wang,
Z. X. Wang,
Z. Weng,
Kathryn Whitman,
J. Wienkenhöver,
H. Wu,
X. M. Xia,
Min Xie,
S. Xie,
R. Q. Xiong,
Gongming Xin,
N. S. Xu,
W. Xu,
Qi Yan,
J. Yang,
Min Yang,
Q. H. Ye,
Han Yi,
Yaxin Yu,
Z. Q. Yu,
S. Zeissler,
J. H. Zhang,
M. T. Zhang,
X. B. Zhang,
Z. Zhang,
Z. M. Zheng,
H. L. Zhuang,
V. Zhukov,
A. Zichichi,
N. Zimmermann,
P. Zuccon,
C. Zurbach
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.113.221102
Subject(s) - physics
See paper for full list of authors –International audienceWe present a measurement of the cosmic ray (e++e−) flux in the range 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV based on the analysis of 10.6 million (e++e−) events collected by AMS. The statistics and the resolution of AMS provide a precision measurement of the flux. The flux is smooth and reveals new and distinct information. Above 30.2 GeV, the flux can be described by a single power law with a spectral index γ=−3.170±0.008(stat+syst)±0.008(energy scale)

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