Scientific article
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Antiprotons and Elementary Particles over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 134, no. 5, 051002
Publication date2025
First online date2025-02-03
Abstract

We present results over an 11-year Solar cycle of cosmic antiprotons based on 1.1×10^{6} events in the rigidity range from 1.00 to 41.9 GV. The p[over ¯] fluxes exhibit distinct properties. The magnitude of the p[over ¯] flux temporal variation is significantly smaller than those of p, e^{-}, and e^{+}. A hysteresis between the p[over ¯] fluxes and the p fluxes is observed, whereas the p[over ¯] and e^{-} fluxes show a linear correlation. With a model-independent analysis, we found a universal relation between the shape of the rigidity spectrum and the magnitude of flux temporal variation over an 11-year Solar cycle for both positively and negatively charged particles. The simultaneous results on p[over ¯] and p, e^{-}, and e^{+} provide unique information for understanding particle transport in the Solar System as a function of mass, charge, and spectral shape.

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Funding
  • U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
  • National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
  • CERN
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of High Energy Physics
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China [12275158]
  • Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China [2022YFA1604802]
  • China Scholarship Council
  • Government of Shandong Province
  • Government of Jiangsu Province
  • Government of Guangdong Province
  • Shandong University
  • Research Council of Finland [321882]
  • Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia [301123]
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
  • Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [50OO1803]
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
  • Agenzia Spaziale Italiana [2019-19-HH.0]
  • Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [680-1-004]
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [CERN/FIS-PAR/0013/2019]
  • Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
  • Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • Agencia Estatal de Investigación
  • European Regional Development Fund [PID2022-137810NB-C21/C22]
  • Academia Sinica
  • National Science and Technology Council
  • Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [111-2123-M-001-004]
  • National Cheng Kung University
  • Türkiye Enerji, Nükleer ve Maden Ara?t?rma Kurumu [2020TAEK(CERN)A5.H1.F5-26]
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration [80NSSC20K1819]
  • Johnson Space Center
  • Marshall Space Flight Center
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
  • Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, China
  • Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías [CF-2019/2042]
  • ANSWERS
  • Fondation Dr. Manfred Steuer
  • National Science Foundation - Cosmic-ray Antinuclei as Messengers of New Physics [2013228]
Citation (ISO format)
BOURQUIN, Maurice et al. Antiprotons and Elementary Particles over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. In: Physical review letters, 2025, vol. 134, n° 5, p. 051002. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.051002
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