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Properties of Cosmic Lithium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 134, no. 20, 201001
Publication date2025
First online date2025-05-20
Abstract

We present the first measurement of cosmic-ray fluxes of Li6 and Li7 isotopes in the rigidity range from 1.9 to 25 GV. The measurements are based on 0.97 million Li6 and 1.04 million Li7 nuclei collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station from May 2011 to October 2023. We observe that over the entire rigidity range the Li6 and Li7 fluxes exhibit nearly identical time variations and, above ∼4 GV, the time variations of Li6, Li7, He, Be, B, C, N, and O fluxes are identical. Above ∼7 GV, we find an identical rigidity dependence of the Li6 and Li7 fluxes. This shows that they are both produced by collisions of heavier cosmic-ray nuclei with the interstellar medium and, in particular, excludes the existence of a sizable primary component in the Li7 flux.

Keywords
  • Cosmic rays
  • Lithium isotopes
  • Cosmic lithium
  • AMS
  • Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
  • International Space Station
Research groups
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 - [2021-43-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 - [2024.00992.CERN]
  • 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]
  • Fondation Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny - AMS
  • 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 Araştırma Kurumu - [2020TAEK(CERN)A5.H1.F5-26]
  • National Science Foundation - [2013228]
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration - [80NSSC20K1819]
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -
  • Johnson Space Center -
  • Marshall Space Flight Center -
  • Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, China -
  • Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías - [CF-2019/2042]
  • ANSWERS -
  • Fondation Dr. Manfred Steuer -
Citation (ISO format)
BOURQUIN, Maurice et al. Properties of Cosmic Lithium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. In: Physical review letters, 2025, vol. 134, n° 20, p. 201001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.201001
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