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
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Becker, Ulrich J.; Behlmann, Matthew Daniel; Burger, Joseph D.; Cai, Xudong; Capell, Michael H.; Carosi, G.; Chen, Andrew I.; 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.; 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; ... Show more Show less
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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.
Date issued
2014-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Accardo, L., M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, G. Ambrosi, K. Andeen, et al. “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.” Physical Review Letters 113, no. 12 (September 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114