Upturn observed in heavy nuclei to iron ratios by the ATIC-2 experiment

Autor: Panov, A. D., Sokolskaya, N. V., Zatsepin, V. I., Adams, J. H., Ahn, H. S., Bashindzhagyan, G. L., Chang, J., Christl, M., Fazely, A. R., Guzik, T. G., Isbert, J., Kim, K. C., Kouznetsov, E. N., Panasyuk, M. I., Seo, E. S., Watts, J. W., Wefel, J. P., Wu, J.
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 409 (2013) 012036
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/409/1/012036
Popis: The ratios of fluxes of heavy nuclei from sulfur (Z=16) to chromium (Z=24) to the flux of iron were measured by the ATIC-2 experiment. The ratios are decreasing functions of energy from 5 GeV/n to approximately 80 GeV/n, as expected. However, an unexpected sharp upturn in the ratios are observed for energies above 100 GeV/n for all elements from Z=16 to Z=24. Similar upturn but with lower amplitude was also discovered in the ATIC-2 data for the ratio of fluxes of abundant even nuclei (C, O, Ne, Mg, Si) to the flux of iron. Therefore the spectrum of iron is significantly different from the spectra of other abundant even nuclei.
Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX2e, a paper for 23rd European Cosmic Ray Symposium (2012)
Databáze: arXiv