Measurements of primary and atmospheric cosmic-ray spectra with the BESS-TeV spectrometer

By S. Haino, T. Sanuki, K. Abe, K. Anraku, Y. Asaoka, H. Fuke, M. Imori, A. Itasaki, T. Maeno, Y. Makida and 23 more. 2004

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Abstract Primary and atmospheric cosmic-ray spectra were precisely measured with the BESS-TeV spectrometer. The spectrometer was upgraded from BESS-98 to achieve seven times higher resolution in momentum measurement. We report absolute fluxes of primary protons and helium nuclei in the energy ranges, 1–540 GeV and 1–250 GeV/n, respectively, and absolute flux of atmospheric muons in the momentum range 0.6–400 GeV/c.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• DISCREPANT HARDENING OBSERVED IN COSMIC-RAY ELEMENTAL SPECTRA (2010, background): “The latter have provided primary cosmic-ray energy spectra with rather good precision at energies up to ~10 11 eV/nucleon (e.g., Engelmann et al. 1990; Müller et al. 1991; Aguilar et al. 2002; Haino et al. 2004).”
• Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy (2006, methodology): “However, the Milagro trigger rate as determined from simulations of protons and helium using the flux from direct measurements (Haino et al. 2004 & Asakimori et al.1998) is underpredicted, so a systematic error of 30% is given to the gamma-ray fluxes quoted here.”
• THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION (2009, methodology): “The AMS (Aguilar et al. 2002) and BESS (Haino et al. 2004) experiments provided important and accurate new measurements of the spectra of the protons and alpha particles, the most abundant of the various galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) components.”
• A database of charged cosmic rays (2013, unknown): “…Myers et al. (2003); Shikaze et al. (2007) – BESS98 (1998/07): Sanuki et al. (2000); Maeno et al. (2001); Myers et al. (2003); Shikaze et al. (2007) – BESS99 (1999/08): Asaoka et al. (2002); Shikaze et al. (2007) – BESS00 (2000/08): Asaoka et al. (2002); Shikaze et al. (2007) – BESS-TeV…”
• COSMIC-RAY PROTON AND HELIUM SPECTRA FROM THE FIRST CREAM FLIGHT (2011, background): “Likewise, the CREAM helium spectrum is harder than AMS, 2.740 ± 0.01 at 20−200 GV and BESS, 2.699 ± 0.040 from 20 GeV nucleon−1 to a few hundred GeV nucleon−1.”