2005年
Observation of low energy antiprotons at the 2004 BESS-Polar flight in Antarctica
Proceedings of the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Vol 3: OG1
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- 25
- 終了ページ
- 28
- 記述言語
- 英語
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- 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
- 出版者・発行元
- TATA INST FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH
A flatter spectrum of low-energy cosmic ray antiprotons below 1 GeV measured by the BESS experiment in the last solar minimum period suggests the existence of possible novel and exotic sources of cosmic-ray antiprotons, such as evaporation of primordial black holes and annihilation of supersymmetric dark matter. In order to investigate these antiproton sources and to search for antimatter in the cosmic radiation, the BESS-Polar experiment was carried out with a NASA long duration balloon flight over Antarctica in December 2004. During this 8.5-day flight, the BESS-Polar superconducting spectrometer gathered 900 million cosmic-ray events. The data show that the newly developed particle detector system functioned well enough to observe the low energy antiprotons during the entire flight. Thus' we can expect to derive a precise energy spectrum of the low-energy antiprotons with several-times higher statistics than that from the flight of the previous solar minimum period.
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- Web of Science ID : WOS:000243522100007