The PAMELA Mission: Heralding a new era in precision cosmic ray physics

O Adriani, GC Barbarino, GA Bazilevskaya, R Bellotti… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
On the 15th of June 2006, the PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-
nuclei Astrophysics) satellite-borne experiment was launched onboard the Russian Resurs …

Precision measurement of the boron to carbon flux ratio in cosmic rays from 1.9 GV to 2.6 TV with the alpha magnetic spectrometer on the international space station

M Aguilar, L Ali Cavasonza, G Ambrosi, L Arruda… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Knowledge of the rigidity dependence of the boron to carbon flux ratio (B/C) is important in
understanding the propagation of cosmic rays. The precise measurement of the B/C ratio …

Observation of new properties of secondary cosmic rays lithium, beryllium, and boron by the alpha magnetic spectrometer on the international space station

M Aguilar, L Ali Cavasonza, G Ambrosi, L Arruda… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We report on the observation of new properties of secondary cosmic rays Li, Be, and B
measured in the rigidity (momentum per unit charge) range 1.9 GV to 3.3 TV with a total of …

Measurement of boron and carbon fluxes in cosmic rays with the PAMELA experiment

O Adriani, GC Barbarino, GA Bazilevskaya… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The propagation of cosmic rays inside our galaxy plays a fundamental role in shaping their
injection spectra into those observed at Earth. One of the best tools to investigate this issue …

Origin of the cosmic-ray spectral hardening

N Tomassetti - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent data from ATIC, CREAM, and PAMELA indicate that the cosmic-ray energy spectra of
protons and nuclei exhibit a remarkable hardening at energies above 100 GeV nucleon− 1 …

A database of charged cosmic rays

D Maurin, F Melot, R Taillet - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 - aanda.org
Aims. This paper gives a description of a new online database and associated online tools
(data selection, data export, plots, etc.) for charged cosmic-ray measurements. The …

Detection of spectral hardenings in cosmic-ray boron-to-carbon and boron-to-oxygen flux ratios with DAMPE

Dampe Collaboration - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Boron nuclei in cosmic rays (CRs) are believed to be mainly produced by the fragmentation
of heavier nuclei, such as carbon and oxygen, via collisions with the interstellar matter …

Implications of current nuclear cross sections on secondary cosmic rays with the upcoming DRAGON2 code

PDLT Luque, MN Mazziotta, F Loparco… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Current measurements of cosmic-ray fluxes have reached unprecedented accuracy thanks
to the new generation of experiments, and in particular the AMS-02 mission. At the same …

Cosmic-ray protons, nuclei, electrons, and antiparticles under a two-halo scenario of diffusive propagation

N Tomassetti - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We report calculations of cosmic-ray proton, nuclei, antiproton, electron and positron energy
spectra within a “two-halo model” of diffusive transport. The two halos represent a simple …

Energy spectra of primary and secondary cosmic-ray nuclei measured with TRACER

A Obermeier, M Ave, P Boyle, C Höppner… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation (TRACER)
cosmic-ray detector, first flown on long-duration balloon (LDB) in 2003 for observations of …