29 July 2015 to 6 August 2015
World Forum
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Precision Measurement of the (e++e−) Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

31 Jul 2015, 11:30
15m
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Oral contribution CR-EX Parallel CR04 e+ e-

Speaker

Matteo Duranti (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

Description

We present a measurement of the cosmic ray (e$^{+}$+e$^{−}$) flux in the range 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV based on the analysis of 10.6 million (e$^{+}$+e$^{−}$) events collected by AMS. The statistics and the resolution of AMS provide a precision measurement of the flux. The flux is smooth and reveals new and distinct information. AMS measurements of individual e$^{+}$ and e$^{−}$ fluxes show neither e$^{+}$ nor e$^{−}$ can be described by a single power law above 27.2 and 52.3 GeV, respectively. Surprisingly, above 30.2 GeV, the combined (e$^{+}$+e$^{−}$) flux can be described accurately by a single power law with a spectral index $\gamma$=-3.170±0.008(stat+syst) ±0.008(energy scale).
Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" 370
Collaboration AMS

Author

Matteo Duranti (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

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