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ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF LIGHT NUCLEI IN COSMIC RAYS: RESULTS FROM AMS-01

Creators

  • 1. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid (Spain)
  • 2. European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 3. INFN-Sezione di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia (Italy)
  • 4. Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, ETH Zuerich, CH-8093 Zuerich (Switzerland)
  • 5. Chinese Academy of Launching Vehicle Technology, CALT, 100076 Beijing (China)
  • 6. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP, Moscow 117259 (Russian Federation)
  • 7. Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas, LIP, P-1000 Lisboa (Portugal)
  • 8. Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Universita di Bologna, I-40126 Bologna (Italy)
  • 9. INFN-Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma (Italy)
  • 10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)

Description

The variety of isotopes in cosmic rays allows us to study different aspects of the processes that cosmic rays undergo between the time they are produced and the time of their arrival in the heliosphere. In this paper, we present measurements of the isotopic ratios 2H/4He, 3He/4He, 6Li/7Li, 7Be/(9Be+10Be), and 10B/11B in the range 0.2-1.4 GeV of kinetic energy per nucleon. The measurements are based on the data collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, AMS-01, during the STS-91 flight in 1998 June.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/736/2/105

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/736/2/105;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
736
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOAB

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43055988
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BERYLLIUM 10; BERYLLIUM 7; BERYLLIUM 9; BORON 10; BORON 11; COSMIC RADIATION; DEUTERIUM; HELIOSPHERE; HELIUM 3; HELIUM 4; ISOTOPE RATIO; LITHIUM 6; LITHIUM 7; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS
Descriptors DEC
ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ATMOSPHERES; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BORON ISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HELIUM ISOTOPES; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; LITHIUM ISOTOPES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLAR ATMOSPHERE; SPECTROMETERS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STELLAR ATMOSPHERES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES