Spatial-dependent propagation of cosmic rays results in spectrum of proton, ratios of , B/C AND anisotropy of nuclei
Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China)
Description
Recent precise measurements of cosmic ray spectra revealed an anomalous hardening at ∼200 GV, observed by the ATIC, CREAM, PAMELA, and AMS02 experiments. Particularly, the latest observation of the ratio by AMS02 demonstrated a flat distribution, which further validated the spectral anomalies of secondary particles. All those new phenomena indicated that the conventional propagation model of cosmic rays meets a challenge. In this work, the spatial-dependent diffusion coefficient is employed by tracing the source distribution under the physical picture of the two-halo model in the DRAGON package. Under such a scenario, the model calculation will result in two-component spectra for primary nuclei. Due to the smaller rigidity dependence of in the galactic disk, the ratios secondary-to-primary will inevitably be flatter and the expected anisotropy of cosmic rays will be much more attenuated than in the conventional model. As a result, we can reproduce the spectral hardening of protons, the flat ratios of and B/C, and consistent anisotropy from ∼100 GeV to ∼100 TeV by only adopting one set of spatial-dependent diffusion coefficients in a galactic disk.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/54Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Astrophysical Journal
- Journal Volume
- 819
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Since 2009, the country of publication for this journal is the UK.
- Journal Page Range
- [6 p.]
- ISSN
- 0004-637X
- CODEN
- ASJOAB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51049280
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANISOTROPY; COSMIC RADIATION; DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION; GEV RANGE 100-1000; SPECTRAL HARDENING; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; ENERGY RANGE; GEV RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; RADIATIONS