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Cosmic Ray Antiprotons 5–12 GeV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

T. K. Gaisser ,
A. J. Owens  and
Gary Steigman
T. K. Gaisser
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711
A. J. Owens
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711
Gary Steigman
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711

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Secondary antiprotons are a potentially interesting probe of cosmic ray propagation because their production cross section is strongly energy-dependent, increasing by more than two orders of magnitude between 10 and 1000 GeV/c. This is quite unlike the case for fragmentation cross sections of complex nuclei, which are virtually constant with energy. Moreover, the flux depends primarily on the environment seen by protons which need not be identical to that probed by other nuclei.

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Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 94: Origin of Cosmic Rays , 1981 , pp. 257 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

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