Volume 395 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - CRD - Cosmic Ray Direct
Precision Measurement of Cosmic Ray Deuterons with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
E. Ferronato Bueno*, F. Barão, J. Berdugo, C. Delgado, F. Dimiccoli, D. Gómez-Coral, M. Vecchi, P. Zuccon and P. von Doetinchem
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Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) has been operating aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since May 2011. Deuterons represent about 1$\%$ of the single-charged cosmic-ray nuclei. They are mainly produced by fragmentation reactions of primary cosmic 4He nuclei on the interstellar medium and represent a very sensitive tool to verify and constrain CR propagation models in the galaxy. Given the smaller cross-section for 4He- larger D with respect to C- larger B, the deuteron flux provides additional information about the propagation of cosmic rays compared to the cosmic B/C ratio. Precise particle rigidity and velocity measurements and a large acceptance enable separating deuterons from abundant protons in the rigidity range from 1.92 to 21.1 GV. Precision measurements of the deuteron flux obtained with a high-statistics data sample collected by the AMS-02 during its 8.5 years of operation on the International Space Station will be presented.
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