Volume 501 - 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025) - Cosmic-Ray Direct & Acceleration
Update of the Helium flux measurement with CALET on the International Space Station
P. Brogi*, K. Kobayashi, M. Mattiazzi  on behalf of the CALET Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: September 23, 2025
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Abstract
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a space-based calorimetric instrument, designed to carry out precise measurements of high energy cosmic rays. Installed on the Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility on the ISS, it is collecting data with excellent performance and no significant interruptions since October 2015. We present the updated results of the direct measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic-ray helium, based on more than 9 years of collected data, with an expected statistical increase of about 40% compared with the previously published measurement. The helium flux shows significant deviations from a single power law with a progressive hardening around a few hundred GeV followed by a softening in the multi-TeV region. The increase in statistics allows to extend the upper limit of the measured energy range and to improve the precision of the measurement itself in the high energy part of the spectrum.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0019
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