Volume 501 - 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025) - Cosmic-Ray Direct & Acceleration
The BESS-Polar II lower-energy antiproton flux using the upper-middle TOF trigger mode
K. Sakai*, K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, M. Hasegawa, H. Jeon, K.C. Kim, M.H. Lee, Y. Makida, J.W. Mitchell, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Orito, J.F. Ormes, M. Sasaki, E.S. Seo, R.E. Streitmatter, N. Thakur, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida and K. Yoshimura
*: corresponding author
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Abstract
To observe cosmic-origin antiparticles, it is crucial to mitigate the astrophysical background.
One approach involved searching for background-free antideuterons/antihelium; however, no viable candidates were identified.
Consequently, we extended our antiproton observations to the lower-energy region below 0.2 GeV, where the contribution from secondary particles is minimized, and explored the potential signatures of dark matter in the $4.7 \times 10^{9}$ cosmic ray events recorded by BESS-Polar II during the solar activity minimum in 2007.
We modified the trigger conditions to utilize the middle time-of-flight (TOF), effectively reducing the amount of passing material by half.
We will report the details of the analysis and the lower-energy antiproton flux measured by BESS-Polar II.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0126
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