Precision Measurement of Cosmic-Ray Nitrogen and its Primary and Secondary Components with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

A precision measurement of the nitrogen flux with rigidity (momentum per unit charge) from 2.2 GV to 3.3 TV based on 2.2×10[superscript 6] events is presented. The detailed rigidity dependence of the nitrogen flux spectral index is presented for the first time. The spectral index rapidly hardens at...

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Main Authors: Aguilar, M., Ali Cavasonza, L., Alpat, B., Ambrosi, G., Arruda, L., Attig, N., Aupetit, S., Azzarello, P., Bachlechner, A., Barao, F., Barrau, A., Barrin, L., Bartoloni, A., Basara, L., Başeğmez-du Pree, S., Battarbee, M., Battiston, R., Beischer, B., Berdugo, J., Bertucci, B., Bindel, K. F., Bindi, V., de Boer, W., Bollweg, K., Bonnivard, V., Borgia, B., Boschini, M. J., Bourquin, M., Bueno, E. F., Burger, W. J., Caroff, S., Casaus, J., Castellini, G., Cervelli, F., Chang, Y. H., Chen, G. M., Chen, H. S., Chen, Y., Cheng, L., Chou, H. Y., Chung, C. H., Clark, C., Clavero, R., Coignet, G., Consolandi, C., Contin, A., Corti, C., Creus, W., Crispoltoni, M., Cui, Z., Dai, Y. M., Datta, A., Delgado, C., Della Torre, S., Demirköz, M. B., Derome, L., Di Falco, S., Dimiccoli, F., Díaz, C., von Doetinchem, P., Dong, F., Donnini, F., Duranti, M., Eronen, T., Fiandrini, E., Formato, V., Gallucci, G., García-López, R. J., Gargiulo, C., Gast, H., Gebauer, I., Gervasi, M., Ghelfi, A., Giovacchini, F., Gómez-Coral, D. M., Gong, J., Goy, C., Grabski, V., Grandi, D., Graziani, M., Guo, K. H., Haino, S., Han, K. C., He, Z. H., Huang, H., Huang, Z. C., Incagli, M., Jinchi, H., Kanishev, K., Khiali, B., Kirn, Th., Konak, C., La Vacca, G., Laudi, E., Laurenti, G., Lazzizzera, I., Lee, H. T., Lee, S. C., Leluc, C., Li, H. S., Li, J. Q., Li, Q., Li, T. X., Li, Z. H., Li, Z. Y., Lin, C. H., Lipari, P., Lippert, T., Liu, D., Liu, Z., Lordello, V. D., Lu, S. Q., Lu, Y. S., Luebelsmeyer, K., Luo, F., Luo, J. Z., Lyu, S. S., Machate, F., Mañá, C., Marín, J., Martin, T., Martínez, G., Masi, N., Maurin, D., Menchaca-Rocha, A., Meng, Q., Mikuni, V. M., Mo, D. C., Mott, P., Mussolin, L., Nelson, T., Ni, J. Q., Nikonov, N., Nozzoli, F., Oliva, A., Orcinha, M., Palermo, M., Palmonari, F., Palomares, C., Paniccia, M., Pauluzzi, M., Pensotti, S., Perrina, C., Picot-Clemente, N., Pilo, F., Pohl, M., Poireau, V., Quadrani, L., Qi, X. M., Qu, Z. Y., Räihä, T., Rancoita, P. G., Rapin, D., Ricol, J. S., Rosier-Lees, S., Rozza, D., Sagdeev, R., Schael, S., Schmidt, S. M., Schulz von Dratzig, A., Schwering, G., Seo, E. S., Shan, B. S., Shi, J. Y., Siedenburg, T., Song, J. W., Tacconi, M., Tang, X. W., Tang, Z. C., Tescaro, D., Tian, J., Ting, S. M., Tomassetti, N., Torsti, J., Urban, T., Vagelli, V., Valente, E., Valtonen, E., Vázquez Acosta, M., Vecchi, M., Velasco, M., Vialle, J. P., Wang, L. Q., Wang, N. H., Wang, Q. L., Wang, X. Q., Wang, Z. X., Wei, C. C., Wei, J., Weng, Z. L., Whitman, K., Wu, H., Xiong, R. Q., Xu, W., Yang, M., Yang, Y., Yi, H., Yu, Y. J., Yu, Z. Q., Zannoni, M., Zeissler, S., Zhang, C., Zhang, F., Zhang, J. H., Zhang, S. W., Zheng, Z. M., Zhuang, H. L., Zhukov, V., Zichichi, A., Zimmermann, N., AMS Collaboration, Becker, Ulrich J, Behlmann, Matthew Daniel, Burger, Joseph D, Cai, Xudong, Capell, Michael H, Chen, Andrew I, Choumilov, Evgueni, Choutko, Vitali, Dadzie, K., Egorov, Alexander, Eline, Alexandre, Feng, Jie, Fisher, Peter H, Galaktionov, Y., Heil, Melanie, Hsieh, Timothy Hwa-wei, Jia, Yi, Kounina, Olga, Kounine, Andrei, Koutsenko, Vladimir, Kulemzin, Alexander, Lebedev, Alexei, Liu, Hu, Phan, Huy Duc, Plyaskin, Vasily, Qin, Xiaoting, Rozhkov, Andrey B., Ting, Samuel, Wang, X., Yan, Qi, Zhang, Jing, Zhang, Zhan, Zuccon, Paolo
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117287
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