Cosmic-ray positron energy spectrum measured by PAMELA

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Adriani, O ^a,b   Barbarino, G C ^c,d   Bazilevskaya, G A ^e   Bellotti, R ^f,g   Bianco, A ^h,i   Boezio, M ^h   Bogomolov, E A ^j   Bongi, M ^a,b   Bonvicini, V ^h   Bottai, S ^b   Bruno, A ^f,g   Cafagna, F ^g   Campana, D ^d   Carbone, R ^h   Carlson, P ^k   Casolino, M ^l   Castellini, G ^m   De Donato, C ^l   De Santis, C ^l,n   De Simone, N ^l   Di Felice, V ^l   Formato, V ^h,i   Galper, A M ^o   Karelin, A V ^o   Koldashov, S V ^o   Koldobskiy, S A ^o   Krutkov, S Y ^j   Kvashnin, A N ^e   Leonov, A ^o   Malakhov, V ^o   Marcelli, L ⁿ   Martucci, M ^n,p   Mayorov, A G ^o   Menn, W ^q   Merge M ^l,n   Mikhailov, V V ^o   Mocchiutti, E ^h   Monaco, A ^f,g   Mori, N ^b   Munini, R ^h,i   Osteria, G ^d   Palma, F ^l,n   Papini, P ^b   Pearce, M ^k   Picozza, P ^l,n   Pizzolotto, C ^r,s   Ricci, M ^p   Ricciarini, S B ^b   Rossetto, L ^k   Sarkar, R ^h   Scotti, V ^c,d   Simon, M ^q   Sparvoli, R ^l,n   Spillantini, P ^a,b   Stochaj, S J ^h   Stockton, J C ^h   Stozhkov, Y I ^e   Vacchi, A ^h   Vannuccini, E ^b   Vasilyev, G I ^j   Voronov, S A ^o   Yurkin, Y T ^o   Zampa, G ^h   Zampa, N ^h   Zverev, V G ^o   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^e LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^h SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^j IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^k ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^l INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^m IFAC CNR   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^o NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^p INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^r INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

^s ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED MEASUREMENTS; INTERPRETATION MODEL; POSITRON ENERGY; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE-BORNE EXPERIMENT; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SOLAR MINIMA;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; KINETICS; POSITRONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 84883138774     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.081102     Document Type: Article

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