1. Lithium and Beryllium Isotopes with the PAMELA Experiment
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Andrea Vacchi, Sergey Koldobskiy, Yu. T. Yurkin, L. Marcelli, V. V. Malakhov, V. Di Felice, V. V. Mikhailov, F. Palma, O. Adriani, Roberta Sparvoli, N. Zampa, Paolo Papini, Per Carlson, A. N. Kvashnin, Mark Pearce, D. Campana, F. Cafagna, S. Bottai, G. Vasilyev, M. Ricci, S. Y. Krutkov, N. De Simone, P. Picozza, Alfonso Monaco, Sergey Koldashov, Massimo Bongi, G. Castellini, Mirko Boezio, Yuri Stozhkov, S. A. Voronov, V. Bonvicini, E. Mocchiutti, Alexey Leonov, A. V. Karelin, P. Spillantini, Ritabrata Sarkar, V. Scotti, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Roberto Bellotti, R. Munini, E. Vannuccini, A. M. Galper, E. A. Bogomolov, Valerio Formato, S. B. Ricciarini, Michal Simon, Marco Casolino, M. Merge, Giancarlo Barbarino, A. Bruno, C. De Santis, B. Panico, Gianluigi Zampa, M. Martucci, C. De Donato, G. Osteria, W. Menn, A. G. Mayorov, Nicola Mori, Menn, W., Bogomolov, E. A., Simon, M., Vasilyev, G., Adriani, O., Barbarino, G. C., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., De Donato, C., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., Formato, V., Galper, A. M., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A., Malakhov, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Palma, F., Panico, B., Papini, P., Pearce, M., Picozza, P., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., Sarkar, R., Scotti, V., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., and Zampa, N.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,FOS: Physical sciences ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Cosmic ray ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,cosmic rays ,0103 physical sciences ,astroparticle physics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Settore FIS/01 ,Astroparticle physics ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Isotopic composition ,chemistry ,Space and Planetary Science ,Lithium ,Beryllium ,Orbit (control theory) ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Isotopes of beryllium - Abstract
The cosmic-ray lithium and beryllium ($^{6}$Li, $^{7}$Li, $^{7}$Be, $^{9}$Be, $^{10}$Be) isotopic composition has been measured with the satellite-borne experiment PAMELA, which was launched into low-Earth orbit on-board the Resurs-DK1 satellite on June 15th 2006. The rare lithium and beryllium isotopes in cosmic rays are believed to originate mainly from the interaction of high energy carbon, nitrogen and oxygen nuclei with the interstellar medium (ISM), but also on "tertiary" interactions in the ISM (i.e. produced by further fragmentation of secondary beryllium and boron). In this paper the isotopic ratios $^{7}$Li/$^{6}$Li and $^{7}$Be/($^{9}$Be + $^{10}$Be) measured between 150 and 1100 MeV/n using two different detector systems from July 2006 to September 2014 will be presented., 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.06535
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- 2018
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