The Possibility of Detecting TeV Electrons and Positrons of Galactic Cosmic Rays Using the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Abstract

The research of the electron and positron spectrum of galactic cosmic rays is an important task of high-energy astrophysics. The necessity of using new methods of electron and positron registration is caused by insufficient statistical reliability of data from modern experiments in the TeV energy range. In the present work, one of the possible registration methods based on the use of synchrotron radiation of electrons and positrons in the Earth’s magnetic field is investigated. Using modeling of trajectories of high-energy electrons, positrons, and synchrotrons photons emitted by them, the detector count rate for the ISS and ROS orbits has been estimated. The possibility of separation of electrons and positrons using this method is shown.