Hadronic cross section measurements with the DAMPE space mission using 20GeV-10TeV cosmic-ray protons and $^4$He

arXiv - PHYS - High Energy Physics - Experiment Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI:arxiv-2408.17224

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello, F. C. T. Barbato, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi, I. Cagnoli, M. S. Cai, E. Casilli, E. Catanzani, J. Chang, D. Y. Chen, J. L. Chen, Z. F. Chen, P. Coppin, M. Y. Cui, T. S. Cui, Y. X. Cui, H. T. Dai, A. De Benedittis, I. De Mitri, F. de Palma, A. Di Giovanni, Q. Ding, T. K. Dong, Z. X. Dong, G. Donvito, D. Droz, J. L. Duan, K. K. Duan, R. R. Fan, Y. Z. Fan, F. Fang, K. Fang, C. Q. Feng, L. Feng, J. M. Frieden, P. Fusco, M. Gao, F. Gargano, K. Gong, Y. Z. Gong, D. Y. Guo, J. H. Guo, S. X. Han, Y. M. Hu, G. S. Huang, X. Y. Huang, Y. Y. Huang, M. Ionica, L. Y. Jiang, Y. Z. Jiang, W. Jiang, J. Kong, A. Kotenko, D. Kyratzis, S. J. Lei, W. H. Li, W. L. Li, X. Li, X. Q. Li, Y. M. Liang, C. M. Liu, H. Liu, J. Liu, S. B. Liu, Y. Liu, F. Loparco, C. N. Luo, M. Ma, P. X. Ma, T. Ma, X. Y. Ma, G. Marsella, M. N. Mazziotta, D. Mo, X. Y. Niu, X. Pan, A. Parenti, W. X. Peng, X. Y. Peng, C. Perrina, E. Putti-Garcia, R. Qiao, J. N. Rao, A. Ruina, R. Sarkar, P. Savina, A. Serpolla, Z. Shangguan, W. H. Shen, Z. Q. Shen, Z. T. Shen, L. Silveri, J. X. Song, M. Stolpovskiy, H. Su, M. Su, H. R. Sun, Z. Y. Sun, A. Surdo, X. J. Teng, A. Tykhonov, J. Z. Wang, L. G. Wang, S. Wang, S. X. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. F. Wang, Y. Z. Wang, Z. M. Wang, D. M. Wei, J. J. Wei, Y. F. Wei, D. Wu, J. Wu, S. S. Wu, X. Wu, Z. Q. Xia, H. T. Xu, J. Xu, Z. H. Xu, Z. L. Xu, E. H. Xu, Z. Z. Xu, G. F. Xue, H. B. Yang, P. Yang, Y. Q. Yang, H. J. Yao, Y. H. Yu, G. W. Yuan, Q. Yuan, C. Yue, J. J. Zang, S. X. Zhang, W. Z. Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Y. J. Zhang, Y. L. Zhang, Y. P. Zhang, Y. Q. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, H. Y. Zhao, X. F. Zhao, C. Y. Zhou, Y. Zhu

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Abstract

Precise direct cosmic-ray (CR) measurements provide an important probe to study the energetic particle sources in our Galaxy, and the interstellar environment through which these particles propagate. Uncertainties on hadronic models, ion-nucleon cross sections in particular, are currently the limiting factor towards obtaining more accurate CR ion flux measurements with calorimetric space-based experiments. We present an energy-dependent measurement of the inelastic cross section of protons and helium-4 nuclei (alpha particles) on a Bi$_4$Ge$_3$O$_{12}$ target, using 88 months of data collected by the DAMPE space mission. The kinetic energy range per nucleon of the measurement points ranges from 18 GeV to 9 TeV for protons, and from 5 GeV/n to 3 TeV/n for helium-4 nuclei. Our results lead to a significant improvement of the CR flux normalisation. In the case of helium-4, these results correspond to the first cross section measurements on a heavy target material at energies above 10 GeV/n.

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利用 20GeV-10TeV 宇宙射线质子和 $^4$He 的 DAMPE 空间飞行任务测量强子截面

精确的宇宙射线（CR）直接测量为研究银河系中的高能粒子源以及这些粒子传播的星际环境提供了一个重要的探针。强子模型，特别是离子-核子截面的不确定性，是目前利用空间比量实验获得更精确的宇宙射线离子通量测量的限制因素。我们利用 DAMPE 空间任务收集的 88 个月数据，介绍了对 Bi$_4$Ge$_3$O$_{12}$ 靶上质子和氦-4 核（α 粒子）非弹性截面的随能量变化的测量。测量点每个核子的动能范围为：质子从 18 GeV 到 9 TeV，氦-4 核子从 5 GeV/n 到 3 TeV/n。我们的结果大大改进了 CR 通量的归一化。就氦-4 核而言，这些结果相当于首次在能量高于 10 GeV/n 的重目标材料上进行的截面测量。

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