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  • Titel: Production and Acceleration of Antinuclei in Supernova Shockwaves
  • Beteiligte: Tomassetti, Nicola; Oliva, Alberto
  • Erschienen: American Astronomical Society, 2017
  • Erschienen in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa80da
  • ISSN: 2041-8205; 2041-8213
  • Schlagwörter: Space and Planetary Science ; Astronomy and Astrophysics
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We compute the energy spectra of antideuterons (<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\overline{{\rm{d}}}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn1.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula>) and antihelium (<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\overline{\mathrm{He}}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn2.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula>) in cosmic rays (CRs) in a scenario where hadronic interactions inside supernova remnants (SNRs) can produce a diffusively shock-accelerated “source component” of secondary antinuclei. The key parameters that specify the SNR environment and the interstellar CR transport are tightly constrained with the new measurements provided by the <jats:sans-serif>AMS </jats:sans-serif>experiment on the B/C ratio and on the <jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\bar{p}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn3.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula>/<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $p$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn4.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula> ratio. The best-fit models obtained from the two ratios are found to be inconsistent with each other, as the <jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\bar{p}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn5.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula>/<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $p$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn6.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula> data require enhanced secondary production. Thus, we derive conservative (i.e., B/C-driven) and speculative (<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\bar{p}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn7.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula>/<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $p$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn8.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula>-driven) upper limits to the SNR flux contributions for the <jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\overline{{\rm{d}}}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn9.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula> and <jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\overline{\mathrm{He}}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn10.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula> spectra in CRs, along with their standard secondary component expected from CR collisions in the interstellar gas. We find that the source component of antinuclei can be appreciable at kinetic energies above a few ∼10 GeV n<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>, but it is always sub-dominant below a few GeV n<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>, that is the energy window where dark matter (DM) annihilation signatures are expected to exceed the level of secondary production. We also find that the <jats:italic>total</jats:italic> (standard + SNR) flux of secondary <jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\overline{{\rm{d}}}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn11.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula> and <jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math> <?CDATA $\overline{\mathrm{He}}$?> </jats:tex-math> <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="apjlaa80daieqn12.gif" xlink:type="simple" /> </jats:inline-formula> is tightly constrained by the data. Thus, the presence of interaction processes in SNRs does not critically affect the total background for DM searches.</jats:p>
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