Title
Possible structure in the cosmic ray electron spectrum measured by the ATIC-2 and ATIC-4 experiments
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-27-2011
Abstract
A strong excess in a form of a wide peak in the energy range of 300-800 GeV was discovered in the first measurements of the electron spectrum in the energy range from 20 GeV to 3 TeV by the balloon-borne experiment ATIC (Chang et al., 2008b). The experimental data processing and analysis of the electron spectrum with different criteria for selection of electrons, completely independent of the results reported in Chang et al. (2008b) is employed in the present paper. The new independent analysis generally confirms the results of Chang et al. (2008b), but shows that the spectrum in the region of the excess is represented by a number of narrow peaks. The measured spectrum is compared to the spectrum of Chang et al. (2008b) and to the spectrum of the Fermi/LAT experiment. © 2011 Author(s).
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions
First Page
119
Last Page
124
Recommended Citation
Panov, A., Zatsepin, V., Sokolskaya, N., Adams, J., Ahn, H., Bashindzhagyan, G., Chang, J., Christl, M., Guzik, T., Isbert, J., Kim, K., Kouznetsov, E., Panasyuk, M., Postnikov, E., Seo, E., Watts, J., Wefel, J., & Wu, J. (2011). Possible structure in the cosmic ray electron spectrum measured by the ATIC-2 and ATIC-4 experiments. Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions, 7 (2), 119-124. https://doi.org/10.5194/astra-7-119-2011