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Title: Cosmic-ray propagation with DRAGON2: II. Nuclear interactions with the interstellar gas

Abstract

Understanding the isotopic composition of cosmic rays (CRs) observed near Earth represents a milestone towards the identification of their origin. Local fluxes contain all the known stable and long-lived isotopes, reflecting the complex history of primaries and secondaries as they traverse the interstellar medium. For that reason, a numerical code which aims at describing the CR transport in the Galaxy must unavoidably rely on accurate modelling of the production of secondary particles. Here, we provide a detailed description of the nuclear cross sections and decay network as implemented in the forthcoming release of the galactic propagation code DRAGON2. We present the secondary production models implemented in the code and we apply the different prescriptions to compute quantities of interest to interpret local CR fluxes (e.g., nuclear fragmentation timescales, secondary and tertiary source terms). In particular, we develop a nuclear secondary production model aimed at accurately computing the light secondary fluxes (namely: Li, Be, B) above 1 GeV/n. This result is achieved by fitting existing empirical or semi-empirical formalisms to a large sample of measurements in the energy range 100 MeV/n to 100 GeV/n and by considering the contribution of the most relevant decaying isotopes up to iron. Concerning secondary antiparticlesmore » (positrons and antiprotons), we describe a collection of models taken from the literature, and provide a detailed quantitative comparison.« less

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ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6]
  1. Gran Sasso Science Inst. and National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Gran Sasso National Lab. (INFN-LNGS)
  2. Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Inst. of Physics and Gravitation & Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA)
  3. Technical Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany). Dept. of Physics; RWTH Aachen Univ. (Germany). Inst. for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology (TTK)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab. and Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States). W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Lab., Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Dept. of Physics
  5. National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Pisa (Italy)
  6. National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Bari (Italy)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; European Commission (EC); German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
OSTI Identifier:
1461832
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; 751311; 81303
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 07; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; galactic cosmic rays; cross sections; numerical methods

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Evoli, Carmelo, Gaggero, Daniele, Vittino, Andrea, Di Mauro, Mattia, Grasso, Dario, and Mazziotta, Mario Nicola. Cosmic-ray propagation with DRAGON2: II. Nuclear interactions with the interstellar gas. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/006.
Evoli, Carmelo, Gaggero, Daniele, Vittino, Andrea, Di Mauro, Mattia, Grasso, Dario, & Mazziotta, Mario Nicola. Cosmic-ray propagation with DRAGON2: II. Nuclear interactions with the interstellar gas. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/006
Evoli, Carmelo, Gaggero, Daniele, Vittino, Andrea, Di Mauro, Mattia, Grasso, Dario, and Mazziotta, Mario Nicola. Mon . "Cosmic-ray propagation with DRAGON2: II. Nuclear interactions with the interstellar gas". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461832.
@article{osti_1461832,
title = {Cosmic-ray propagation with DRAGON2: II. Nuclear interactions with the interstellar gas},
author = {Evoli, Carmelo and Gaggero, Daniele and Vittino, Andrea and Di Mauro, Mattia and Grasso, Dario and Mazziotta, Mario Nicola},
abstractNote = {Understanding the isotopic composition of cosmic rays (CRs) observed near Earth represents a milestone towards the identification of their origin. Local fluxes contain all the known stable and long-lived isotopes, reflecting the complex history of primaries and secondaries as they traverse the interstellar medium. For that reason, a numerical code which aims at describing the CR transport in the Galaxy must unavoidably rely on accurate modelling of the production of secondary particles. Here, we provide a detailed description of the nuclear cross sections and decay network as implemented in the forthcoming release of the galactic propagation code DRAGON2. We present the secondary production models implemented in the code and we apply the different prescriptions to compute quantities of interest to interpret local CR fluxes (e.g., nuclear fragmentation timescales, secondary and tertiary source terms). In particular, we develop a nuclear secondary production model aimed at accurately computing the light secondary fluxes (namely: Li, Be, B) above 1 GeV/n. This result is achieved by fitting existing empirical or semi-empirical formalisms to a large sample of measurements in the energy range 100 MeV/n to 100 GeV/n and by considering the contribution of the most relevant decaying isotopes up to iron. Concerning secondary antiparticles (positrons and antiprotons), we describe a collection of models taken from the literature, and provide a detailed quantitative comparison.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/006},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
number = 07,
volume = 2018,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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