Sensitivity of the GAPS experiment to low-energy cosmic-ray antiprotons
Abstract
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an upcoming balloon mission to measure low-energy cosmic-ray antinuclei during at least three ~35-day Antarctic flights. With its large geometric acceptance and novel exotic atom-based particle identification, GAPS will detect ~500 cosmic antiprotons per flight and produce a precision cosmic antiproton spectrum in the kinetic energy range of ~0.07–0.21 GeV/n at the top of the atmosphere. With these high statistics extending to lower energies than any previous experiment, and with complementary sources of experimental uncertainty compared to traditional magnetic spectrometers, the GAPS antiproton measurement will be sensitive to dark matter, primordial black holes, and cosmic ray propagation. The antiproton measurement will also validate the GAPS antinucleus identification technique for the antideuteron and antihelium rare-event searches. Finally, this analysis demonstrates the GAPS sensitivity to cosmic-ray antiprotons using a full instrument simulation and event reconstruction, and including solar and atmospheric effects.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trieste (Italy); Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU) (Italy)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trieste (Italy)
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Naples (Italy)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa (Japan)
- Tokai Univ., Hiratsuka, Kanagawa (Japan)
- Research Organization of Information and Systems (Japan)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trieste (Italy); Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU) (Italy); Univ. of Trieste (Italy)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Pavia (Italy); University of Bergamo (Italy)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Rome (Italy); Univ. of Rome (Italy)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Shinshu Univ., Matsumoto, Nagano (Japan)
- Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Sagamihara, Kanagawa (Japan)
- Heliospace Corp, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Naples (Italy); University of Naples (Italy)
- Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Kanagawa (Japan)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Florence (Italy)
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- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Contributing Org.:
- General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1971793
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-23-148-PPD; arXiv:2206.12991
Journal ID: ISSN 0927-6505; oai:inspirehep.net:2102013; TRN: US2313725
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; NNX17AB44G; NNX17AB46G; NNX17AB47G; 80NSSC19K1425; 1122374; 1920304; 2030508
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Astroparticle Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 145; Journal ID: ISSN 0927-6505
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; antiproton; cosmic ray; dark matter; primordial black hole; GAPS; balloon-borne instrumentation
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Rogers, F., Aramaki, T., Boezio, M., Boggs, S. E., Bonvicini, V., Bridges, G., Campana, D., Craig, W. W., von Doetinchem, P., Everson, E., Fabris, L., Feldman, S., Fuke, H., Gahbauer, F., Gerrity, C., Hailey, C. J., Hayashi, T., Kawachi, A., Kozai, M., Lenni, A., Lowell, A., Manghisoni, M., Marcelli, N., Mochizuki, B., Mognet, S. A.I., Munakata, K., Munini, R., Nakagami, Y., Olson, J., Ong, R. A., Osteria, G., Perez, K. M., Quinn, S., Re, V., Riceputi, E., Roach, B., Ryan, J., Saffold, N., Scotti, V., Shimizu, Y., Sparvoli, R., Stoessl, A., Tiberio, A., Vannuccini, E., Wada, T., Xiao, M., Yamatani, M., Yee, K., Yoshida, A., Yoshida, T., Zampa, G., Zeng, J., and Zweerink, J. Sensitivity of the GAPS experiment to low-energy cosmic-ray antiprotons. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102791.
Rogers, F., Aramaki, T., Boezio, M., Boggs, S. E., Bonvicini, V., Bridges, G., Campana, D., Craig, W. W., von Doetinchem, P., Everson, E., Fabris, L., Feldman, S., Fuke, H., Gahbauer, F., Gerrity, C., Hailey, C. J., Hayashi, T., Kawachi, A., Kozai, M., Lenni, A., Lowell, A., Manghisoni, M., Marcelli, N., Mochizuki, B., Mognet, S. A.I., Munakata, K., Munini, R., Nakagami, Y., Olson, J., Ong, R. A., Osteria, G., Perez, K. M., Quinn, S., Re, V., Riceputi, E., Roach, B., Ryan, J., Saffold, N., Scotti, V., Shimizu, Y., Sparvoli, R., Stoessl, A., Tiberio, A., Vannuccini, E., Wada, T., Xiao, M., Yamatani, M., Yee, K., Yoshida, A., Yoshida, T., Zampa, G., Zeng, J., & Zweerink, J. Sensitivity of the GAPS experiment to low-energy cosmic-ray antiprotons. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102791
Rogers, F., Aramaki, T., Boezio, M., Boggs, S. E., Bonvicini, V., Bridges, G., Campana, D., Craig, W. W., von Doetinchem, P., Everson, E., Fabris, L., Feldman, S., Fuke, H., Gahbauer, F., Gerrity, C., Hailey, C. J., Hayashi, T., Kawachi, A., Kozai, M., Lenni, A., Lowell, A., Manghisoni, M., Marcelli, N., Mochizuki, B., Mognet, S. A.I., Munakata, K., Munini, R., Nakagami, Y., Olson, J., Ong, R. A., Osteria, G., Perez, K. M., Quinn, S., Re, V., Riceputi, E., Roach, B., Ryan, J., Saffold, N., Scotti, V., Shimizu, Y., Sparvoli, R., Stoessl, A., Tiberio, A., Vannuccini, E., Wada, T., Xiao, M., Yamatani, M., Yee, K., Yoshida, A., Yoshida, T., Zampa, G., Zeng, J., and Zweerink, J. Sat .
"Sensitivity of the GAPS experiment to low-energy cosmic-ray antiprotons". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102791. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1971793.
@article{osti_1971793,
title = {Sensitivity of the GAPS experiment to low-energy cosmic-ray antiprotons},
author = {Rogers, F. and Aramaki, T. and Boezio, M. and Boggs, S. E. and Bonvicini, V. and Bridges, G. and Campana, D. and Craig, W. W. and von Doetinchem, P. and Everson, E. and Fabris, L. and Feldman, S. and Fuke, H. and Gahbauer, F. and Gerrity, C. and Hailey, C. J. and Hayashi, T. and Kawachi, A. and Kozai, M. and Lenni, A. and Lowell, A. and Manghisoni, M. and Marcelli, N. and Mochizuki, B. and Mognet, S. A.I. and Munakata, K. and Munini, R. and Nakagami, Y. and Olson, J. and Ong, R. A. and Osteria, G. and Perez, K. M. and Quinn, S. and Re, V. and Riceputi, E. and Roach, B. and Ryan, J. and Saffold, N. and Scotti, V. and Shimizu, Y. and Sparvoli, R. and Stoessl, A. and Tiberio, A. and Vannuccini, E. and Wada, T. and Xiao, M. and Yamatani, M. and Yee, K. and Yoshida, A. and Yoshida, T. and Zampa, G. and Zeng, J. and Zweerink, J.},
abstractNote = {The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an upcoming balloon mission to measure low-energy cosmic-ray antinuclei during at least three ~35-day Antarctic flights. With its large geometric acceptance and novel exotic atom-based particle identification, GAPS will detect ~500 cosmic antiprotons per flight and produce a precision cosmic antiproton spectrum in the kinetic energy range of ~0.07–0.21 GeV/n at the top of the atmosphere. With these high statistics extending to lower energies than any previous experiment, and with complementary sources of experimental uncertainty compared to traditional magnetic spectrometers, the GAPS antiproton measurement will be sensitive to dark matter, primordial black holes, and cosmic ray propagation. The antiproton measurement will also validate the GAPS antinucleus identification technique for the antideuteron and antihelium rare-event searches. Finally, this analysis demonstrates the GAPS sensitivity to cosmic-ray antiprotons using a full instrument simulation and event reconstruction, and including solar and atmospheric effects.},
doi = {10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102791},
journal = {Astroparticle Physics},
number = ,
volume = 145,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Sat Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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