Large-scale simulations of antihelium production in cosmic-ray interactions
Shukla A, Datta A, Von Doetinchem P, Gomez-Coral DM, Kanitz C (2020)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2020
Journal
Book Volume: 102
Journal Issue: 6
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.063004
Abstract
The possibility of antihelium production in interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas is studied using large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. For this purpose, an energy-dependent coalescence mechanism developed previously is extended to estimate the production of light antinuclei ((3)(He) over bar and (4)(He) over bar). The uncertainty in the coalescence parameter and its effect on the expected antiparticle flux is also investigated. The simulated background antihelium fluxes are found to be lower than the fluxes predicted by simplified models using numerical scaling techniques.
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APA:
Shukla, A., Datta, A., Von Doetinchem, P., Gomez-Coral, D.-M., & Kanitz, C. (2020). Large-scale simulations of antihelium production in cosmic-ray interactions. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 102(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.063004
MLA:
Shukla, Anirvan, et al. "Large-scale simulations of antihelium production in cosmic-ray interactions." Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 102.6 (2020).
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