Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-27
Proc. 27th ICRC (Hamburg), 2001, pp.1868-1871
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 7 ps-figures, to appear in the Proc. of 27th Int. Cosmic Ray Conf. (Hamburg, 2001), OG 1.3. More details can be found
Scientific paper
High energy collisions of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei with interstellar gas are believed to be the mechanism producing the majority of CR antiprotons. The distinguishing spectral shape with a maximum at 2 GeV and a sharp decrease towards lower energies makes antiprotons a unique probe of the models of particle propagation in the Galaxy and modulation in the heliosphere. Besides, accurate calculation of the secondary antiproton flux provides a ``background'' for searches for exotic signals from the annihilation of supersymmetric particles and primordial black hole evaporation. Recently new data with large statistics on the antiproton flux have become available which allow for such tests to be performed. We use our 3D Galactic cosmic ray propagation code GALPROP to calculate interstellar propagation in several models. For our best model we make predictions of proton and antiproton fluxes near the Earth for different modulation levels and polarity using a steady-state drift model for heliospheric modulation.
Langner U. W.
Moskalenko Igor V.
Ormes Johnathan F.
Potgieter Marius S.
Strong Andrew W.
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