Abundances of the cosmic ray β-decay secondaries and implications for cosmic ray transport

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Cosmic Rays, Cosmic Ray Nucleosynthesis, Neutrino, Muon, Pion, And Other Elementary Particles, Cosmic Rays

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Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) pass through the interstellar medium (ISM) and undergo nuclear interactions that produce secondary fragments. The abundances of radioactive secondary species can be used to derive a galactic confinement time for cosmic rays using the amount of ISM material traversed by the cosmic rays inferred from stable GCR secondary abundances. Abundance measurements of long-lived species such as 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, and 54Mn allow a comparison of propagation histories for different parent nuclei. Abundances for these species, measured in the energy range ~50-500 MeV/nuc using the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) aboard the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft, indicate a confinement time τesc=16.2+/-0.8 Myr. We have modeled the production and propagation of the radioactive secondaries and discuss the implications for GCR transport. .

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