Search for heavy antinuclei in the cosmic radiation

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Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icrc....2..330l&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., Vol. 2 p 330-333 (SEE N85-34006 22-93)

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Antiparticles, Cosmic Rays, Nuclear Interactions, Nuclei (Nuclear Physics), Cerenkov Counters, Cosmology, Heao 3, Nuclear Physics, Radiation Spectra, Time Of Flight Spectrometers, Velocity

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The existence of significant amounts of antimatter in the Universe is demonstrated through cosmic radiation. The data from the Danish-French Cosmic Ray Spectrometer on the HEAO-3 satellite offers an opportunity to search for heavy antinuclei, since all the relevant parameters (charge, velocity, arrival direction, and satellite position at the time of arrival) are measured for each recorded nucleus. Using the 22676 positive only events in the data seletion corresponding to L 1.5 as a measure of our exposure factor to heavy antinuclei and noting that no corresponding antinuclei were found, an upper limit (95% confidence) is given to the ratio of antinuclei to nuclei as 1.4 x .0001 for particles with Z 9. The upper limit resulting from this work is compared with previous results of searches for heavy antimatter in the cosmic radiation. It is seen that, if one regards only antiparticles heavier than fluorine, then the present result represents a reduced upper limit over previous data. When taken together, all the available experiment data now push the upper limit for the ratio of antiparticles to particles well below .0001.

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