@article{28ced0a96032406fbcf380d635645d13,
title = "Properties of Cosmic Deuterons Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer",
abstract = "Precision measurements by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station of the deuteron (D) flux are presented. The measurements are based on 21×106 D nuclei in the rigidity range from 1.9 to 21 GV collected from May 2011 to April 2021. We observe that over the entire rigidity range the D flux exhibits nearly identical time variations with the p, He3, and He4 fluxes. Above 4.5 GV, the D/He4 flux ratio is time independent and its rigidity dependence is well described by a single power law ∝RΔ with ΔD/He4=-0.108±0.005. This is in contrast with the He3/He4 flux ratio for which we find ΔHe3/He4=-0.289±0.003. Above ∼13 GV we find a nearly identical rigidity dependence of the D and p fluxes with a D/p flux ratio of 0.027±0.001. These unexpected observations indicate that cosmic deuterons have a sizable primarylike component. With a method independent of cosmic ray propagation, we obtain the primary component of the D flux equal to 9.4±0.5% of the He4 flux and the secondary component of the D flux equal to 58±5% of the He3 flux.",
author = "{AMS Collaboration} and M. Aguilar and B. Alpat and G. Ambrosi and H. Anderson and L. Arruda and N. Attig and C. Bagwell and F. Barao and M. Barbanera and L. Barrin and A. Bartoloni and R. Battiston and A. Bayyari and N. Belyaev and B. Bertucci and V. Bindi and K. Bollweg and J. Bolster and M. Borchiellini and B. Borgia and Boschini, {M. J.} and M. Bourquin and C. Brugnoni and J. Burger and Burger, {W. J.} and Cai, {X. D.} and M. Capell and J. Casaus and G. Castellini and F. Cervelli and Chang, {Y. H.} and Chen, {G. M.} and Chen, {G. R.} and H. Chen and Chen, {H. S.} and Y. Chen and L. Cheng and Chou, {H. Y.} and S. Chouridou and V. Choutko and Chung, {C. H.} and C. Clark and G. Coignet and C. Consolandi and A. Contin and C. Corti and Z. Cui and K. Dadzie and F. D'Angelo and A. Dass and Liqiu Wang",
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year = "2024",
month = jun,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.261001",
language = "English",
volume = "132",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "26",
}