Search for Cosmic-Ray Antideuterons with BESS-Polar II

K. Sakai, K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, M. Hasegawa, K. C. Kim, M. H. Lee, Y. Makida, J. W. Mitchell, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Orito, J. F. Ormes, N. Picot-Clemente, M. Sasaki, E. S. Seo, R. E. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, K. TanakaN. Thakur, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura

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Abstract

High-precision measurements of the cosmic-ray antiproton spectrum and sensitive search for cosmological antihelium have been published using the data from BESS-Polar II (Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer) flight in 2007/2008 for a core study of the early Universe using elementary particle measurements. The most sensitive antideuteron search reported used the data obtained by BESS97, BESS98, BESS99, and BESS00, which include the solar minimum period in 1997. We performed a search for antideuterons with unprecedented sensitivity using BESS-Polar II data that is more than ten times the statistics of BESS97 in near solar minimum conditions. The search for antideuteron probes possible exotic sources, such as dark-matter candidates.

Original languageEnglish
Article number134
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume358
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2 2021
Event36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019 - Madison, United States
Duration: Jul 24 2019Aug 1 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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