Antihelium-3 fluxes near Earth using data-driven estimates for annihilation cross section

ALICE Collaboration

Antihelium-3 fluxes near Earth using data-driven estimates for annihilation cross section

ALICE Collaboration

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Abstract

Antinuclei found in cosmic rays could provide a smoking gun signal for dark matter as this signal is virtually background free. The study of ³He cosmic rays requires the knowledge of their production, propagation in the galaxy and annihilation cross-section. While the former two have been already estimated with data-driven methods, there were no experimental data available for the ³He inelastic cross section. We measured for the first time the inelastic cross section of ³He using the ALICE detector itself as a target. To study the effect of ³He annihilation in the galaxy and estimate the transparency of the galaxy, the ³He source functions and annihilation cross sections were implemented in GALPROP.

Original language	English
Article number	516
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	395
State	Published - 2022.03.18
Event	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 - Virtual, Berlin, Germany Duration: 2021.07.12 → 2021.07.23

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AU - Ahammed, Z.

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Antihelium-3 fluxes near Earth using data-driven estimates for annihilation cross section

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