Explaining cosmic ray antimatter with secondaries from old supernova remnants

Despite significant efforts over the past decade, the origin of the cosmic ray positron excess has still not been unambiguously established. A popular class of candidate sources are pulsars or pulsar wind nebulae but these cannot also account for the observed hard spectrum of cosmic ray antiprotons....

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Main Authors: Mertsch, P, Vittino, A, Sarkar, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021