Cosmic ray electron spectrum due to the dispersion ofinjection spectrum

  • The cosmic-ray total electron spectrum (electrons plus positrons) has been measured precisely up to TeV energies, with more interesting features found. Exhaustive analyses of the electron spectrum strongly support a spectral hardening above 100 GeV, rather than a featureless single power-law, which is confirmed by the most recent observations. Meanwhile, the measurements of the DAMPE satellite have verified the presence of a knee-like structure around 1 TeV in the electron spectrum, resembling the cosmic-ray knee. In this paper, we establish a physical model in which the observed electron spectrum is composed of a superposition of CR sources with various spectral indices and high-energy cutoffs. The dispersion of the power index is assumed to be Gaussian, while the cutoff energy Ec follows a power-law distribution. These simple ideas can account naturally for both the hundred-GeV excess and the TeV spectral break.
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Tian-Lu Chen, Wei Liu, Qi Gao, Mao-Yuan Liu, Hai-Jin Li, Danzengluobu and Ying Shi. Cosmic ray electron spectrum due to the dispersion ofinjection spectrum[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2018, 42(7): 075001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/42/7/075001
Tian-Lu Chen, Wei Liu, Qi Gao, Mao-Yuan Liu, Hai-Jin Li, Danzengluobu and Ying Shi. Cosmic ray electron spectrum due to the dispersion ofinjection spectrum[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2018, 42(7): 075001.  doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/42/7/075001 shu
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Cosmic ray electron spectrum due to the dispersion ofinjection spectrum

  • 1. School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
  • 2. Physics Department of the Science School, Tibet University, Lhasa 850000, China
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Cosmic Rays(Tibet University), Ministry of Education, Lhasa 850000, China
  • 4.  Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 5. Physics Department of the Science School, Tibet University, Lhasa 850000, China
  • 6. Key Laboratory of Cosmic Rays(Tibet University), Ministry of Education, Lhasa 850000, China
  • 7.  School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Fund Project:  Supported by National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (11663006, 11747316, 11135010, 11405182) and the Research Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (213036A)

Abstract: The cosmic-ray total electron spectrum (electrons plus positrons) has been measured precisely up to TeV energies, with more interesting features found. Exhaustive analyses of the electron spectrum strongly support a spectral hardening above 100 GeV, rather than a featureless single power-law, which is confirmed by the most recent observations. Meanwhile, the measurements of the DAMPE satellite have verified the presence of a knee-like structure around 1 TeV in the electron spectrum, resembling the cosmic-ray knee. In this paper, we establish a physical model in which the observed electron spectrum is composed of a superposition of CR sources with various spectral indices and high-energy cutoffs. The dispersion of the power index is assumed to be Gaussian, while the cutoff energy Ec follows a power-law distribution. These simple ideas can account naturally for both the hundred-GeV excess and the TeV spectral break.

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