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Galactic Streams of Cosmic-ray Electrons and Positrons by Kistler, Matthew D. ( Author )
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Australian National University
01-08-2023
Isotropic diffusion is a key assumption in many models of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. We find that simulation results imply a critical energy of ~10-1000~GeV above which electrons and positrons can spend their entire lives in streams threading magnetic fields, due to energy losses. This would restrict the number of electron/positron sources contributing at Earth, likely leading to smooth electron/positron spectra, as is observed. For positrons, this could be as few as one, with an enhanced flux that would ease energetics concerns of a pulsar origin of the positron excess, or even zero, bringing dark matter to the fore. We conclude that ideas about electron/positron propagation must be revised and discuss implications for recent AMS-02 data.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8180
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