A New Limit on the Flux of Cosmic Antihelium
arXiv:astro-ph/9710228 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00131-2
Abstract
A very sensitive search for cosmic-ray antihelium was performed using data obtained from three scientific flights of BESS magnetic rigidity spectrometer. We have not observed any antihelium; this places a model-independent upper limit (95 % C.L.) on the antihelium flux of 6*10**(-4) m**(-2)sr**(-1)s**(-1) at the top of the atmosphere in the rigidity region 1 to 16 GV, after correcting for the estimated interaction loss of antihelium in the air and in the instrument. The corresponding upper limit on the Hebar/He flux ratio is 3.1*10**(-6), 30 times more stringent than the limits obtained in similar rigidity regions with magnetic spectrometers previous to BESS.
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