THE POSSIBILITY OF DETECTING TeV ELECTRONS ANDPOSITRONS OF GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS USING THE EARTH’SMAGNETIC FIELD

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Abstract

The research of the electron and positron spectrum of galactic cosmic rays is an important task of high-energy astrophysics. The necessity of using new methods of electron and positron registration is caused byinsufficient statistical reliability of data from modern experiments in the TeV energy range. In the presentwork, one of the possible registration methods based on the use of synchrotron radiation of electronsand positrons in the Earth’s magnetic field is investigated. Using modeling of trajectories of high-energyelectrons, positrons, and synchrotron photons emitted by them, the detector count rate for the ISS and ROS orbit has been estimated. The possibility of separation of electrons and positrons using this method isshown.

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A. P. Stuzhin

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Email: starwarriors2@mail.ru
Moscow, Russia

V. V. Mikhailov

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Moscow, Russia

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