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The hardening and softening features in the DAMPE proton spectrum are very likely to be originated from a nearby supernova remnant (SNR). The proton spectrum from the nearby SNR is required to be very hard below $approx10$ TeV. To reproduce this feature, we illustrate that anomalously slow-diffusion zone for cosmic rays (CRs) must be existed in the local interstellar medium (ISM) after also taking the dipole anisotropy of CRs into account. Assuming that the diffusion coefficient is homogeneous in the nearby ISM, we show that the diffusion coefficient is constrained to the magnitude of $10^{26}$ cm$^2$ s$^{-1}$ when normalized to 1 GeV, which is about 100 times smaller than the average value in the Galaxy. We further discuss the spatial distribution of the slow diffusion and find two distinct possibilities. In one case, the SNR is several hundred of parsecs away from the solar system, meanwhile both the SNR and the solar system are required to be included in a large slow-diffusion zone. The homogeneous diffusion belongs to this case. In the other case, the SNR is very close with a distance of $sim50$ pc and the slow-diffusion zone is only limited around the SNR. The required diffusion coefficient is further smaller in the latter case. This work provides a new way of studying the CR diffusion in the local ISM.
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The precise measurement of the spectrum of protons, the most abundant component of the cosmic radiation, is necessary to understand the source and acceleration of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. This work reports the measurement of the cosmic ray proton fluxes with kinetic energies from 40 GeV to 100 TeV, with two and a half years of data recorded by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE). This is the first time an experiment directly measures the cosmic ray protons up to ~100 TeV with a high statistics. The measured spectrum confirms the spectral hardening found by previous experiments and reveals a softening at ~13.6 TeV, with the spectral index changing from ~2.60 to ~2.85. Our result suggests the existence of a new spectral feature of cosmic rays at energies lower than the so-called knee, and sheds new light on the origin of Galactic cosmic rays.
The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), a high energy cosmic ray and $gamma$-ray detector in space, has recently reported the new measurement of the total electron plus positron flux between 25 GeV and 4.6 TeV. A spectral softening at $sim0.9$ TeV and a tentative peak at $sim1.4$ TeV have been reported. We study the physical implications of the DAMPE data in this work. The presence of the spectral break significantly tightens the constraints on the model parameters to explain the electron/positron excesses. The spectral softening can either be explained by the maximum acceleration limits of electrons by astrophysical sources, or a breakdown of the common assumption of continuous distribution of electron sources at TeV energies in space and time. The tentive peak at $sim1.4$ TeV implies local sources of electrons/positrons with quasi-monochromatic injection spectrum. We find that the cold, ultra-relativistic $e^+e^-$ winds from pulsars may give rise to such a structure. The pulsar is requird to be middle-aged, relatively slowly-rotated, mildly magnetized, and isolated in a density cavity. The annihilation of DM particles ($m_{chi}sim1.5$ TeV) into $e^+e^-$ pairs in a nearby clump or an over-density region may also explain the data. In the DM scenario, the inferred clump mass (or density enhancement) is about $10^7-10^8$ M$_odot$ (or $17-35$ times of the canonical local density) assuming a thermal production cross section, which is relatively extreme compared with the expectation from numerical simulations. A moderate enhancement of the annihilation cross section via, e.g., the Sommerfeld mechanism or non-thermal production, is thus needed.
Quasi-linear diffusion (QLD), driven by the cyclotron instability, is proposed as a mechanism for the possible generation of synchrotron emission in the nearby zone of SgrA$^*$. For physically reasonable parameters, the QLD, by causing non-zero pitch angle scattering lets electrons with the relativistic factors of the order of $10^8$ emit synchrotron radiation in the hard $X$-ray spectral band $sim120$ keV.
The measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic ray helium nuclei from 70 GeV to 80 TeV using 4.5 years of data recorded by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is reported in this work. A hardening of the spectrum is observed at an energy of about 1.3 TeV, similar to previous observations. In addition, a spectral softening at about 34 TeV is revealed for the first time with large statistics and well controlled systematic uncertainties, with an overall significance of $4.3sigma$. The DAMPE spectral measurements of both cosmic protons and helium nuclei suggest a particle charge dependent softening energy, although with current uncertainties a dependence on the number of nucleons cannot be ruled out.
Many studies have shown that either the nearby astrophysical source or dark matter (DM) annihilation/decay is required to explain the origin of high energy cosmic ray (CR) $e^pm$, which are measured by many experiments, such as PAMELA and AMS-02. Recently, the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) collaboration has reported its first result of the total CR $e^pm$ spectrum from $25 ,mathrm{GeV}$ to $4.6 ,mathrm{TeV}$ with high precision. In this work, we study the DM annihilation and pulsar interpretations of the DAMPE high energy $e^pm$ spectrum. In the DM scenario, the leptonic annihilation channels to $tau^+tau^-$, $4mu$, $4tau$, and mixed charged lepton final states can well fit the DAMPE result, while the $mu^+mu^-$ channel has been excluded. In addition, we find that the mixed charged leptons channel would lead to a sharp drop at $sim$ $mathrm{TeV}$. However, these DM explanations are almost excluded by the observations of gamma-ray and CMB, unless some complicated DM models are introduced. In the pulsar scenario, we analyze 21 nearby known pulsars and assume that one of them is the primary source of high energy CR $e^pm$.Considering the constraint from the Fermi-LAT observation of the $e^pm$ anisotropy, we find that two pulsars are possible to explain the DAMPE data. Our results show that it is difficult to distinguish between the DM annihilation and single pulsar explanations of high energy $e^pm$ with the current DAMPE result.
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