Hamburg 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 20: Kosmische Strahlung I

T 20.1: Vortrag

Montag, 29. Februar 2016, 11:00–11:15, VMP9 SR 29

Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectra during Solar Cycle 23 and 24 - Measurement Capabilities of the Electron Proton Helium Telescope on Board SOHO — •Patrick Kühl, Nina Dresing, Jan Gieseler, Bernd Heber, and Andreas Klassen — Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel

The solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) can be studied in detail by long term variations of the GCR energy spectrum (e.g. on the scales of a solar cycle). With almost 20 years of data, the Electron Proton Helium INstrument (EPHIN) aboard SOHO is well suited for these kind of investigations. Although the design of the instrument is optimized to measure proton and helium isotope spectra up to 50 MeV/nucleon the capability exist that allow to determine energy spectra above 1.5 GeV/nucleon. Therefore we developed a sophisticated inversion method to calculate such proton spectra. The method relies on a GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation of the instrument and a simplified spacecraft model that calculates the energy response function of EPHIN for electrons, protons and heavier ions. As a result we present galactic cosmic ray spectra from 1995 to 2015. For validation, the derived spectra are compared to AMS, BESS and PAMELA data. Furthermore we discuss the spectra with respect to the solar modulation.