Measurements of cosmic-ray low-energy antiproton and proton spectra in a transient period of solar field reversal

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Feb 4;88(5):051101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.051101. Epub 2002 Jan 16.

Abstract

The energy spectra of cosmic-ray low-energy antiprotons ( *p's) and protons ( p's) have been measured by BESS in 1999 and 2000, during a period covering reversal at the solar magnetic field. Based on these measurements, a sudden increase of the *p/p flux ratio following the solar magnetic field reversal was observed, and it generally agrees with a drift model of the solar modulation.