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Insight into History of GCR Heavy Nuclei Fluxes by Their Tracks in Meteorites

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The OLIMPIYA project investigates tracks of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) in olivine crystals from two meteorites-pallasites of different exposure ages. Extended statistics (up to 21 743 processed tracks) enabled to reveal a difference between the charge spectra of heaviest nuclei registered in these pallasites versus those from detectors mounted on near-Earth orbit satellites, as well as a difference between the GCR spectra registered in the meteorites themselves. Comparison of the \(r\)-element abundances in these spectra points that GCR fluxes from at least two rare cosmic nucleosynthesis events with enhanced production of these elements reached the Solar System during the exposition age of the older meteorite. Correlations of the experimental results with parameters of supernovae, asymptotic giant branches stars and neutron star mergers (NSM) are also discussed.

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  1. Since the term ‘‘superheavy nuclei’’ still has not precise meaning [3], we will use in this paper group names most mentioned in the recent literature. Nuclei with \(25<Z<30\) are traditionally called Very Heavy (VH), nuclei with \(30<Z<92\) are called Very Very Heavy (VVH) ([4]), \(92<Z<100\)—transuranic elements, \(101<Z<112\)—transfermium elements, \(Z>112\)—superheavy [3]. VVH are also called Ultra Heavy (UH).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to Prof. Yu.Ts. Oganesyan for fruitful discussions and support as well as providing with meteorite samples for the research.

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The work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and High Education of the Russian Federation in the framework of Project no. 16 APPA (GSI). S. Gorbunov, P. Babaev, R. Voronkov, and A. Volkov acknowledge support from the Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 22-22-00676, https://rscf.ru/en/project/22-22-00676/).

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Alexandrov, A.B., Bagulya, A.V., Babaev, P.A. et al. Insight into History of GCR Heavy Nuclei Fluxes by Their Tracks in Meteorites. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 85, 446–458 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778822050039

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