A Common Antimatter Response in AMS-02 Positrons and Antiprotons
Abstract
I develop a common history-overlap description that gives antiparticle time orientation a physical role beyond its use in field-theory amplitudes. In this framework, opposite orientation reduces the effective overlap with a finite, matter-defined environmental history, while standard local interactions, positive physical energies, and causal detector records are retained. The common geometry connects two contrasting cosmic-ray spectral patterns measured by AMS-02. For positrons, a geometric exposure estimate displaces the broad maximum of an empirical energy-weighted electron reference from 8--10 GeV to the 300--400 GeV region. A number-conserving calculation combines energy redistribution and spatial dilution to interpret the relative weighted height, of order $0.1$. For antiprotons, ordinary secondary production retains the parent-proton history. I extend the same three-direction overlap estimate to the accumulated logarithmic deformation after production. Within this approximation, an ordinary softening of a few tenths leaves a residual additional spectral index of order 0.01, yielding near preservation of the source index and a nearly flat antiproton-to-proton ratio in the production-scaling limit. The positron comparison uses no additional dominant source, and known astrophysical contributions remain allowed. The paired AMS spectra give this time-orientation framework concrete empirical direction: a common geometric description relates a lepton scale displacement to hadronic index preservation and defines explicit targets for independent theoretical and experimental tests.
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BibTeX
@misc{yang2026common,
title = {{A Common Antimatter Response in AMS-02 Positrons and Antiprotons}},
author = {Yi Yang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.04043},
eprint = {2606.04043},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04043},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Common Antimatter Response in AMS-02 Positrons and Antiprotons
AU - Yi Yang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04043
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04043
AB - I develop a common history-overlap description that gives antiparticle time orientation a physical role beyond its use in field-theory amplitudes. In this framework, opposite orientation reduces the effective overlap with a finite, matter-defined environmental history, while standard local interactions, positive physical energies, and causal detector records are retained. The common geometry connects two contrasting cosmic-ray spectral patterns measured by AMS-02. For positrons, a geometric exposure estimate displaces the broad maximum of an empirical energy-weighted electron reference from 8--10 GeV to the 300--400 GeV region. A number-conserving calculation combines energy redistribution and spatial dilution to interpret the relative weighted height, of order $0.1$. For antiprotons, ordinary secondary production retains the parent-proton history. I extend the same three-direction overlap estimate to the accumulated logarithmic deformation after production. Within this approximation, an ordinary softening of a few tenths leaves a residual additional spectral index of order 0.01, yielding near preservation of the source index and a nearly flat antiproton-to-proton ratio in the production-scaling limit. The positron comparison uses no additional dominant source, and known astrophysical contributions remain allowed. The paired AMS spectra give this time-orientation framework concrete empirical direction: a common geometric description relates a lepton scale displacement to hadronic index preservation and defines explicit targets for independent theoretical and experimental tests.
ER -