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S. and Chen, Y. and Cheng, L. and Chou, H. Y. and Choumilov, E. and Choutko, V. and Chung, C. H. and Clark, C. and Clavero, R. and Coignet, G. and Consolandi, C. and Contin, A. and Corti, C. and Creus, W. and Crispoltoni, M. and Cui, Z. and Dadzie, K. and Dai, Y. M. and Datta, A. and Delgado, C. and Della Torre, S. and Demirköz, M. B. and Derome, L. and Di Falco, S. and Dimiccoli, F. and Díaz, C. and von Doetinchem, P. and Dong, F. and Donnini, F. and Duranti, M. and Egorov, A. and Eline, A. and Eronen, T. and Feng, J. and Fiandrini, E. and Fisher, P. and Formato, V. and Galaktionov, Y. and Gallucci, G. and García-López, R. J. and Gargiulo, C. and Gast, H. and Gebauer, I. and Gervasi, M. and Ghelfi, A. and Giovacchini, F. and Gómez-Coral, D. M. and Gong, J. and Goy, C. and Grabski, V. and Grandi, D. and Graziani, M. and Guo, K. H. and Haino, S. and Han, K. C. and He, Z. H. and Heil, M. and Hsieh, T. H. and Huang, H. and Huang, Z. C. and Incagli, M. and Jia, Yi and Jinchi, H. and Kanishev, K. and Khiali, B. and Kirn, Th. and Konak, C. and Kounina, O. and Kounine, A. and Koutsenko, V. and Kulemzin, A. and La Vacca, G. and Laudi, E. and Laurenti, G. and Lazzizzera, I. and Lebedev, A. and Lee, H. T. and Lee, S. C. and Leluc, C. and Li, H. S. and Li, J. Q. and Li, Q. and Li, T. X. and Li, Z. H. and Li, Z. Y. and Lin, C. H. and Lipari, P. and Lippert, T. and Liu, D. and Liu, Hu and Liu, Z. and Lordello, V. D. and Lu, S. Q. and Lu, Y. S. and Luebelsmeyer, K. and Luo, F. and Luo, J. Z. and Lyu, S. S. and Machate, F. and Mañá, C. and Marín, J. and Martin, T. and Martínez, G. and Masi, N. and Maurin, D. and Menchaca-Rocha, A. and Meng, Q. and Mikuni, V. M. and Mo, D. C. and Mott, P. and Mussolin, L. and Nelson, T. and Ni, J. Q. and Nikonov, N. and Nozzoli, F. and Oliva, A. and Orcinha, M. and Palermo, M. and Palmonari, F. and Palomares, C. and Paniccia, M. and Pauluzzi, M. and Pensotti, S. and Perrina, C. and Phan, H. D. and Picot-Clemente, N. and Pilo, F. and Plyaskin, V. and Pohl, M. and Poireau, V. and Quadrani, L. and Qi, X. M. and Qin, X. and Qu, Z. Y. and Räihä, T. and Rancoita, P. G. and Rapin, D. and Ricol, J. S. and Rosier-Lees, S. and Rozhkov, A. and Rozza, D. and Sagdeev, R. and Schael, S. and Schmidt, S. M. and Schulz von Dratzig, A. and Schwering, G. and Seo, E. S. and Shan, B. S. and Shi, J. Y. and Siedenburg, T. and Song, J. W. and Tacconi, M. and Tang, X. W. and Tang, Z. C. and Tescaro, D. and Tian, J. and Ting, Samuel C. C. and Ting, S. M. and Tomassetti, N. and Torsti, J. and Urban, T. and Vagelli, V. and Valente, E. and Valtonen, E. and Vázquez Acosta, M. and Vecchi, M. and Velasco, M. and Vialle, J. P. and Wang, L. Q. and Wang, N. H. and Wang, Q. L. and Wang, X. and Wang, X. Q. and Wang, Z. X. and Wei, C. C. and Wei, J. and Weng, Z. L. and Whitman, K. and Wu, H. and Xiong, R. Q. and Xu, W. and Yan, Q. and Yang, M. and Yang, Y. and Yi, H. and Yu, Y. J. and Yu, Z. Q. and Zannoni, M. and Zeissler, S. and Zhang, C. and Zhang, F. and Zhang, J. and Zhang, J. H. and Zhang, S. W. and Zhang, Z. and Zheng, Z. M. and Zhuang, H. L. and Zhukov, V. and Zichichi, A. and Zimmermann, N. and Zuccon, P.}, title = {{P}recision {M}easurement of {C}osmic-{R}ay {N}itrogen and its {P}rimary and {S}econdary {C}omponents with the {A}lpha {M}agnetic {S}pectrometer on the {I}nternational {S}pace {S}tation}, journal = {Physical review letters}, volume = {121}, number = {5}, issn = {1079-7114}, address = {College Park, Md.}, publisher = {APS}, reportid = {FZJ-2018-05285}, pages = {051103}, year = {2018}, abstract = {A precision measurement of the nitrogen flux with rigidity (momentum per unit charge) from 2.2 GV to 3.3 TV based on 2.2×106 events is presented. The detailed rigidity dependence of the nitrogen flux spectral index is presented for the first time. The spectral index rapidly hardens at high rigidities and becomes identical to the spectral indices of primary He, C, and O cosmic rays above ∼700 GV. We observed that the nitrogen flux ΦN can be presented as the sum of its primary component ΦPN and secondary component ΦSN, ΦN=ΦPN+ΦSN, and we found ΦN is well described by the weighted sum of the oxygen flux ΦO (primary cosmic rays) and the boron flux ΦB (secondary cosmic rays), with ΦPN=(0.090±0.002)×ΦO and ΦSN=(0.62±0.02)×ΦB over the entire rigidity range. This corresponds to a change of the contribution of the secondary cosmic ray component in the nitrogen flux from $70\%$ at a few GV to $<30\%$ above 1 TV.}, cin = {JSC / VS-I / JARA-FAME / JARA-HPC}, ddc = {550}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)VS-I-20090406 / $I:(DE-82)080023_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$}, pnm = {513 - Supercomputer Facility (POF3-513) / Cosmic-ray physics with the AMS experiment on the International Space Station $(jara0052_20150501)$}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-513 / $G:(DE-Juel1)jara0052_20150501$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:30118280}, UT = {WOS:000440386100003}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.051103}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/851761}, }