Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Low-Energy Antiproton and Proton Spectra in a Transient Period of Solar Field Reversal

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.