A Common Antimatter Response in AMS-02 Positrons and Antiprotons

arXiv:2606.04043 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-06-02 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-06-02

Updated: 2026-09-29

Comments: major revision

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

The gist: I present a common finite-history picture for the contrasting spectra of cosmic-ray positrons and antiprotons.

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I present a common finite-history picture for the contrasting spectra of cosmic-ray positrons and antiprotons. Particles and antiparticles retain opposite Dirac phase orientations relative to ordinary matter clocks, while local interactions and positive physical energies remain unchanged. The finite-history description assigns their accumulated response a different overlap with the matter-defined Galactic environment. Its leading effect is represented by a single, approximately shape-preserving rescaling. For positrons, an illustrative overlap benchmark moves the broad structure of an empirical electron reference near 10 GeV into the few-hundred-GeV region, without introducing a separate dominant source specifically to generate that feature. A number-conserving spatial-dilution example provides an order-of-magnitude interpretation of the relative amplitude. For antiprotons, ordinary secondary production supplies an approximately power-law reference; a scale-neutral response preserves its index and gives a nearly constant antiproton-to-proton ratio. Direct comparisons with the published AMS-02 spectra illustrate these two outcomes using fixed, rounded scales. The resulting characteristic-scale displacement and spectral-index preservation provide a unified physical organization of two otherwise different antimatter observations.

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