Philip von Doetinchem
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Physics & Astronomy Department (Wat 430)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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D. Maurin, L. Audouin, E. Berti, et al.
Precision cross-sections for advancing cosmic-ray physics. Input to the 2026 ESPPU from the XSCRC community
arXiv:2503.2503.22783

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in central Ar+Sc interactions at 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A GeV/c beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
submitted to journal, arXiv:2503.22484

D. Maurin, L. Audouin, E. Berti, et al.
Precision cross-sections for advancing cosmic-ray physics and other applications: a comprehensive programme for the next decade
submitted to journal, arXiv:2503.16173

M. Aguilar, G. Ambrosi, H. Anderson, et al.
Antiprotons and Elementary Particles over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 134, 051002 (2025)

M. Aguilar, G. Ambrosi, H. Anderson, et al.
Solar Modulation of Cosmic Nuclei over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 134, 051001 (2025)

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Measurements of hadron production in 90 GeV/c proton-carbon interactions
submitted to journal, arXiv:2410.23098

M. Aguilar, B. Alpat, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Properties of Cosmic Deuterons Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 132, 261001 (2024)

N. Abgrall, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, et al.
K0S meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 31, 40 and 80 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
EUR PHYS J C 84, 820 (2024), arXiv:2402.17025

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Search for a critical point of strongly-interacting matter in central 40Ar +45Sc collisions at 13A-75A GeV/c beam momentum
EUR PHYS J C 84 (7), 741 (2024), arXiv:2401.03445

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton–proton interactions by NA61/SHINE
EUR PHYS J C 84, 921 (2024), arXiv:2312.13706

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Evidence of isospin-symmetry violation in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei
NAT COMMUN 16, 2849 (2025), arXiv:2312.06572

K. Grebieszkow, M. Mackowiak-Pawlowska, P. von Doetinchem, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2023-030 ; SPSC-SR-336 (2023)

T. Aramaki, M. Boezio, S. Boggs, et al.
GAPS contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Nagoya 2023)
ICRC Proceedings (2023), arXiv:2310.10181

M. Aguilar, G. Ambrosi, H. Anderson, et al.
Temporal Structures in Positron Spectra and Charge-Sign Effects in Galactic Cosmic Rays
PHYS REV LETT 131, 151002 (2023)

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Measurements of π±, K±, p and p¯ spectra in 40Ar+45Sc collisions at 13A to 150A GeV/c
EUR PHYS J C 84, 416 (2024), arXiv:2308.16683

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Measurements of pi+, pi-, p, pbar, K+ and K- production in 120 GeV/c p + C interactions
PHYS REV D 108, 072013 (2023), arXiv:2306.02961

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Properties of Cosmic-Ray Sulfur and Determination of the Composition of Primary Cosmic-Ray Carbon, Neon, Magnesium, and Sulfur: Ten-Year Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 130, 211002 (2023)

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Search for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter in 40Ar + 45Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c using scaled factorial moments of protons
EUR PHYS J C 83 (9), 881 (2023), arXiv:2305.07557

M. Xiao, A. Stoessl, B. Roach, et al.
Large-scale detector testing for the GAPS Si(Li) Tracker
IEEE TRANS NUCL SCI 70 (8), 2125 (2023), arXiv:2305.00283

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Temporal Structures in Electron Spectra and Charge Sign Effects in Galactic Cosmic Rays
PHYS REV LETT 130, 161001 (2023)

D. Gomez-Coral, C. Gerrity, R. Munini, et al.
Current status and new perspectives on cosmic ray deuterons
PHYS REV D 107, 123008 (2023), arXiv:2303.09775

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. Allison, et al.
Measurements of two-pion HBT correlations in Be+Be collisions at 150A GeV/c beam momentum, at the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN
EUR PHYS J C 83, 919 (2023), arXiv:2302.04593

M. Peters, P. von Doetinchem, S. von Doetinchem
Virtual physics laboratory courses: An evaluation of students' self-efficacy and intelligence mindset
arXiv:2301.02699

A. Rybicki, A. Marino, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2022-034 ; SPSC-SR-319 (2022)

J. Cooley, T. Lin, W. H. Lippincott, et al.
Report of the Topical Group on Particle Dark Matter for Snowmass 2021
arXiv:2209.07426

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Properties of Daily Helium Fluxes
PHYS REV LETT 128, 231102 (2022)

F. Rogers, T. Aramaki, M. Boezio, et al.
Sensitivity of the GAPS Experiment to Low-energy Cosmic-ray Antiprotons
ASTROPART PHYS 102791 (2022), arXiv:2206.12991

T. Aramaki, M. Boezio, J. Buckley, et al.
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of cosmic-ray and high-energy photon probes of particle dark matter
arXiv:2203.06894

R. Leane, S. Shin, L. Yang, et al.
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Puzzling Excesses in Dark Matter Searches and How to Resolve Them
arXiv:2203.06859

S. Ando, S. Baum, M. Boylan-Kolchin, et al.
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: Synergies between dark matter searches and multiwavelength/multimessenger astrophysics
arXiv:2203.06781

L. Šerkšnytė, S. Königstorfer, P. von Doetinchem, et al.
Reevaluation of the cosmic antideuteron flux from cosmic-ray interactions and from exotic sources
PHYS REV D 105, 083021 (2022), arXiv:2201.00925

S. Kowalski, E. Zimmerman, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2021-027 ; SPSC-SR-298 (2021)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, M. Allen, et al.
Periodicities in the Daily Proton Fluxes from 2011 to 2019 Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station from 1 to 100 GV
PHYS REV LETT 127, 271102 (2021)

R. Munini, E. Vannuccini, M. Boezio, et al.
The antinucleus annihilation reconstruction algorithm of the GAPS experiment
ASTROPART PHYS 133, 102640 (2021), arXiv:2109.00753

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, M. Allen, et al.
Properties of a New Group of Cosmic Nuclei: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on Sodium, Aluminum, and Nitrogen
PHYS REV LETT 127, 021101 (2021)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, M. Allen, et al.
Properties of Heavy Secondary Fluorine Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 126, 081102 (2021)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, M. Allen, et al.
Properties of Iron Primary Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 126, 041104 (2021)

N. Saffold, T. Aramaki, R. Bird, et al.
Cosmic antihelium-3 nuclei sensitivity of the GAPS experiment
ASTROPART PHYS 130, 102580 (2021), arXiv:2012.05834

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the international space station: Part II — Results from the first seven years
PHYS REP (2020)

A. Shukla, A. Datta, P. von Doetinchem, et al.
Large-scale Simulations of Antihelium Production in Cosmic-ray Interactions
PHYS REV D 102, 063004 (2020), arXiv:2006.12707

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Properties of Neon, Magnesium, and Silicon Primary Cosmic Rays Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 124, 211102 (2020)

P. von Doetinchem, K. Perez, T. Aramaki, et al.
Cosmic-ray Antinuclei as Messengers of New Physics: Status and Outlook for the New Decade
JCAP08 035 (2020), arXiv:2002.04163

A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2019-041, SPSC-SR-261 (2019)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Properties of Cosmic Helium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
PHYS REV LETT 123, 181102 (2019)

R. Bird, T. Aramaki, M. Boezio, et al.
GAPS: Searching for Dark Matter using Antinuclei in Cosmic Rays
ICRC Proceedings (2019), arXiv:1908.03154

S. Schael, A. Atanasyan, J. Berdugo, et al.
AMS-100: The Next Generation Magnetic Spectrometer in Space - An International Science Platform for Physics and Astrophysics at Lagrange Point 2
NUCL INSTR METH A 944, 162561 (2019), arXiv:1907.04168

K. Perez, P. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, et al.
Cosmic-ray Antinuclei as Messengers for Dark Matter
Astro 2020 Science White Paper, arXiv:1904.05938

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Towards Understanding the Origin of Cosmic-Ray Electrons
PHYS REV LETT 122, 101101 (2019)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Towards Understanding the Origin of Cosmic-Ray Positrons
PHYS REV LETT 122, 041102 (2019)

E. Vannuccini, T. Aramaki, R. Bird, et al.
GAPS, low-energy antimatter for indirect dark-matter search
LEAP Proceedings (2018), arXiv:1812.06691

A. Lowell, T. Aramaki, R. Bird, et al.
An Indirect Dark Matter Search Using Cosmic-Ray Antiparticles with GAPS
ICHEP Proceedings (2018), arXiv:1812.04800

A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2018-029, SPSC-SR-239 (2018)

S. Quinn, T. Aramaki, R. Bird, et al.
GAPS: A New Cosmic Ray Anti-matter Experiment
CIPANP Proceedings (2018), arXiv:1809.09714

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Precision Measurement of Cosmic-Ray Nitrogen and its Primary and Secondary Components with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 121, 051103 (2018)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Observation of Complex Time Structures in the Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Fluxes with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 121, 051102 (2018)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Observation of Fine Time Structures in the Cosmic Proton and Helium Fluxes with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 121, 051101 (2018)

D. Gomez-Coral, A. Menchaca Rocha, V. Grabski, et al.
Deuteron and Antideuteron Production Simulation in Cosmic-ray Interactions
PHYS REV D 98, 023012 (2018), arXiv:1806.09303

A. Aduszkiewicz, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, et al.
Measurements of total production cross sections for π++C, π++Al, K++C, and K++Al at 60 GeV/c and π++C and π++Al at 31 GeV/c
arXiv:1805.04546

A. Aduszkiewicz et al.
Study of Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS: Early Post-LS2 Measurements and Future Plans
CERN-SPSC-2018-008, SPSC-P-330-ADD-10 (2018)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Observation of New Properties of Secondary Cosmic Rays Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 120, 021101 (2018)

A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2017-038, SPSC-SR-221 (2017)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Observation of the Identical Rigidity Dependence of He, C, and O Cosmic Rays at High Rigidities by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 119, 251101 (2017)

H. Fuke, T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, et al.
Present Status and Future Plans of GAPS Antiproton and Antideuteron Measurement for Indirect Dark Matter Search
JPS Conf. Proc. 18, 011003 (2017)

R.Ong, T. Aramaki, R. Bird, et al.
The GAPS Experiment to Search for Dark Matter using Low-energy Antimatter
ICRC Proceedings (2017), arXiv:1710.00452

P. von Doetinchem, B. Yamashiro
Geomagnetic Cutoff Calculations for the Interpretation of Low-rigidity Cosmic-ray Antiparticle Measurements
PoS(ICRC2017)151 (2017)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, G. Ambrosi, et al.
Precision Measurement of the Boron to Carbon Flux Ratio in Cosmic Rays from 1.9 GV to 2.6 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 117, 231102 (2016)

A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, et al.
Report from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
CERN-SPSC-2016-038 (2016)

M. Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, et al.
Antiproton Flux, Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio, and Properties of Elementary Particle Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 117, 091103 (2016)

M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, B. Alpat, et al.
Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 115, 211101 (2015)

P. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, et al.
GAPS - Dark matter search with low-energy cosmic-ray antideuterons and antiprotons
ICRC Proceedings (2015), arXiv:1507.02717

P. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, et al.
Status of cosmic-ray antideuteron searches
ICRC Proceedings (2015), arXiv:1507.02712

T. Aramaki, C. Hailey, S. Boggs, et al.
Antideuteron Sensitivity for the GAPS Experiment
ASTROPART PHYS 74, 6 (2016), arXiv:1506.02513

T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, S. Bufalino, et al.
Review of the theoretical and experimental status of dark matter identification with cosmic-ray antideuterons
PHYS REP 618, 1 (2016), arXiv:1505.07785

M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, B. Alpat, et al.
Precision Measurement of the Proton Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from Rigidity 1 GV to 1.8 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 114, 171103 (2015)

M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, B. Alpat, et al.
Precision Measurement of the (e++e−) Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 113, 221102 (2014)

M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, A. Alvino, et al.
Electron and Positron Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 113, 121102 (2014)

L. Accardo, M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, et al.
High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–500 GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
PHYS REV LETT 113, 121101 (2014)

T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, P. von Doetinchem, et al.
Precision Measurement of Low-Energy Antiprotons with GAPS for Dark Matter and Primordial Black Hole Physics
ASTROPART PHYS 59, 12 (2014), arXiv:1401.8245

P. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, N. Bando, et al.
The flight of the GAPS prototype experiment
ASTROPART PHYS 54, 93 (2014), arXiv:1307.3538

I. Mognet, T. Aramaki, N. Bando, et al.
The Prototype GAPS (pGAPS) Experiment
NUCL INSTR METH A 735, 24 (2014), arXiv:1303.1615

K. Perez, T. Aramaki, N. Bando, et al.
The GAPS Experiment: Hunting for Dark Matter with Antideuterons
ICRC Proceedings (2013)

J.J. Beatty, A.E. Nelson, A. Olinto, et al.
Snowmass Cosmic Frontiers 6 (CF6) Working Group Summary - The Bright Side of the Cosmic Frontier: Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics
Report of the CF6 Working Group at Snowmass 2013, arXiv:1310.5662

C. Hailey, T. Aramaki, P. von Doetinchem, R. Ong
Dedicated Indirect Searches for Dark Matter Using Antideuterons
White paper prepared for the Snowmass Community Summer Study (2013), arXiv:1305.02345

M. Aguilar, G. Alberti, B. Alpat, et al.
First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Precision Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5-350 GeV
PHYS REV LETT 110, 141102 (2013)

H. Fuke, R. Ong, T. Aramaki, et al.
The pGAPS experiment: an engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS
ADV SPACE RES 53(10), 1432 (2014), arXiv:1303.0380

C. Hailey, T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, et al.
Antideuteron based Dark Matter search with GAPS: Current progress and future prospects
ADV SPACE RES 51(22), 290 (2013)

P. von Doetinchem, et al.
The search for antideuterons with GAPS
Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, Springer PROC PHYS 148, 105 (2013)

P. von Doetinchem, S. Boggs, T. Aramaki, et al.
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Dark matter search using cosmic-ray antideuterons
PoS(Texas2010)238 (2010)

P. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, S. Boggs, et al.
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Hunt for dark matter using low-energy antideuterons
PoS(IDM2010)063 (2010), arXiv:1012.0273

B. Beischer, P. von Doetinchem, H. Gast, et al.
Perspectives for indirect dark matter search with AMS-2 using cosmic-ray electrons and positrons
New J PHYS 9,11 105021 (2009)

P. von Doetinchem, H. Gast, S. Schael
Search for Cosmic-Ray Antiparticles with Balloon-borne Experiments
ICRC Proceedings (2009), arXiv:0906.1070

P. von Doetinchem, Th. Kirn, K.Luebelsmeyer, S. Schael
The Anticoincidence Counter System of AMS-02
ICRC Proceedings (2009), arXiv:0906.1068

S. Reibe, P. von Doetinchem, B. Madea
A new simulation-based model for calculating a post mortem interval using development data of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
PARASITOL RES, 107, 9 (2010), arXiv:0904.0376

G. Roper Yearwood, B. Beischer, Ch.-H. Chung, et al.
A Scintillating Fiber Tracker With SiPM Readout
NUCL PHYS B-PROC SUP 197(1), 245 (2009), arXiv:0812.0454

P. von Doetinchem, W. Karpinski, Th. Kirn, et al.
The AMS-02 Anticoincidence Counter
NUCL PHYS B-PROC SUP 197(1), 15 (2009), arXiv:0811.4314

B. Beischer, P. von Doetinchem, H. Gast, et al.
Comparison of Geant4 transition radiation and ionization loss simulation to testbeam data
NUCL INSTR METH A 583, 2-3, 485 (2007)

P. von Doetinchem, Henning Gast, T. Kirn, et al.
PEBS - Positron Electron Balloon Spectrometer:
NUCL INSTR METH A 581, 151 (2007)
, astro-ph/0702567

P. von Doetinchem, S. Fopp, W. Karpinski, et al.
Performance of the AMS-02 Transition Radiation Detector
NUCL INSTR METH A 558, 526 (2006), astro-ph/060864

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