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A Forbush decrease (FD) is a sudden drop of cosmic-ray intensity arising as an effect of coronal mass ejection (CME) propagation in interplanetary space. The different physical properties of each CME cause variability in the FDs observed by scientific instruments. A comprehensive study of both phenomena is required to properly understand the processes involved in FDs. Most of the current studies in this field use experimental data obtained by ground-based apparatus that measure the flux of cosmic rays via their interaction with Earth’s atmosphere. Direct measurements in space of FDs are rather rare. In this work, we present the results obtained by the spacecraft-borne experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA). The experiment took data from 15 June 2006 until January 2016. A series of FDs during the period 2006 – 2013 were studied. Only significant events with amplitude ≥ 10% for the proton flux \(R = 1.1\) – 2.9 GV were taken into account. The dependencies of the recovery times on the particle rigidity were obtained for FD events generated by halo-type CMEs.
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Event selection and data analysis have been performed with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 20-72-10170. Theoretical treatment of obtained results was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, project “Fundamental problems of cosmic rays and dark matter”, no. 0723-2020-0040.
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Lagoida, I.A., Voronov, S.A., Mikhailov, V.V. et al. Study of Forbush Decrease Recovery Times by the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-Nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) Experiment. Sol Phys 298, 9 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-022-02097-z
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