The inhomogeneity of the spectrum of cosmic rays in the region of 10 TV (small knee), observed in the data of direct experiments of cosmic rays, is conside

The authors present the current status of the NUCLEON-2 mission aimed at directly measuring the chemical and isotope composition of galactic cosmic rays. A model-independent method of analysis and the results of an analysis of the beam-test experiment are presented. Future plans as part the Detector Part of the System for Investigating and Irradiating Perspective Semiconductor Micro- and Nanoelectronic Products with High-Energy Ion Beams as Part of the Nica Megaproject (abbreviated DPS-NICA) project are presented.

Results of great astrophysical importance are obtained in processing data collected in the NUCLEON space experiment. The GALPROP package is used to solve t

The description of the inhomogeneity of the cosmic ray spectrum in the region of 10 TV, which is observed in experimental data, in terms of isotropic diffusion from a single close source is considered. It is shown that such a description is possible, and the area of possible localization of the source in space and time and its energy are found. The method of penalty functions is used to account for the data on the spectrum of all particles.

The NUCLEON experiment is designed to measure chemical composition of cosmic rays with charges from Z=1 to 30 in an energy region from 5*10^11 to 10^15 eV. In this article the data analysis algorithm and spectra of Ni and Fe nuclei, measured in the NUCLEON experiment, are presented.