Are high energy cosmic rays magnetic monopoles?

被引：22

作者：

Escobar, CO

Vázquez, RA

机构：

[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil

[2] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Fis Gleb Wataghin, UNICAMP, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP, Brazil

[3] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01405900 Sao Paulo, Brazil

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 1999年 / 10卷 / 2-3期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0927-6505(98)00045-0

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We argue that the hypothesis of magnetic monopoles as being the highest energy cosmic ray events is unlikely. For reasonable values of the monopole mass both the observed spectrum and the arrival direction disagree with observation. Our conclusions could be evaded if (i) monopoles are accelerated in the extragalactic magnetic fields to energies much above the observed energies and (ii) the amount of energy that the monopole yields to the shower is small. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.

引用

页码：197 / 202

页数：6

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