Magnetic monopoles as the highest energy cosmic ray primaries

被引：89
作者：
Kephart, TW
Weiler, TJ
机构：
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
来源：
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 1996年 / 4卷 / 03期
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D O I：
10.1016/0927-6505(95)00043-7
中图分类号：
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号：
0704 ;
摘要：
We suggest that the highest energy greater than or similar to 10(20) eV cosmic ray primaries may be relativistic magnetic monopoles. Motivations for this hypothesis are that conventional primaries are problematic, while monopoles are naturally accelerated to E similar to 10(20) eV by galactic magnetic fields. By matching the cosmic monopole production mechanism to the observed highest energy cosmic ray Aux we estimate the monopole mass to be less than or similar to 10(10) GeV.
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