COSMIC-RAYS FROM COSMIC STRINGS

被引:44
作者
GILL, AJ
KIBBLE, TWB
机构
[1] Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, South Kensington
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 50卷 / 06期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.3660
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It has been speculated that cosmic string networks could produce ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays as a by-product of their evolution. By making use of recent work on the evolution of such networks, it will be shown that the flux of cosmic rays from cosmologically useful, that is, GUT scale, strings, is too small to be used as a test for strings with any foreseeable technology.
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页码:3660 / 3665
页数:6
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