A depression before a bump in the highest energy cosmic ray spectrum

被引:25
作者
Anchordoqui, LA
Dova, MT
Epele, LN
Swain, JD
机构
[1] Univ Nacl La Plata, Dept Fis, RA-1900 La Plata, Argentina
[2] Northeastern Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02115 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1998年 / 57卷 / 12期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.7103
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We reexamine the interaction of ultrahigh energy nuclei with the microwave background radiation. We find that the giant dipole resonance leaves a new signature in the differential energy spectrum of iron sources located around 3 Mpc: A depression before a bump which is followed by the expected cutoff.
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页码:7103 / 7107
页数:5
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