Ultra high energy cosmic rays: The disappointing model

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 620-626

  Aloisio, R ^a   Berezinsky, V ^a,b   Gazizov, A ^b,c  

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^b Gran Sasso Astroparticle Center   (Italy)

^c B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray experiment; Cosmic ray theory; Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; ATOMIC WEIGHTS; AVERAGE ENERGY; BACKGROUND RADIATION; CHARGE NUMBER; COSMOGENIC NEUTRINOS; ENERGY RANGES; EXTRAGALACTIC ORIGIN; FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; MASS COMPOSITION; MAXIMUM ACCELERATION; PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY; ULTRAHIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS;

AUGERS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; COSMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RIGIDITY;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 79251624150     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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