Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in Extragalactic Magnetic Fields

Open Physics ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Wibig
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Energy Spectra ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Open Question

AbstractIn this paper we will discuss the problem of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and show that the idea of a Single Source Model established by Erlykin and Wolfendale (1997) to explain the features seen in cosmic ray energy spectra around the 1015 eV region can be successfully applied also for the much higher energies. The propagation of UHECR (of energies higher than 1019 eV) in extragalactic magnetic fields can no longer be described as a random walk (diffusion) process and the transition to rectilinear propagation gives a possible explanation for the so-called Greisen-Zatzepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cut-off which still remains an open question after almost 40 years. A transient “single source” located at a particular distance and producing UHECR for a finite time is the proposed solution.

scholarly journals Intercluster magnetic fields and ultra high energy cosmic rays

2010 ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
H. Arjomand ◽  
S.J. Fatemi ◽  
R. Clay
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Characteristic Time ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Straight Lines

Cosmic rays travel at speeds essentially indistinguishable from the speed of light. However, whilst travelling through magnetic fields, both regular and turbulent, they are delayed behind the light since they are usually charged particles and their paths are not straight lines. Those delays can be so long that they are an impediment to correctly identifying sources, which may be variable in time. The magnitude of such delays will be discussed and compared to the characteristic time variation of possible cosmic ray sources.

ENERGY ORDERING EFFECTS IN THE ARRIVAL DIRECTIONS OF ULTRA-HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS MEASURED BY THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (supp02) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
◽  
PETER SCHIFFER
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Pierre Auger Observatory ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Ordering Effects ◽  
Arrival Directions

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest experiment for the measurement of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). These UHECRs are assumed to be to be charged particles, and thus are deflected in cosmic magnetic fields. Recent results of the Pierre Auger Observatory addressing the complex of energy ordering of the UHECRs arrival directions are reviewed in this contribution. So far no significant energy ordering has been observed.

scholarly journals High energy cosmic ray interactions and UHECR composition problem

2019 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Sergey Ostapchenko
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
Hadronic Interactions ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Cosmic Ray Interactions ◽  
Composition Problem

The differences between contemporary Monte Carlo generators of high energy hadronic interactions are discussed and their impact on the interpretation of experimental data on ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is studied. Key directions for further model improvements are outlined. The prospect for a coherent interpretation of the data in terms of the UHECR composition is investigated.

Lensing of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields

2002 ◽  
Vol 2002 (03) ◽  
pp. 045-045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Harari ◽  
Silvia Mollerach ◽  
Esteban Roulet ◽  
Federico Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays

scholarly journals COLOR GLASS CONDENSATE IN BRANE MODELS OR DON'T ULTRA HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS PROBE 1015eV SCALE?

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (06) ◽  
pp. 419-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOURI ZIAEEPOUR
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Extra Dimension ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Density ◽  
Color Glass ◽  
Color Glass Condensate ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Brane Models

In a previous work1 we have studied the propagation of relativistic particles in the bulk for some of the most popular brane models. Constraints have been put on the parameter space of these models by calculating the time delay due to propagation in the bulk of particles created during the interaction of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) with protons in the terrestrial atmosphere. The question was, however, raised that probability of hard processes in which bulk modes can be produced is small and consequently, the tiny flux of UHECRs cannot constrain brane models. Here we use Color Glass Condensate (CGC) model to show that effects of extra dimensions are visible not only in hard processes when the incoming photon/parton hits a massive Kaluza–Klein mode but also through the modification of soft/semi-hard parton distribution. At classical level, for an observer in the CM frame of UHECR and atmospheric hadrons, color charge sources are contracted to a thin sheet with a width inversely proportional to the energy of the ultra energetic cosmic ray hadron and consequently they can see an extra dimension with comparable size. Due to QCD interaction, a short life swarm of partons is produced in front of the sheet and its partons can penetrate to the extra-dimension bulk. This reduces the effective density of partons on the brane or in a classical view creates a delay in the arrival of the most energetic particles if they are reflected back due to the warping of the bulk. In CGC approximation the density of swarm at different distances from the classical sheet can be related and therefore it is possible (at least formally) to determine the relative fraction of partons in the bulk and on the brane at different scales. Results of this work are also relevant to the test of brane models in hadron colliders like LHC.

scholarly journals CODALEMA: A COSMIC RAY AIR SHOWER RADIO DETECTION EXPERIMENT

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. ARDOUIN ◽  
A. BELLETOILE ◽  
D. CHARRIER ◽  
R. DALLIER ◽  
L. DENIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Detection Experiment ◽  
Transient Signals ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Air Shower ◽  
Radio Detection

The CODALEMA experimental device currently detects and characterizes the radio contribution of cosmic ray air showers : arrival directions and electric field topologies of radio transient signals associated to cosmic rays are extracted from the antenna signals. The measured rate, about 1 event per day, corresponds to an energy threshold around 5.1016eV. These results allow to determine the perspectives offered by the present experimental design for radiodetection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays at a larger scale.

scholarly journals Search for the astrophysical sources of the Fly's Eye event with the highest to date cosmic ray energy E=3.2·1020 eV

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gnatyk ◽  
Yu. Kudrya ◽  
V. Zhdanov
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Tidal Disruption ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
Tracking Method ◽  
Primary Nucleus ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays

Among the registered extremely high energy cosmic rays (EHECR, E=3.2·1020 eV) an event with the highest to date energy of E=3.2·1020 eV was detected by the Fly's Eye experiment (FE event) in 1991. With the use of the back-tracking method for the calculation of the EHECR trajectories in Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, we show that the galaxies UGC 03574 and UGC 03394 are the most promising candidates among the nearby extragalactic sources for the cases of iron and C-N-O group primary nucleus respectively. The most likely accelerating mechanisms are the newly-born millisecond pulsars, magnetar flares and tidal disruption events in these galaxies.

The angular deviation of ultra high energy cosmic rays in intergalactic magnetic fields

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W. Clay ◽  
S. Cook ◽  
B.R. Dawson ◽  
A.G.K. Smith ◽  
R. Lampard
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Angular Deviation ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays

scholarly journals Origins of Extragalactic Cosmic Ray Nuclei by Contracting Alignment Patterns induced in the Galactic Magnetic Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 04004
Author(s):  
Martin Erdmann ◽  
Lukas Geiger ◽  
David Schmidt ◽  
Martin Urban ◽  
Marcus Wirtz
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
Galactic Magnetic Field ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Astrophysical Scenario ◽  
The Individual

We present a novel approach to search for origins of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In a simultaneous fit to all observed cosmic rays we use the galactic magnetic field as a mass spectrometer and adapt the nuclear charges such that their extragalactic arrival directions are concentrated in as few directions as possible. During the fit the nuclear charges are constraint by the individual energy and shower depth measurements. We show in a simulated astrophysical scenario that source directions can be reconstructed even within a substantial isotropic background.

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