The cosmic-ray spectra: News on their knees

In a comprehensive model of Cosmic Rays (CRs) proposed a decade ago, the energies of the spectral “knees” of the various CR species were predicted to be proportional to mass, rather than charge. The model also predicts the knees to occur at an energy of two to four million times the particle's...

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Main Author: A. De Rújula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-03-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931930084X