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来自“脚踝”上方河外源的重Cosmic Ray核

Heavy Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Extragalactic Sources above 'The Ankle'

Tadeusz Wibig, Arnold W. Wolfendale

摘要:

俄歇天文台小组最近的一项观测声称,有强有力的证据表明,56 eV以上的宇宙射线是来自活动星系核的质子。如果像预期的那样,脚踝以上大约2 EeV的粒子几乎都是河外起源的,那么这些粒子的核相互作用的特征将需要与传统的预期非常不同-这一结果来自俄歇工作中测量的“簇射最大值”的位置。我们自己的分析给出了一个不同的结果,即检测到的粒子仍然是“大质量的”,具体来说,平均值为<ln A>= 2.2 +- 0.8。对核物理学进行重大变革的必要性消失了。

英文摘要:

A very recent observation by the Auger Observatory group claims strong evidence for cosmic rays above 56 EeV being protons from Active Galactic Nuclei. If, as would be expected, the particles above the ankle at about 2 EeV are almost all of extragalactic origin then it follows that the characteristics of the nuclear interactions of such particles would need to be very different from conventional expectation -- a result that follows from the measured positions of 'shower maximum' in the Auger' work. Our own analysis gives a different result, viz that the detected particles are still 'massive' specifically with a mean value of <ln A> = 2.2 +- 0.8. The need for a dramatic change in the nuclear physics disappears.

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