Owen, ER;
Han, Q;
Wu, K;
Yap, YXJ;
Surajbali, P;
(2022)
The contribution of distant sources to the observed flux of ultra high-energy cosmic rays.
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Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference - PoS (ICRC2021).
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Abstract
Ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) interact with cosmic background radiation through hadronic processes, and the Universe would become 'opaque' to UHE CRs of energies ∼(1018-1020) eV over about several tens of Mpc, setting the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min (GZK) horizon. We demonstrate that a non-negligible fraction of the UHE CRs arriving on Earth could originate from beyond the GZK horizon when heavy nuclear CRs, and the population and evolution of UHE CR sources are taken into account. We show how the multi-particle CR horizon is modified by different source populations, and discuss how this leads to the natural emergence of an isotropic flux component in the observed UHE CR background. This component would coexist with an anisotropic foreground component contributed by nearby sources within the GZK horizon.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The contribution of distant sources to the observed flux of ultra high-energy cosmic rays |
| Event: | 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.22323/1.395.0446 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0446 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162336 |
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