Origin and propagation of extremely high-energy cosmic rays

P Bhattacharjee, G Sigl - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
Cosmic-ray particles with energies in excess of 1020eV have been detected. The sources as
well as the physical mechanism (s) responsible for endowing cosmic-ray particles with such …

Observations and implications of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays

M Nagano, AA Watson - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2000 - APS
The authors define “ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays”(UHECRs) as those cosmic rays with
energies above 10 18 eV. It had been anticipated that there would be a cutoff in the energy …

Cosmic-ray neutrino annihilation on relic neutrinos revisited: a mechanism for generating air showers above the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff

TJ Weiler - Astroparticle Physics, 1999 - Elsevier
If neutrinos are a significant contributor to the matter density of the universe, then they
should have∼ eV mass and cluster in galactic (super) cluster halos, and possibly in galactic …

Astrophysical origins of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

DF Torres, LA Anchordoqui - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
In the first part of this review we discuss the basic observational features at the end of the
cosmic ray (CR) energy spectrum. We also present there the main characteristics of each of …

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays: The state of the art before the auger observatory

L Anchordoqui, T Paul, S Reucroft… - International Journal of …, 2003 - World Scientific
In this review we discuss the important progress made in recent years towards
understanding the experimental data on cosmic rays with energies≳ 1019 eV. We begin …

Signatures of topological defects

V Berezinsky, P Blasi, A Vilenkin - Physical Review D, 1998 - APS
We argue that due to various restrictions cosmic strings and monopole-string networks are
not likely to produce the observed flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR). Among the …

Crystals of superconducting Baryonic tubes in the low energy limit of QCD at finite density

F Canfora, M Lagos, A Vera - The European Physical Journal C, 2020 - Springer
The low energy limit of QCD admits (crystals of) superconducting Baryonic tubes at finite
density. We begin with the Maxwell-gauged Skyrme model in (3+ 1)-dimensions (which is …

[HTML][HTML] Gravitating superconducting solitons in the (3+1)-dimensional Einstein gauged non-linear -model

F Canfora, A Giacomini, M Lagos, SH Oh… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we construct the first analytic examples of\((3+ 1)\)-dimensional self-gravitating
regular cosmic tube solutions which are superconducting, free of curvature singularities and …

Exact -waves, (A)dS waves, and Kundt spaces in the Abelian-Higgs model

F Canfora, A Cisterna, D Hidalgo, J Oliva - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We find new exact solutions of the Abelian-Higgs model coupled to general relativity,
characterized by a nonvanishing superconducting current. The solutions correspond to pp …

Ultra high energy cosmic rays

V Berezinsky - Nuclear Physics B-Proceedings Supplements, 2000 - Elsevier
The current status of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) is reviewed, with emphasis
given to elementary particle solutions to UHECR problem, namely to Topological Defects …