Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, Grand Unified Theories, and the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background

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dc.creatorSigl, Guenter
dc.creatorLee, Sangjin
dc.creatorCoppi, Paolo
dc.date1996-04-16
dc.date1996-10-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:01:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:01:57Z
dc.descriptionWe explore scenarios where the highest energy cosmic rays (HECR) are produced by new particle physics near the grand unification scale. Using detailed numerical simulations of extragalactic cosmic and gamma-ray propagation, we show the existence of a significant parameter space for which such scenarios are consistent with all observational constraints. An average fraction of about 10% gamma-rays in the total cosmic ray flux around 10 EeV [10**(19) eV] would imply both a non-acceleration origin of HECR and a large scale extragalactic magnetic field smaller than about 10**(-11) G. Proposed observatories for ultra-high energy cosmic rays should be able to test for this signature.
dc.description5 latex pages, 3 postscript figures included, uses revtex.sty and psfig.sty. Considerably revised version, uses improved QCD fragmentation functions and normalization procedure to the data and reaches somewhat more general conclusions. Differences to results in astro-ph/9605036 by Protheroe/Stanev are pointed out. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9604093
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9604093
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/148461
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleHighest Energy Cosmic Rays, Grand Unified Theories, and the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background
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