Cosmic Rays at the Knee
Astrophysics
2016-11-09 v1
Abstract
Several kinds of measurements are combined in an attempt to obtain a consistent estimate of the spectrum and composition of the primary cosmic radiation through the knee region. Assuming that the knee is a signal of the high-energy end of a galactic cosmic-ray population, I discuss possible signatures of a transition to an extra-galactic population and how they might be detected.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608553,
title = {Cosmic Rays at the Knee},
author = {Thomas K. Gaisser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608553},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proc. Workshop on Energy Budget in the High Energy Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Feb 22-24, 2006