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Double Pair Production by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Photons

Astrophysics 2009-06-25 v2

Abstract

With use of CompHEP package we've made the detailed estimate of the influence of double e+e- pair production by photons (DPP) on the propagation of ultra high energy electromagnetic cascade. We show that in the models in which cosmic ray photons energy reaches few thousand EeV refined DPP analysis may lead to substantial difference in predicted photon spectrum compared to previous rough estimates.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0859,
  title  = {Double Pair Production by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Photons},
  author = {S. V. Demidov and O. E. Kalashev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0859},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures (misprints removed, 2 additional figures added in ver. 2)