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Gravitational Radiation from Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in Models with Large Extra Dimensions

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The effects of classical gravitational radiation in models with large extra dimensions are investigated for ultra high energy cosmic rays (CRs). The cross sections are implemented into a simulation package (SENECA) for high energy hadron induced CR air showers. We predict that gravitational radiation from quasi-elastic scattering could be observed at incident CR energies above 10910^9 GeV for a setting with more than two extra dimensions. It is further shown that this gravitational energy loss can alter the energy reconstruction for CR energies ECR5109E_{\rm CR}\ge 5\cdot 10^9 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0602164,
  title  = {Gravitational Radiation from Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in Models with Large Extra Dimensions},
  author = {Ben Koch and Hans-Joachim Drescher and Marcus Bleicher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0602164},
  year   = {2008}
}