Magnetic Monopoles as the Highest Energy Cosmic Ray Primaries

Thomas W. Kephart; Thomas J. Weiler

doi:10.1016/0927-6505(95)00043-7

Magnetic Monopoles as the Highest Energy Cosmic Ray Primaries

Astrophysics 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Authors: Thomas W. Kephart , Thomas J. Weiler

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Abstract

We suggest that the highest energy $\gsim 10^{20} eV$ cosmic ray primaries may be relativistic magnetic monopoles. Motivations for this hypothesis are that conventional primaries are problematic, while monopoles are naturally accelerated to $E \sim 10^{20} eV$ by galactic magnetic fields. By matching the cosmic monopole production mechanism to the observed highest energy cosmic ray flux we estimate the monopole mass to be $\sim 10^{10\pm1} GeV$ .

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magnetic monopoles cosmic rays high-energy astrophysics galactic magnetic fields particle acceleration

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9505134,
  title  = {Magnetic Monopoles as the Highest Energy Cosmic Ray Primaries},
  author = {Thomas W. Kephart and Thomas J. Weiler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9505134},
  year   = {2009}
}

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