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Nuclear Disintegration in Magnetic Fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We employ the Weizsaecker-Williams method of virtual quanta to study disintegration of nuclei in magnetic field. We explore a variety of field configurations and conclude that for the energy range of interest for applications to cosmic rays (10^{18}-10^{21} eV) such disintegrations are not a significant source of energy or flux loss for any realistic acceleration mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0206244,
  title  = {Nuclear Disintegration in Magnetic Fields},
  author = {Lee C. Loveridge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0206244},
  year   = {2007}
}