Relativistic Shocks and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin
Astrophysics
2010-11-11 v2
Abstract
The current status of the theory of particle acceleration at relativistic shocks is presented, and a few possible scenarios for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray production at such shocks are briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407531,
title = {Relativistic Shocks and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin},
author = {Jacek Niemiec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407531},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the Vulcano Workshop 2004 "Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics", F. Giovannelli & G. Mannocchi (eds.), Italian Physical Society, Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy (in press) (13 pages, 2 figures)