Top-Down Models and Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We developed numerical code for calculation of the extragalactic component of the spectra of leptons, nucleons and -rays resulting from ``top-down'' (non-acceleration) models for the case of uniform and isotropic source distribution. We explored two different classes of ``top-down'' scenarios: the wide earlier investigated class of X particles coming from collapse and/or annihilation of cosmic topological defects (such as cosmic strings, monopoles, etc.) and the models of super-heavy long-living X particles with lifetime of the order or much greater than the current Universe age.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911035,
title = {Top-Down Models and Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays},
author = {O. E. Kalashev and V. A. Kuzmin and D. V. Semikoz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911035},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 postscript figures, made some corrections