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Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Stable H-dibaryon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

It is shown that an instanton induced interaction between quarks produces a very deeply bound H-dibaryon with mass below 2M_N, M_H=1718 MeV. Therefore the H-dibaryon is predicted to be a stable particle. The reaction of photodisintegration of H-dibaryon to 2Λ2\Lambda in during of its penetration into cosmic microwave background will result in a new possible cut-off in the cosmic-ray spectrum. This provides an explanation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray events observed above the GZK cut-off as a result of the strong interaction of high energy H-dibaryons from cosmic rays with nuclei in Earth's atmosphere.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905333,
  title  = {Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Stable H-dibaryon},
  author = {N. I. Kochelev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905333},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, Latex