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The differential energy spectrum of cosmic rays exhibits a change of slope, called "knee" of the spectrum, around the nominal energy of 3 x 10^15 eV, and individual "knees" for single ions, at different energies. The present work reports a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Codino , Francois Plouin

A spectrum of cosmic rays within energy range 10^15 - 3x10^17 eV was derived from the data of the small Cherenkov setup, which is a part of the Yakutsk complex EAS array. In this, work a new series of observation is covered. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. P. Knurenko , A. Sabourov

This review focuses on high-energy cosmic rays in the PeV energy range and above. Of particular interest is the knee of the spectrum around 3 PeV and the transition from cosmic rays of Galactic origin to particles from extra-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-15 Thomas K. Gaisser , Todor Stanev , Serap Tilav

The energy spectrum, composition and arrival directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energy above the cosmic ray ankle, measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory, are inconsistent if their origin is assumed to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-07 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A. De Rujula

We present an overview of possible imprints of non-extensitivity in particle and nucler physics. Special emphasis is put on the intrinsic fluctuations present in the system under consideration as the possible source of nonextensivity. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-15 G. Wilk , Z. Wlodarczyk

The small change in the spectral slope of the overall intensity of cosmic rays near 1 PeV may be associated with the endpoint energy of supernova shock acceleration. A crucial test of this connection and other ideas of the origin of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 S. P. Swordy , D. B. Kieda

Spectrum and chemical composition of cosmic rays accelerated in supernova remnants are studied on a basis of kinetic approach. The cosmic ray transport equation with the Bohm diffusion coefficient has been numerically solved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 E. G. Berezhko , G. F. Krymsky , V. K. Yelshin , L. T. Ksenofontov

The recent observations revealed that the cosmic-ray (CR) proton spectrum showed a complex structure: the hardening at $\rm \sim 200~GeV$ and softening at $\rm \sim 10~TeV$. However, so far the physical origins of this spectral feature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang

The origin of the cosmic-ray (CR) knee remains one of the central open questions in particle astrophysics. Recent measurements by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory revealed a pronounced feature in the proton spectrum at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Luis E. Espinosa Castro , Kotha Murase , Carlo Rizza , Francesco L. Villante , Vittoria Vecchiotti , Giulia Pagliaroli

Cosmic rays (CRs) with ~GeV energies can contribute significantly to the energy and pressure budget in the interstellar, circumgalactic, and intergalactic medium (ISM, CGM, IGM). Recent cosmological simulations have begun to explore these…

The nuclei fraction in cosmic rays (CR) far exceeds the fraction of other CR species, such as antiprotons, electrons, and positrons. Thus the majority of information obtained from CR studies is based on interpretation of isotopic abundances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , S. G. Mashnik

The knee phenomenon of the cosmic ray spectrum, which plays an important role in studying the acceleration mechanism of cosmic rays, is still an unsolved mystery. We try to reconcile the knee spectra measured by ARGO-YBJ and Tibet-III. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-22 Yi Zhao , Huan-Yu Jia , Feng-Rong Zhu

We show that the cosmic ray (CR) knee can be entirely explained by energy-dependent CR leakage from the Milky Way, with an excellent fit to all existing data. We test this hypothesis calculating the trajectories of individual CRs in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-07 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are extremely energetic charged particles that originate from outer space. The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, the largest UHECR observatory in the Northern Hemisphere, has provided high-precision…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Jihyun Kim , Dmitri Ivanov , Gordon Thomson

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a decisive role within our own Galaxy. They provide partial pressure support against gravity, they trace past energetic events such as supernovae, and they reveal the underlying structure of the baryonic matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Torsten A. Ensslin , Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Martin Jubelgas

The sharp change in slope of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum around 10^18.6 eV (the ankle), combined with evidence of a light but extragalactic component near and below the ankle and intermediate composition above, has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-04 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar , Luis A. Anchordoqui

Spectra of Cosmic Rays (CRs), particularly their features, may hold essential information about astroparticle and fundamental physics. Realizing that both $4$ PeV CR knee and electron's TeV break have nearly identical Lorentz factor, i.e.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-03 Chao Jin , Wei Liu , Hong-Bo Hu , Yi-Qing Guo

It has been speculated that cosmic string networks could produce ultra-high energy cosmic rays as a by-product of their evolution. By making use of recent work on the evolution of such networks, it will be shown that the flux of cosmic rays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. J. Gill , T. W. B. Kibble

Irregularity in spectrum of the primary cosmic rays (PCR) mass composition at an energy of ~ 10 PeV is considered. To assess changes of the PCR mass composition, the X-ray emulsion chamber (XREC) method and the halo-method based on the XEC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 S. E. Pyatovsky

The hypothesis is considered that the present Galactic cosmic ray spectrum is at present softer than its time average due to source intermittency. Measurements of muogenic nuclides underground could provide an independent measurement of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 David Eichler , Rahul Kumar , Martin Pohl