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Anisotropy is very important to understand cosmic ray (CR) source and interstellar environment. The theoretical explanation of cosmic rays anisotropy from experiments remains challenging and even puzzling for a long time. In this paper, by…

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Within the classical convection--diffusion approximation, we show that the angular distribution of cosmic rays (CRs) in a highly turbulent flow may exhibit significant small-scale anisotropies. The CR intensity angular power spectrum $…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays, EECRs -- cosmic rays with energies beyond the GZK cutoff (i.e. greater than 100 EeV) are scarce. Only a few of such events have been detected by air shower experiments and the nature of the primary particles are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Noémie Globus , Anatoli Fedynitch , Roger Blandford

Low-energy cosmic rays are a fundamental source of ionization for molecular clouds, influencing their chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution. The purpose of this work is to explore the possibility that a low-energy component of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli , Alfred E. Glassgold

Cosmic rays (CRs) with energies $\ll$ TeV comprise a significant component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Major uncertainties in CR behavior on observable scales (much larger than CR gyroradii) stem from how magnetic fluctuations scatter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Iryna S. Butsky , Philip F. Hopkins , Philipp Kempski , Sam B. Ponnada , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

Anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) produced by powerful sources is numerically evaluated. We show that, taking account of the Galactic magnetic field, nondetection of significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-22 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer

Precise measurements of the boron-to-carbon and boron-to-oxygen ratios by DAMPE show clear hardenings around $100$ GeV/n, which provide important implications on the production, propagation, and interaction of Galactic cosmic rays. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Peng-Xiong Ma , Zhi-Hui Xu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Zhong Fan , Igor V. Moskalenko , Chuan Yue

This study investigates the nonlinear interactions between electrons and electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating beams in magnetized, low-temperature fusion plasmas, focusing on enhancing pre-ionization efficiency. We analyse key…

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In this study, we investigate the role of nuclear deformation on the calculated electron capture cross section (ECC) of even-even chromium (Cr) isotopes. We first determined the nuclear structure properties of these nuclei within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Jameel-Un Nabi , Mahmut Boyukata , Asim Ullah , Muhammad Riaz

Cosmic ray (CR) electrons are key tracers of non-thermal processes in galaxies, yet their spectra are often modelled under the untested assumption of steady state between injection and cooling. In this work, we present a time-dependent…

The anisotropy of cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar vicinity is generally at- tributed to the CR streaming due to the discrete distribution of CR sources or local magnetic field modulation. Recently, the two dimensional large scale CR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 Xiao-bo Qu , Yi Zhang , Liang Xue , Cheng Liu , Hong-bo Hu

We develop a fully three dimensional numerical code describing the diffusion of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. It includes the nuclear spallation chain up to Oxygen, and allows the study of various cosmic ray properties, such as the CR age,…

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Radiative capture reactions are one of the main inputs in stellar modelling. In numerous situations, the low energies at which these reactions occur in stars are not accessible with present experimental techniques. Electron screening is one…

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Solar flare observations are used to demonstrate the new technique of abundance determination based on gamma ray line emission produced by accelerated particle bombardment. Some of the implications of similar gamma ray line emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reuven Ramaty

Galactic cosmic rays are a ubiquitous source of ionisation of the interstellar gas, competing with UV and X-ray photons as well as natural radioactivity in determining the fractional abundance of electrons, ions and charged dust grains in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Marco Padovani , Alexei V. Ivlev , Daniele Galli , Paola Caselli

The measurement of light isotope components in cosmic rays (CR) like3He,2H (D)and6Li are some of the most valuable tools for understanding the propagation of CR in the galaxy and constrain the models that describe it. In this work a new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-17 F. Dimiccoli , R. Battiston , K. Kanishchev , F. Nozzoli , P. Zuccon

Recent measurements of the positron/electron ratio in the cosmic ray (CR) flux exhibits an apparent anomaly, whereby this ratio increases between 10 and 100 GeV. In contrast, this ratio should decrease according to the standard scenario, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-08 Tsvi Piran , Nir J. Shaviv , Ehud Nakar

We study the impact of possible spiral-arm distributions of Galactic cosmic-ray sources on the flux of various cosmic-ray nuclei throughout our Galaxy. We investigate model cosmic-ray spectra at the nominal position of the sun and at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralf Kissmann , Michael Werner , Olaf Reimer , Andrew W. Strong

The chemical composition of the highest-energy cosmic rays, namely the atomic number $Z$ of rays with energies $E\gtrsim40~\mathrm{EeV}$, remains to date largely unknown. Some information on the composition can be inferred from the…

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