On the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray horizon

2006/09/30 by D. Harari, Diego Harari, S. Mollerach +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Horizon #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Physics #Proton #Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2006/11/012

published as JCAP0611:012,2006 · references added, matches version published in JCAP

arxiv created 2006/11/06 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We compute the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray horizon, i.e. the distance up to which cosmic ray sources may significantly contribute to the fluxes above a certain threshold on the observed energies. We obtain results both for proton and heavy nuclei sources.

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