Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1967
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1967natur.215..727a&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 215, Issue 5102, pp. 727-728 (1967).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
THE existence of anti-matter in the universe has intrigued astrophysicists for quite some time. Several authors have suggested the existence and creation of anti-matter at various places in the universe1,2. One way of attempting to verify such possibilities is to see if cosmic rays, which include nuclei accelerated from various regions of our galaxy (if not the whole universe), contain anti-nuclei. Alfven1, however, argues that cosmic rays at the Earth may not contain anti-nuclei for various reasons. Even if this were so, cosmic rays should contain secondary anti-protons produced in collisions of cosmic ray protons with interstellar hydrogen. Estimates of the abundance of secondary anti-protons have been made by several authors: Fradkin3 gives a value (pmacr/p)~5 × 10-4 for anti-protons of energy Ep > 1.7 GeV; Milford and Rosen4 estimate that for Ep~0.5 GeV, (pmacr/p)≲3 × 10-3 and more recently by calculating the energy spectrum of such anti-protons they state5 (the numbers are not published to my knowledge) that the ratio (pmacr/p) at low energies may be greater by several orders of magnitudes than that calculated at high energies.
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