GZK Photons in the Minimal Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Model

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2007-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702464v1

Astropart.Phys.28:390-396,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.08.

In a recently proposed model the cosmic rays spectrum at energies above 10^{18} eV can be fitted with a minimal number of unknown parameters assuming that the extragalactic cosmic rays are only protons with a power law source spectrum ~E^{-alpha} and alpha~2.6. Within this minimal model, after fitting the observed HiRes spectrum with four parameters (proton injection spectrum power law index and maximum energy, minimum distance to sources and evolution parameter) we compute the flux of ultra-high energy photons due to photon-pion production, the GZK photons, for several radio background models and average extragalactic magnetic fields with amplitude between 10^{-11} G and 10^{-9} G. We find the photon fraction to be between 10^{-4} and 10^{-3} in cosmic rays at energies above 10^{19} eV. These small fluxes could only be detected in future experiments like Auger North plus South and EUSO.

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