On the Propagation of Extragalactic High Energy Cosmic and Gamma-Rays

Details On the Propagation of Extragalactic High Energy Cosmic and Gamma-Rays On the Propagation of Extragalactic High Energy Cosmic and Gamma-Rays

Jan 1996

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Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1996.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: B, page: 3

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The observation of air showers from elementary particles with energies exceeding 10^{20 } eV poses a puzzle to the physics and astrophysics of cosmic rays which is still unresolved. Explaining the origin and nature of these particles is a challenge. In order to constrain production mechanisms and sites, one has to account for the processing of particle spectra by interactions with radiation backgrounds and magnetic fields on the way to the observer. In this paper, I report on an extensive study on the propagation of extragalactic nucleons, gamma-rays, and electrons in the energy range between 10^8 eV and 1023 eV. I have devised an efficient numerical method to solve the transport equations for cosmic ray spectral evolution. The universal radiation background spectrum in the energy range between ~eq10^{-9} eV and ~eq1 eV is considered in the numerical code, including the diffuse radio background, the cosmic microwave background, and the infrared/optical background, as well as a possible extragalactic magnetic field. I apply the code to compute the particle spectra predicted by various models of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray origin. A comparison with the observed fluxes, especially the diffuse gamma-ray background in several energy ranges, allows one to constrain certain classes of models. I conclude that scenarios which attribute the highest energy cosmic rays to Grand Unification Scale physics or to cosmological Gamma Ray Bursts are viable at the present time.

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