Signatures of Protons in UHECR

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2003-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302483v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Extended version of the paper to be published in Proc. of Int. Workshop "Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays" (Tokyo, November 2

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We demonstrate that the energy spectra of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) as observed by AGASA, Fly's Eye, HiRes and Yakutsk detectors, have the imprints of UHE proton interaction with the CMB radiation as the dip centered at $E\sim 1\times 10^{19}$ eV, beginning of the GZK cutoff, and very good agreement with calculated spectrum shape. This conclusion about proton composition agrees with recent HiRes data on elongation rate that support the proton composition at $E\geq 1\times 10^{18}$ eV. The visible bump in the spectrum at $E \sim 4\times 10^{19}$ eV is not caused by pile-up protons, but is an artifact of multiplying the spectrum by $E^3$. We argue that these data, combined with small-angle clustering and correlation with AGN (BL Lacs), point to the AGN model of UHECR origin at energies $E \leq 1\times 10^{20}$ eV. The events at higher energies and the excess of the events at $E \geq 1\times 10^{20}$ eV, which is observed by AGASA (but absent in the HiRes data) must be explained by another component of UHECR, e.g. by UHECR from superheavy dark matter.

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