Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982phrvl..48..771h&link_type=abstract
Physical Review Letters, vol. 48, Mar. 15, 1982, p. 771-773. Research supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation;
Physics
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Center Of Mass, Heavy Nuclei, Particle Energy, Particle Interactions, Primary Cosmic Rays, Quarks, Hadrons, Muons, Nucleons, Phase Transformations, Secondary Cosmic Rays, Cosmic-Ray Interactions, Nuclear Matter
Scientific paper
An explanation for the amomalous cosmic ray events making up 10% or more of interactions above 100 TeV is proposed which is based on heavy nuclear primaries giving rise to quark matter. It is shown that the 100-TeV threshold for the anomalies corresponds to a center-of-mass energy of 60 GeV/n for Fe-air collisions, at which energy densities sufficient for a phase transition to quark matter appear. The presence of this quark matter would then lead to a significant increase of the energy fraction in the neutral component, the appearance of a penetrating or long-flying charged component, parallel muon bundles, and occasional events with predominantly nucleon secondaries, as observed in the anomalous events. The explanation also implies the existence of a significant heavy primary component in cosmic rays.
Halzen Francis
Liu Chang-Hong
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