The end of the galactic cosmic-ray energy spectrum - a phenomenological view

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2005-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508015v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.47:132-141,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Invited talk, presented at the "Workshop on Physics of the End of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum", Aspen, USA, April 25 - 29

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/47/1/017

Two structures in the all-particle energy spectrum of cosmic rays, the knee at 4 PeV and the second knee around 400 PeV are proposed to be explained by a phenomenological model, the poly gonato model, connecting direct and indirect measurements. Within this approach the knee is caused by a successive cut-off of the flux for individual elements starting with protons at 4.5 PeV. The second knee is interpreted as the end of the stable nuclei of the periodic table. To check some key features of this model calculations of the cosmic ray energy spectrum and the propagation path length at energies from 10^14 to 10^19 eV have been performed within the framework of a combined approach based on the diffusion model of cosmic rays and a direct simulation of charged-particle trajectories in the Galaxy.

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