Magnetic Monopoles as the Highest Energy Cosmic Ray Primaries

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1995-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505134v1

Astropart.Phys. 4 (1996) 271-279

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTex, 16 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/0927-6505(95)00043-7

We suggest that the highest energy $ \gsim 10^{20} eV$ cosmic ray primaries may be relativistic magnetic monopoles. Motivations for this hypothesis are that conventional primaries are problematic, while monopoles are naturally accelerated to $E \sim 10^{20} eV$ by galactic magnetic fields. By matching the cosmic monopole production mechanism to the observed highest energy cosmic ray flux we estimate the monopole mass to be $\sim 10^{10\pm1} GeV$.

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