Ultra-high energy cosmic rays without GZK cutoff

Details Ultra-high energy cosmic rays without GZK cutoff Ultra-high energy cosmic rays without GZK cutoff

1997-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9708217v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.79:4302-4305,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Revtex, 5 pages, 1 ps-figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4302

We study the decays of ultraheavy (m_X \geq 10^{13}GeV) and quasistable (lifetime \tau_X much larger than the age of the Universe t_0) particles as the source of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHE CR). These particles are assumed to constitute a tiny fraction \xi_X of CDM in the Universe, with \xi_X being the same in the halo of our Galaxy and in the intergalactic space. The elementary-particle and cosmological scenarios for these particles are briefly outlined. The UHE CR fluxes produced at the decays of X- particles are calculated. The dominant contribution is given by fluxes of photons and nucleons from the halo of our Galaxy and thus they do not exibit the GZK cutoff. The extragalactic components of UHE CR are suppressed by the smaller extragalactic density of X-particles and hence the cascade limit is relaxed. We discuss the spectrum of produced Extensive Air Showers (EAS) and a signal from Virgo cluster as signatures of this model.

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