Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, Grand Unified Theories, and the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background

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1996-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9604093v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 latex pages, 3 postscript figures included, uses revtex.sty and psfig.sty. Considerably revised version, uses improved QCD f

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We explore scenarios where the highest energy cosmic rays (HECR) are produced by new particle physics near the grand unification scale. Using detailed numerical simulations of extragalactic cosmic and gamma-ray propagation, we show the existence of a significant parameter space for which such scenarios are consistent with all observational constraints. An average fraction of about 10% gamma-rays in the total cosmic ray flux around 10 EeV [10**(19) eV] would imply both a non-acceleration origin of HECR and a large scale extragalactic magnetic field smaller than about 10**(-11) G. Proposed observatories for ultra-high energy cosmic rays should be able to test for this signature.

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