Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-10-06
Phys.Lett. B549 (2002) 267-272
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 2 figs, LaTex
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02938-6
The flux of cosmic rays beyond the GZK cutoff ($\sim 10^{20}$ eV) may be explained through their production by ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos, annihilating on the relic neutrino background, in the vicinity of our galaxy. This process is mediated through the production of a $Z$ boson at resonance, and is generally known as the $Z$-Burst mechanism. We show that a similar mechanism can also contribute to the super-GZK spectrum at even higher, ultra-GZK energies, where the particles produced at resonance are the Kaluza-Klein gravitons of weak scale mass and coupling from the Randall-Sundrum (RS) hierarchy model of localized gravity model. We call this mechanism Gravi-Burst. We discuss the parameter space of relevance to Gravi-Bursts, and comment on the possibility of its contribution to the present and future super-GZK cosmic ray data and place bounds on the RS model parameters. Under certain assumptions about the energy spectrum of the primary neutrinos we find that cosmic ray data could be potentially as powerful as the LHC in probing the RS model.
Davoudiasl Hooman
Hewett JoAnne L.
Rizzo Thomas G.
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