Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-09-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays is an unsolved problem. Several proposals such as Z-burst, decay of super massive matter, susy particles as a primary, neutrino as a primary in extra dimension models exist in the literature which try to address this issue. Many of these proposals solve the problem of propagation of cosmic rays over cosmological distances by introducing new physics. However these do not explain the origin of such high energy cosmic rays. The possible astrophysics sites, such as active galactic nuclei, are highly constrained. Here we determine whether these cosmic rays originated from the decay of some exotic objects, such as primordial black holes (PBHs), present in the early universe. In contrast to the usual Top Down scenario we do not assume that this exotic object necessarily has to decay in our astrophysical neighbourhood since we assume a beyond the standard model scenario, where the propagation problem is absent. We consider the standard 4-dimension PBHs as well as the brane world PBHs. We find that in both cases it is unable to produce the observed ultra high energy cosmic ray flux.
Jain Pankaj
Panda Sukanta
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