Cosmic ray spectrum and anisotropies from the knee to the second knee
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Cosmic ray spectrum and anisotropies from the knee to the second knee
We consider the scenario in which the knee in the cosmic ray spectrum is due to a change in the escape mechanism of cosmic rays from the Galaxy from one dominated by transverse diffusion to one dominated by drifts. We show that this scenario explains not only the changes in spectral slope at the knee and at the second knee, but can also account for the main characteristics of the observed energ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1475-7516
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2003/05/003