Cosmic-ray sum rules
Abstract
We introduce new sum rules allowing to determine universal properties of the unknown component of the cosmic rays; we show how they can be used to predict the positron fraction at energies not yet explored by current experiments, and to constrain specific models.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1011.0013
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvD..83l7301F
- Keywords:
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- 98.70.Sa;
- 96.50.sb;
- Cosmic rays;
- Composition energy spectra and interactions;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- RevTeX, 4 pages, 6 figures, two-columns. Final version to match the published version in Brief Reports section of Phys. Rev. D. We stress that this is the first paper about charge asymmetries in cosmic rays