Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Haute Énergie

• Main Authors: Pierre Billoir, Antoine Letessier-selvon A
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Medina; North Pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.257.9173; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0001427v1.pdf

In this note we argue that the galactic model chosen by E.-J. Ahn, G. Medina-Tanco, P.L. Bierman and T. Stanev in their paper discussing the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays, is alone responsible for the focusing of positive particles towards the North galactic pole. We discuss the validity...