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The energy spectra of ultra-high energy cosmic rays reported by the AGASA, Fly’s Eye, Haverah Park, HiRes, and Yakutsk experiments are all shown to be in agreement with each other for energies below 1020 eV (after small adjustments, within the known uncertainties, of the absolute energy scales). The...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.390.8864 2023-05-15T18:45:22+02:00 www.elsevier.com/locate/npe Has the GZK suppression been discovered? John N. Bahcall A Eli Waxman B The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2003 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.390.8864 http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Preprints/GZK/paper.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.390.8864 http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Preprints/GZK/paper.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Preprints/GZK/paper.pdf text 2003 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T02:14:56Z The energy spectra of ultra-high energy cosmic rays reported by the AGASA, Fly’s Eye, Haverah Park, HiRes, and Yakutsk experiments are all shown to be in agreement with each other for energies below 1020 eV (after small adjustments, within the known uncertainties, of the absolute energy scales). The data from HiRes, Fly’s Eye, and Yakutsk are consistent with the expected flux suppression above 5 × 1019 eV due to interactions of cosmic rays with the cosmic microwave background, the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin (GZK) suppression, and are inconsistent with a smooth extrapolation of the observed cosmic-ray energy spectrum to energies> 5 × 1019 eV. AGASA data show an excess of events above 1020 eV, compared to the predicted GZK suppression and to the flux measured by the other experiments. © 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. 1. Text Yakutsk Unknown Yakutsk |
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The energy spectra of ultra-high energy cosmic rays reported by the AGASA, Fly’s Eye, Haverah Park, HiRes, and Yakutsk experiments are all shown to be in agreement with each other for energies below 1020 eV (after small adjustments, within the known uncertainties, of the absolute energy scales). The data from HiRes, Fly’s Eye, and Yakutsk are consistent with the expected flux suppression above 5 × 1019 eV due to interactions of cosmic rays with the cosmic microwave background, the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin (GZK) suppression, and are inconsistent with a smooth extrapolation of the observed cosmic-ray energy spectrum to energies> 5 × 1019 eV. AGASA data show an excess of events above 1020 eV, compared to the predicted GZK suppression and to the flux measured by the other experiments. © 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. 1. |
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