Reconciling the light component and all-particle cosmic ray energy spectra at the knee

Autor:	Zhao, Yi, Jia, Huan-Yu, Zhu, Feng-Rong
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Zdroj:	Chinese Physics C Vol. 39, No. 12 (2015) 125001
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1674-1137/39/12/125001
Popis:	The knee phenomenon of the cosmic ray spectrum, which plays an important role in studying the acceleration mechanism of cosmic rays, is still an unsolved mystery. We try to reconcile the knee spectra measured by ARGO-YBJ and Tibet-III. A simple broken power-law model fails to explain the experimental data. Therefore a modified broken power-law model with non-linear acceleration effects is adopted, which can describe the sharp knee structure. This model predicts that heavy elements dominate at the knee. Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00352 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv