Cosmic ray ensembles from ultra-high energy photons propagating in the galactic and intergalactic space
Authors:
- Niraj Dhital,
- Oleksandr Sushchov,
- Jan Pękala,
- Kevin Almeida Cheminant,
- Dariusz Góra,
- Piotr Homola,
- Alan R. Duffy,
- Paweł Jagoda,
- Robert Kaminski,
- Marcin Kaszteland,
- Peter Kovacs,
- Vahab Nazari,
- Michał Niedźwiecki,
- Katarzyna Smelcerz,
- Karel Smolek,
- Krzysztof Rzecki,
- Jilberto Zamora-Saa,
- Zoltán Zimborás
Abstract
Propagation of ultra-high energy photons in the galactic and intergalactic space gives rise to cascades comprising thousands of photons. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the development of such cascades in the solar magnetosphere, and find that the photons in the cascades are distributed over hundreds of kilometers as they arrive at the top of the Earth’s atmosphere. We also perform similar study for cascades starting as far as 10 Mpc away from us using relevant magnetic field models. A few photons correlated in time are expected to arrive at the Earth from the latter type of cascade. We present our simulation results and discuss the prospects for detection of these cascades with the Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory.
- Record ID
- CUT29141ee907ed45dc912f431c649e0d92
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- PoS - Proceedings of Science, ISSN 1824-8039, Irregular
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 358
- Pages
- [1-8]
- Article number
- PoS(ICRC2019)239
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - [7-8]; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 14; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Streszcz. ang.; Data udostępnienia on-line - 2019-07-22; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 358
- Substantive notes
- Autorzy wg informacji na publikacji: Full author list: http://credo.science/publications, bezpośredni dostęp do pliku: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.04600.pdf
- Conference
- 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), 2019, 24-07-2019 - 01-08-2019, Madison, Stany Zjednoczone
- Keywords in English
- cosmic ray ensembles, Monte Carlo simulations
- URL
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- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT29141ee907ed45dc912f431c649e0d92/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT29141ee907ed45dc912f431c649e0d92
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