Cygnus X-3 events and very-high-energy photonuclear cross sections
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 33 (5) , 1247-1251
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.33.1247
Abstract
We examine the possibility that a large increase in the photon-hadron cross section at the Fermi scale (few hundred GeV in the c.m.) could account for the anomalous muon rate which seems to be associated with the radiation from Cygnus X-3. Such an explanation appears to be marginal but not perhaps entirely excluded. We point out that if this is indeed the case, then tests are possible with present colliding-ring machines.Keywords
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