Comprehensive Explanation of Cosmic-Ray "Anomalies": Quark Matter Formation by Heavy Nuclear Primaries
- 15 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (11) , 771-773
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.771
Abstract
It is proposed that the 100-TeV threshold for the appearance of anomalies in cosmic-ray interactions is associated with the critical energy of about 60 GeV/nucleon center-of-mass energy for phase transition to quark matter in nucleus-nucleus interactions. This proposal implies that the high-energy primary spectrum contains a significant heavy nuclear component (e.g., Fe).Keywords
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