Galactic anisotropy as signature of “top-down” mechanisms of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 68 (2) , 107-111
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567830
Abstract
We show that “top-down” mechanisms of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays which involve heavy relic particle-like objects predict a Galactic anisotropy of the highest-energy cosmic rays at the level of minimKeywords
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