Threshold meson production and cosmic ray transport
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Threshold meson production and cosmic ray transport
An interesting accident of nature is that the peak of the cosmic ray spectrum, for both protons and heavier nuclei, occurs near the pion production threshold. The Boltzmann transport equation contains a term which is the cosmic ray flux multiplied by the cross section. Therefore when considering pion and kaon production from proton-proton reactions, small cross sections at low energy can be as ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0954-3899,1361-6471
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/34/1/007