Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics
arXiv:astro-ph/0101331 · doi:10.1556/APH.14.2001.1-4.20
Abstract
The study of high energy cosmic rays is a diversified field of observational and phenomenological physics addressing questions ranging from shock acceleration of charged particles in various astrophysical objects, via transport properties through galactic and extragalactic space, to questions of dark matter, and even to those of particle physics beyond the Standard Model including processes taking place in the earliest moments of our Universe. After decades of mostly independent evolution of nuclear-, particle- and high energy cosmic ray physics we find ourselves entering a symbiotic era of these fields of research. Some examples of interrelations will be given from the perspective of modern Particle-Astrophysics and new major experiments will briefly be sketched.
13 pages, 7 figures; invited talk presented at the "Symposium on Fundamental Issues in Elementary Matter", Bad Honnef, Germany, 25-29 September 2000 (to appear in Acta Physica Hungarica)
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