Astroparticle Theory: Some New Insights into High Energy Cosmic Rays
arXiv:astro-ph/0310367 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X04019044
Abstract
Some new developments obtained in the last few years concerning the propagation of high energy cosmic rays are discussed. In particular, it is shown how the inclusion of drift effects in the transport diffusion equations leads naturally to an explanation for the knee, for the second knee and for the observed behavior of the composition and anisotropies between the knee and the ankle. It is shown that the trend towards a heavier composition above the knee has significant impact on the predicted neutrino fluxes above eV. The effects of magnetic lensing on the cosmic rays with energies above the ankle are also discussed, analyzing the main features of the different regimes that appear between the diffusive behavior that takes place at lower energies and the regime of small deflections present at the highest ones.
10 pp. Plenary talk at the International Lepton-Photon Conference, Fermilab, August 11-16 2003
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