Galactic Anisotropy as Signature of ``Top-Down'' Mechanisms of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

Abstract

We show that ``top-down'' mechanisms of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays which involve heavy relic particle-like objects predict Galactic anisotropy of highest energy cosmic rays at the level of minimum $\sim 20$. This anisotropy is large enough to be either observed or ruled out in the next generation of experiments.

8 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX. Final version appeared in Pisma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz

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