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Acceleration of ULtra High Energy Cosmic Rays: Cosmic Zevatrons?
T. W. Jones
In this lecture I outline some of the underlying physics issues associated with accelerators plausibly capable of explaining the UHECRs up to ZeV energies. I concentrate on the con…
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Structure Shocks as a Source of Cosmic Rays in Clusters
T. W. Jones, Francesco Miniati, Dongsu Ryu +2
Shocks are a ubiquitous consequence of cosmic structure formation, and they play an essential role in heating galaxy cluster media. Virtually all of the gas in clusters has been pr…