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The energy production rate & the generation spectrum of UHECRs
Boaz Katz, Ran Budnik, Eli Waxman
We derive simple analytic expressions for the flux and spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) predicted in models where the CRs are protons produced by extra-Galactic s…
Magnetic field evolution in relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks
Uri Keshet, Boaz Katz, Anatoly Spitkovsky +1
We study relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks using unprecedentedly large particle-in-cell simulations of two-dimensional pair plasma. High energy particles accelerated b…
X-ray Hotspot Flares and Implications for Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Magnetic Field amplification in Supernova Remnants
Yousaf Butt, Troy Porter, Boaz Katz +1
For more than fifty years, it has been believed that cosmic ray (CR) nuclei are accelerated to high energies in the rapidly expanding shockwaves created by powerful supernova explo…
In which shell-type SNRs should we look for gamma-rays and neutrinos from p-p collisions?
Boaz Katz, Eli Waxman
We present a simple analytic model for the various contributions to the non-thermal emission from shell type SNRs, and show that this model's results reproduce well the results of…
Cosmic rays from trans-relativistic supernovae
R. Budnik, B. Katz, A. MacFadyen +1
We derive constraints that must be satisfied by the sources of ~10^{15} to ~10^{18} eV cosmic rays, under the assumption that the sources are Galactic. We show that while these con…
Self-Similar Collisionless Shocks
Boaz Katz, Uri Keshet, Eli Waxman
Observations of gamma-ray burst afterglows suggest that the correlation length of magnetic field fluctuations downstream of relativistic non-magnetized collisionless shocks grows w…