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End to the Cosmic-Ray Spectrum?
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The primary cosmic-ray spectrum has been measured up to an energy of $10^{20}$ eV, and several groups have described projects under development or in mind to investigate the spectrum further, into the energy range $10^{21}-10^{22}$ eV. This note predicts that above $10^{20}$ eV the primary spectrum will steepen abruptly, and the experiments in preparation will at last observe it to have a cosmologically meaningful termination.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Greisen, K.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1966-04-25
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 748-750
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1998174391
- Cited by
- 2,975
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 7.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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