Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the galactic centre

Galactic cosmic rays reach energies of at least a few Peta-electronvolts (1 PeV =$10^\mathbf{15}$ electron volts). This implies our Galaxy contains PeV accelerators (PeVatrons), but all proposed models of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators encounter non-trivial difficulties at exactly these energies....

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Hauptverfasser: Abramowski, Attila (VerfasserIn) , Becherini, Yvonne (VerfasserIn) , Cologna, Gabriele (VerfasserIn) , Jankowsky, Felix (VerfasserIn) , Mohamed, Mahmoud (VerfasserIn) , Pühlhofer, Gerd (VerfasserIn) , Quirrenbach, Andreas (VerfasserIn) , Schwemmer, Stephanie (VerfasserIn) , Wagner, Stefan (VerfasserIn) , Zacharias, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: H.E.S.S. Collaboration (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal) Kapitel/Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Arxiv

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