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Cosmic-ray sum rules

Mads T. Frandsen1,*, Isabella Masina2,3,†, and Francesco Sannino3,‡

  • 1Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
  • 2Dip. di Fisica dell’Università di Ferrara and INFN Sez. di Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
  • 3CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark

  • *m.frandsen1@physics.ox.ac.uk
  • masina@fe.infn.it
  • sannino@cp3.sdu.dk

Phys. Rev. D 83, 127301 – Published 2 June, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.127301

Abstract

We introduce new sum rules allowing to determine universal properties of the unknown component of the cosmic rays; we show how they can be used to predict the positron fraction at energies not yet explored by current experiments, and to constrain specific models.

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