Tuesday, June 4, 2013

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


Cosmic rays: Galactic knee and extragalactic ankle

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 08:33 AM PDT

A new experiment has yielded the important result that a characteristic bend in the energy spectrum of high-energy cosmic rays, also called "knee", is located at different energies for light and heavy primary particles. Astronomers have found that these cosmic radiation particles are accelerated in galaxies other than the Milky Way.

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