Origin of the highest energy cosmic rays

dc.contributor.author	Bhattacharjee, P
dc.date.accessioned	2008-07-29T05:13:02Z
dc.date.available	2008-07-29T05:13:02Z
dc.date.issued	1996-10
dc.identifier.citation	Current Science, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 532 - 541	en
dc.identifier.issn	0011-3861
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/2940
dc.description.abstract	After briefly recalling the history of discovery of cosmic rays, the present statns of the subject is discussed. Cosmic-ray particles with energy exceeding 1020 eV have been detected. The origin of cosmic rays remains an unsolved problem in physics and astrophysics. The nature of the source(s) as well as the physical mechanism(s) responsible for endowing the cosmic-ray particles with extremely high energies are not known with certainty. We discuss some recent ideas in this context with special emphasis on the problem of origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Indian Academy of Sciences	en
dc.subject	Cosmic rays	en
dc.subject	Cosmology	en
dc.title	Origin of the highest energy cosmic rays	en
dc.type	Article	en