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Explaining cosmic ray antimatter with secondaries from old supernova remnants

Abstract:

Despite significant efforts over the past decade, the origin of the cosmic ray positron excess has still not been unambiguously established. A popular class of candidate sources are pulsars or pulsar wind nebulae but these cannot also account for the observed hard spectrum of cosmic ray antiprotons. We revisit the alternative possibility that the observed high-energy positrons are secondaries created by spallation in supernova remnants during the diffusive shock acceleration of the primary co...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1103/PhysRevD.104.103029

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
Oxford college:
Linacre College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-3542-858X
Publisher:
American Physical Society Publisher's website
Journal:
Physical Review D Journal website
Volume:
104
Issue:
10
Article number:
103029
Publication date:
2021-11-22
Acceptance date:
2021-09-28
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EISSN:
2470-0029
ISSN:
2470-0010
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1212213
Local pid:
pubs:1212213
Deposit date:
2022-02-08

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