Title of article
Composition and energy spectra of cosmic-ray primaries in the energy range 10^13-10^15 eV/particle observed by Japanese-Russian joint balloon experiment RUNJOB Collaboration
Author/Authors
KOBAYASHI، T. نويسنده , , Ichimura، Dwayne M. نويسنده , , Apanasenko، A.V. نويسنده , , Sukhadolskaya، V.A. نويسنده , , Derbina، V.A. نويسنده , , Fujii، M. نويسنده , , Galkine، V.I. نويسنده , , Getsov، G.G. نويسنده , , Hareyama، M. نويسنده , , Ito، S. نويسنده , , Kamioka، E. نويسنده , , Kitami، T. نويسنده , , Kolesnikov، V.D. نويسنده , , Kopenkin، V. نويسنده , , Kotunova، N.M. نويسنده , , Kuramata، S. نويسنده , , Kuriyama، Y. نويسنده , , Lapshin، V.I. نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
Pages
-12
From page
13
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0
Abstract
We constrain mass, lifetime and contribution of a very slowly decaying ultra heavy dark matter (UHDM) by simulating the cosmological evolution of its remnants. Most of interactions which participate in energy dissipation are included in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Cross-sections are calculated either analytically or by using PYTHIA Monte Carlo program. This paper describes in detail our simulation. To show the importance of the distribution of matter in constraining WIMPZILLA [D. Chung et al.. hep-ph/9810361] characteristics, we consider two extreme cases: a homogeneous universe, and a local halo with uniform distribution. In a homogeneous universe, the decay of the UHDM with a mass ~10^15 GeV and a lifetime as short as a few times of the age of the universe, cannot explain the flux of the observed ultra high energy cosmic rays even if the whole dark matter (DM) is composed of a decaying UHDM. If our simple halo model is reliable, in a uniform clump with an over-density of ^200 extended to ~100 kpc, the lifetime can be ~10-100T0, again assuming that DM is a decaying UHDM. We also compare our calculation with observed gamma-rays at E-10^11 eV by EGRET and CASA-MIA limit at E ~ 10^15 eV. They are compatible with a UHDM with relatively short lifetime.
Keywords
VIRGO , calibration , Gravitational wave detector
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2001
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
30805
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