• 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
  • To page
    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