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Are ultrahigh energy cosmic rays signals of supersymmetry?

Daniel J. H. Chung, Glennys R. Farrar, Edward W. Kolb

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9707036

Abstract

We investigate the possibility that cosmic rays of energy larger than the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff are not nucleons, but a new stable, massive, hadron that appears in many extensions of the standard model. We focus primarily on the S0, a uds-gluino bound state. The range of the S0 through the cosmic background radiation is significantly longer than the range of nucleons, and therefore can originate from sources at cosmoglogical distances.

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