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Unmasking the tail of the cosmic ray spectrum

L. A. Anchordoqui, M. T. Dova, T. P. McCauley, S. Reucroft, J. D. Swain

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9912081

Abstract

A re-examination of the energy cosmic ray spectrum above 1020 eV is presented. The overall data-base provides evidence, albeit still statistically limited, that non-nucleon primaries could be present at the end of the spectrum. In particular, the possible appearance of superheavy nuclei (seldom discussed in the literature) is analysed in detail.

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