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Nuclear Disintegration in Magnetic Fields

Lee C. Loveridge

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0206244

Abstract

We employ the Weizsaecker-Williams method of virtual quanta to study disintegration of nuclei in magnetic field. We explore a variety of field configurations and conclude that for the energy range of interest for applications to cosmic rays (1018-1021 eV) such disintegrations are not a significant source of energy or flux loss for any realistic acceleration mechanism.

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