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Photon-axion mixing and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from BL Lac type objects - Shining light through the Universe

Malcolm Fairbairn
(
- King's Coll. London
)
,
Timur Rashba
(
- Lindau, Max Planck Inst. and
- Troitsk, IZMIRAN
)
,
Sergey V. Troitsky
(
- Moscow, INR
)

Jan, 2009

10 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 84 (2011) 125019

e-Print:

0901.4085 [astro-ph.HE]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.125019

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Abstract: (arXiv)

Photons may convert into axion like particles and back in the magnetic field of various astrophysical objects, including active galaxies, clusters of galaxies, intergalactic space and the Milky Way. This is a potential explanation for the candidate neutral ultra-high-energy (E>10^18 eV) particles from distant BL Lac type objects which have been observed by the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment. Axions of the same mass and coupling may explain also TeV photons detected from distant blazars.

Note:

Revtex 10 pages, 6 figures. V.2: QED dispersion effects taken into account; principal results unchanged. V3: misprints and sqrt(4*pi) factors in Gauss to eV conversion corrected; conclusions unchanged

14.80.Va
98.70.Sa
magnetic field: galaxy
photon axion: mixing
cosmic radiation: UHE
cosmic radiation: particle source
neutral particle: cosmic radiation
correlation
axion: cosmic radiation
numerical calculations: Monte Carlo

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