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The highest energy cosmic rays from superheavy dark matter particles
Published 28 Jan 2025 in hep-ph and astro-ph.HE | (2501.17321v1)
Abstract: It is commonly accepted that high energy cosmic rays up to $10{19}$ eV can be produced in catastrophic astrophysical processes. However the source of a few observed events with higher energies remains mysterious. We propose that they may originate from decay or annihilation of ultra heavy particles of dark matter. Such particles naturally appear in some models of modified gravity related to Starobinsky inflation.
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