History 1785 Charles Coulomb, 1900 Elster and Geitel Charged body in air becomes discharged – there are ions in the atmosphere 1912 Victor Hess Discovery.

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History 1785 Charles Coulomb, 1900 Elster and Geitel Charged body in air becomes discharged – there are ions in the atmosphere 1912 Victor Hess Discovery of “Cosmic Radiation” in 5350m balloon flight, 1936 Nobel Prize 1902 Rutherford, McLennan, Burton: air is traversed by extremely penetrating radiation (  rays excluded later) 1933 Sir Arthur Compton Radiation intensity depends on magnetic latitude 1933 Anderson Discovery of the positron in CRs – shared 1936 Nobel Prize with Hess 1938 Pierre Auger and Roland Maze Rays in detectors separated by 20 m (later 200m) arrive simultaneously 1985 Sekido and Elliot Open question today: where do they come from ? 1937 Street and Stevenson Discovery of the muon in CRs (207 times heavier than electron) First correct explanation: very energetic ions impinging on top of atmosphere

Victor Hess, return from his decisive flight 1912 (reached 5350 m !) radiation increase > 2500m

Satellite observations of primaries Primaries: energetic ions of all stable isotopes: 85% protons, 12%  particles Similar to solar elemental abundance distribution but differences due to spallation during travel through space (smoothed pattern) Major source of 6 Li, 9 Be, 10 B in the Universe (some 7 Li, 11 B) Cosmic Ray p or  C,N, or O (He in early universe) Li, Be, or B

NSCL Experiment for Li, Be, and B production by  +  collisions Mercer et al. PRC 63 (2000) MeV Measure cross section: how many nuclei are made per incident  particle Identify and count Li,Be,B particles

Reminder: Physics Particle Zoo Q +2/3upcharmtop -1/3downstrangebottom Leptons: electronmuontauon +1e+e+ ++ ++ e-e- -- -- Quarks: Force carriers (bosons) Strong: g (8), Weak : Z 0,W +,W -, Electromagnetic:  proton = uud neutron = ddu Nuclei = combinations of protons, neutrons, and electrons Ordinary matter  + = ud  - = du Baryons: 3 quarks Meson: quark + antiquark  0 = uu + dd Pions: 26 ns lifetime – decay into  + and  26 ns lifetime – decay into  - and  1e-17 s lifetime – decay into 

Cosmic Ray (Ion, for example proton) Atmospheric Nucleus oo --   ee ee  ee Electromagnetic Shower oo --  (mainly  -rays)   (~4 GeV, ~150/s/cm 2 )  Hadronic Shower (on earth mainly muons and neutrinos) (about 50 secondaries after first collision) Ground based observations Space Earth’s atmosphere Plus some: Neutrons 14 C (1965 Libby)

Cosmic ray muons on earth Lifetime: 2.2  s – then decay into electron and neutrino Travel time from production in atmosphere (~15 km): ~50  s why do we see them ? Average energy: ~4 GeV (remember: 1 eV = 1.6e-19 J) Typical intensity: 150 per square meter and second Modulation of intensity with sun activity and atmospheric pressure ~0.1%

Ground based observations Advantage: Can build larger detectors can therefore see rarer cosmic rays Disadvantage: Difficult to learn about primary Observation methods: 1) Particle detectors on earth surface Large area arrays to detect all particles in shower 2) Use Air as detector (Nitrogen fluorescence  UV light) Observe fluorescence with telescopes Particles detectable across ~6 km Intensity drops by factor of 10 ~500m away from core

Particle detector arrays Largest so far: AGASA (Japan) 111 scintillation detectors over 100 km 2 Other example: Casa Mia, Utah:

Air Scintillation detector 1981 – 1992: Fly’s Eye, Utah : HiRes, same site 2 detector systems for stereo view 42 and 22 mirrors a 2m diameter each mirror reflects light into 256 photomultipliers see’s showers up to km height

Fly’s eye

Fly’s Eye

Fly’s eye principle

Pierre Auger Project Combination of both techniques Site: Argentina + ?. Construction started, 18 nations involved Largest detector ever: 3000 km 2, 1600 detectors 40 out of 1600 particle detectors setup (30 run) 2 out of 26 fluorescence telescopes run

Other planned next generation observatories OWL (NASA) (Orbiting Wide Angle Light Collectors) Idea: observe fluorescence from space to use larger detector volume EUSO (ESA for ISS) (Extreme Universe Space Observatory )

Energies of primary cosmic rays ~E -2.7 ~E -3.0 ~E -2.7 Observable by satellite Man made accelerators ~E -3.3 Lower energies do not reach earth (but might get collected) 40 events > 4e19 eV 7 events > 1e20 eV Record: October 15, 1991 Fly’s Eye: 3e20 eV UHECR’s:

Origin of cosmic rays with E < eV Direction cannot be determined because of deflection in galactic magnetic field Galactic magnetic field M83 spiral galaxy

Precollapse structure of massive star Iron core collapses and triggers supernova explosion

Supernova 1987A by Hubble Space Telescope Jan 1997

Supernova 1987A seen by Chandra X-ray observatory, 2000 Shock wave hits inner ring of material and creates intense X-ray radiation

Cosmic ray acceleration in supernova shockfronts No direct evidence but model works up to eV: acceleration up to eV in one explosion, eV multiple remnants correct spectral index, knee can be explained by leakage of light particles out of Galaxy (but: hint of index discrepancy for H,He ???) some evidence that acceleration takes place from radio and X-ray observations explains galactic origin that is observed (less cosmic rays in SMC)

Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) E > 5 x eV Record event: 3 x eV 1991 with Fly’s eye About 14 events with E > known Spectrum seems to continue – limited by event rate, no energy cutoff Good news: sufficiently energetic so that source direction can be reconstructed (true ?) Isotropic, not correlated with mass of galaxy or local super cluster

The Mystery Isotropy implies UHECR’s come from very far away But – UHECR’s cannot come from far away because collisions with the cosmic microwave background radiation would slow down or destroy them (most should come from closer than 20 MPc or so – otherwise cutoff at eV Other problem: we don’t know of any place in the cosmos that could accelerate particles to such energies (means: no working model) Speculations include: Colliding Galaxies Rapidly spinning giant black holes Highly magnetized, spinning neutron stars New, unknown particles that do not interact with cosmic microwave background Related to gamma ray bursts ?

Possible Solutions to the Puzzle AGASA Data HIRES Data 1. Maybe the non-observation of the GZK cutoff is an artefact ? 2. Maybe intergalactic magnetic fields as high as ~micro Gauss cutoff seen ? then even UHECR from nearby galaxies would appear isotropic problem with systematic errors in energy determination ?