Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: their source and target properties / vorgelegt von David Wittkowski. Wuppertal, Januar 2025
Inhalt
- Vorwort
- Danksagung
- Kurzfassung
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Journey of UHECRs
- Sources
- Acceleration
- Motivation
- Second-order Fermi acceleration
- First-order Fermi acceleration
- Acceleration by unipolar inductors
- Further acceleration mechanisms
- Propagation
- Galactic magnetic field
- Extragalactic magnetic field
- Extensive air showers
- Detectors
- Analysis of UHECR observations
- Methods
- Simulation of the propagation of UHECRs and neutrinos
- Fitting procedure
- Calculation of the angular power spectrum
- Reconstructed source properties
- Dependence on the extragalactic magnetic field
- Dependence on the cosmological evolution of the sources
- Predictions for the target properties
- Summary and outlook
- Bibliography
- List of abbreviations
- List of symbols