Propagation in the Galactic magnetic field : effects on the spectrum, composition and anisotropy of Galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays / Alex Kääpä. Wuppertal, [2022]
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Theoretical Background
- Cosmic rays
- Cosmic ray detection via extensive air showers and the Pierre Auger Observatory
- The Galactic magnetic field
- Liouville's Theorem
- Simulation tool - CRPropa 3
- Investigation of Galactic propagation effects
- Deflection angle and trajectory length distribution
- Covered volume fraction
- Large-scale propagation effects
- Testing Liouville - First adiabatic invariant
- Identifying propagation effects in cosmic ray observables
- On flux modification — Observer sphere method
- On composition modification
- Arrival direction distribution
- The influence of the propagation on the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays
- Summary and conclusions