On the Origin of the Cosmic Radiation
- 15 April 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 75 (8), 1169-1174
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.75.1169
Abstract
A theory of the origin of cosmic radiation is proposed according to which cosmic rays are originated and accelerated primarily in the interstellar space of the galaxy by collisions against moving magmetic fields. One of the features of the theory is that it yields naturally an inverse power law for the spectral distribution of the cosmic rays. The chief difficulty is that it fails to explain in a straight-forward way the heavy nuclei observed in the primary radiation.Keywords
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