THE INFLUENCE OF KLEIN–NISHINA STEPS ON THE SPATIAL DIFFUSION OF GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY ELECTRONS
THE INFLUENCE OF KLEIN–NISHINA STEPS ON THE SPATIAL DIFFUSION OF GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY ELECTRONS
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克莱因-仁科台阶对银河宇宙线电子空间扩散的影响
DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/751/1/71
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
R. Schlickeiser
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作者:
P. Blies;R. Schlickeiser
The full Klein–Nishina cross section for the inverse Compton scattering interactions of electrons implies a significant reduction of the electron energy loss rate compared to the Thomson limit when the electron energy exceeds the critical Klein–Nishina energy EK = 0.27m2ec4/(kBT), where T denotes the temperature of the photon graybody distribution. We investigate the influence of the Klein–Nishina reduction on the solution of the steady-state spatial diffusion transport equation for relativistic electrons. The modified electron spectrum at energies below 104 GeV, where only the Klein–Nishina modifications from interstellar optical target photons are relevant, are derived in terms of the Green's function solution for one-, two-, and three-dimensional spatial diffusion. The modifications to the solutions of the one- and three-dimensional diffusion equations are calculated for a single point source of monoenergetic electrons. It is shown that significant enhancements in the local electron intensity occur at electron energies greater than the critical Klein–Nishina energy EK, and that the cosmic-ray electron anisotropy at the solar system resulting from a single steady point source exhibits a sharp drop near EK. These Klein–Nishina enhancements are potentially interesting for determining the contribution of point sources such as dark matter sources and/or electromagnetic particle accelerators (pulsars and micro-quasars) to the local electron intensity and the local positron fraction.
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8.6
作者:
F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian;U. Barres de Almeida;A. R. Bazer-Bachi;Y. Becherini;B. Behera;W. Benbow-W.-Ben
通讯作者:
F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian;U. Barres de Almeida;A. R. Bazer-Bachi;Y. Becherini;B. Behera;W. Benbow-W.-Ben