F W Stecker 2003 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 29 R47 doi:10.1088/0954-3899/29/10/201
F W Stecker
Show affiliationsCosmic rays have been observed up to energies 108 times larger than those of the best particle accelerators. Studies of astrophysical particles (hadrons, neutrinos and photons) at their highest observed energies have implications for fundamental physics as well as astrophysics. Thus, the cosmic high energy frontier is the nexus to new particle physics. This overview discusses recent advances being made in the physics and astrophysics of cosmic rays and cosmic γ-rays at the highest observed energies as well as the related physics and astrophysics of very high energy cosmic neutrinos. These topics touch on questions of grand unification, violations of Lorentz invariance as well as Planck scale physics and quantum gravity.
95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation
12.10.Dm Unified theories and models of strong and electroweak interactions
Issue 10 (October 2003)
Received 30 July 2003, in final form 22 August 2003
Published 18 September 2003
F W Stecker 2003 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 29 R47
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