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Reconciling the light component and all-particle cosmicray energy spectra at the knee

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The knee phenomenon of the cosmic ray spectrum, which plays an important role in studying the acceleration mechanism of cosmic rays, is still an unsolved mystery. We try to reconcile the knee spectra measured by ARGO-YBJ and Tibet-III. A simple broken power-law model fails to explain the experimental data. Therefore a modified broken power-law model with non-linear acceleration effects is adopted, which can describe the sharp knee structure. This model predicts that heavy elements dominate at the knee.
- energy spectrum,
- knee,
- composition

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ZHAO Yi, JIA Huan-Yu and ZHU Feng-Rong. Reconciling the light component and all-particle cosmicray energy spectra at the knee[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2015, 39(12): 125001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/12/125001

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