1208.2471 (D. Fargion et al.)

UHECR bending, clustering and decaying feeding gamma anisotropy    [PDF]

D. Fargion, D. D'Armiento, P. Paggi

Ultra High Cosmic Rays) made by He-like lightest nuclei might fit clustering along Cen A. Moreover He like UHECR nuclei explain Virgo absence because the light nuclei fragility and opacity above a few Mpc. We foresaw (2009) that UHECR He from Cen-A AGN being fragile should partially fragment into secondaries at tens EeV multiplet (D,He^{3},p) as the recent twin multiplet discovered ones (AUGER-ICRC-2011), at 20 EeV along Cen A UHECR clustering. We suggest that UHECR are also heavy radioactive galactic nuclei as Ni^{56}, Ni^{57} and Co^{57} widely bent (tens degree up to 100 degrees) by galactic fields. UHECR radioactivity and decay in flight at hundreds keV is boosted (by huge Lorentz factor (billion) leading to PeVs electrons and consequent synchrotron TeVs gamma offering UHECR-TeV correlated sky anisotropy. Electron and tau neutrinos secondaries at PeVs maybe the first signature of such expected radioactive secondary tail.

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