Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics

Author: Kampert K.H.  

Publisher: Akademiai Kiado

ISSN: 1219-7580

Source: Acta Physica Hungarica A, Vol.14, Iss.1-4, 2001-10, pp. : 203-215

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Abstract

The study of high energy cosmic rays is a diversified .field of observational and phenomenological physics addressing questions ranging from shock acceleration of charged particles in various astrophysical objects, via transport properties through galactic and extragalactic space, to questions of dark matter, and even to those of particle physics beyond the Standard Model including processes taking place in the earliest moments of our Universe. After decades of mostly independent evolution of nuclear, particle and high energy cosmic ray physics we find ourselves entering a symbiotic era of these .elds of research. Some examples of interrelations will be given from the perspective of modern Particle –Astrophysics and new major experiments will brie if be sketched.