On a Possible Role of the Long-Flying Component in the Seeming Absence of the GZK Cutoff

Yakovlev V. I.

In the paper the survey of a set of experimental data obtained at four various arrays, which indicate appearance of different types of irregularities and anomalies in energy characteristics of cosmic rays of very high energies, is done. A possibility of explaining these peculiarities due to influence of long-flying component of cosmic rays, evidences of its existence were obtained at Tien-Shan calorimeter, is discussed. The role of this long-flying component in the interpretation of seeming absence of cosmic-ray energy spectrum cutoff because of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin effect is analyzed.

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