Planetary Produced Axionlike Particles and Gamma-Ray Flashes
Journal Article
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· AIP Conference Proceedings
- Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki (Greece)
Axion-like particles could be created in nuclear disintegrations and deexitations of natural radionuclides present in the interior of the planets. For the Earth and the other planets with a surrounding magnetosphere, axion production could result to gamma and X-ray emission, originating from axion to photon conversion in the planetary magnetic fields. The estimated planetary axion fluxes as well as the related gamma ray fluxes from Earth and the giant planets of our solar system are given along with the axion coupling to ordinary matter. A possible connection with the enigmatic Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) discovered in 1994 by CGRO/BATSE and also detected with the RHESSI satellite, is also discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 21255152
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1085; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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