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Constraints on secondary 10-100 EeV gamma ray flux in the minimal bottom-up model of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
In a recently proposed model the cosmic rays spectrum at energies above EeV
can be fitted with a minimal number of unknown parameters assuming that the
extragalactic cosmic rays are only protons with a power law source spectrum.
Within this minimal model, after fitting the observed HiRes spectrum with four
parameters (proton injection spectrum power law index, maximum energy, minimum
distance to sources and evolution parameter) we compute the flux of ultra-high
energy photons due to photon-pion production and e+e- pair production by
protons for several radio background models and a range of average
extragalactic magnetic fields.Comment: Contribution to the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida,
Mexico, July 2007, 4 pages, 4 figure
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