A study on the processes responsible for the acceleration of particles in shocks. The study: “Individual particle approach to the diffusive shock acceleration. Effect of the non-uniform flow velocity downstream of the shock” of O. Petruk (INAF-OAPA) appeared on A&A

Our planet is constantly bombarded by highly energetic particles known as ‘cosmic rays‘. The spectrum of cosmic rays up to energies of 1015 electronvolts (eV) is formed by the sources in our Galaxy, while particles with observed energies up to 1021 eV should have extra-galactic origin. The cosmic ray spectrum follows a power law, meaning that the flux of particles with a given
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