Cascade processes in the surface layers of pulsars |
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| Authors: | I L Rozental V V Usov |
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| Institution: | (1) Space Research Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R. |
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| Abstract: | The influence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk effect on the development of a shower generated by ultrarelativistic particles bombarding the surface of a pulsar is discussed. Because of this effect, the path length of the shower increases while low-energy photon generation is strongly suppressed. In view of this, the mechanism of pair production suggested by Cheng, Ruderman, and Jones for the pulsar magnetosphere, may be essential only for pulsars whose magnetic field intensity at the surface lies in a relatively narrow range of aroundB  1012 G. |
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