Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from the Local Void

TL;DR

The paper suggests that some ultra high energy cosmic rays originating from the local void are likely light magnetic monopoles, with their abundance above 10^20 eV estimable from full sky data.

Contribution

It proposes a novel interpretation of cosmic rays as magnetic monopoles and discusses how their fraction can be determined from full sky observations.

Findings

Cosmic rays from the local void may be magnetic monopoles.

The fraction of monopoles above 10^20 eV can be inferred from full sky data.

Light magnetic monopoles could explain certain cosmic ray observations.

Abstract

Ultra high energy cosmic rays have been see coming from the direction of the local cosmic void. We use this fact to argue that at least some of these these cosmic rays are relatively light magnetic monopoles and that their relative fraction above 1020 eV can be found from full sky observations.