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Once accelerated at supernova shocks, cosmic rays have to propagate through the interstellar medium before they come to us. The interstellar medium contains matter, magnetic fields and radiation fields, all of which are targets for cosmic ray interactions. Cosmic ray protons scatter in the magnetic fields and slowly diffuse away from their sources. By the time they reach the solar system cosmic ray nuclei have no memory for the position of their sources. Observations show that cosmic rays at Earth are isotropic to a very large degree, except perhaps the cosmic rays of the highest energies. Cosmic ray nuclei interact mostly with the interstellar matter and produce all kinds of secondary particles.
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Stanev, T. (2021). Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy. In: High Energy Cosmic Rays. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71567-0_4
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