https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510500002
Galactic cosmic rays
1 INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
2 Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN), Viale F. Crispi 6, 60100 L'Aquila, Italy
a e-mail: blasi@arcetri.astro.it
Published online: 8 December 2015
The multi-facet nature of the origin of cosmic rays is such that some of the problems currently met in our path to describing available data are due to oversimplified models of CR acceleration and transport, and others to lack of knowledge of the physical processes at work in certain conditions. On the other hand, the phenomenology of cosmic rays, as arising from better observations, is getting so rich that it makes sense to try to distinguish the problems that derive from too simple views of Nature and those that are challenging the very foundations of the existing paradigms. Here I will briefly discuss some of these issues.
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