“…19 − 10 20 eV , including topological defects such as cosmic strings [6,7] and associated decays of heavy, relic particles [8,9], existence of neutral, stable, strongly interacting particles, such as a light gluino [10,11,12] or a monopole bound state [13,14], and violation of Lorentz invariance [15,16]. Much of this work requires that the primary particle responsible for generating these air showers is an exotic new particle which does not exist within the Standard Model.…”