Cosmogenic Neutrinos from Ultra-High Energy Nuclei
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We calculate the flux of neutrinos generated by the propagation of ultra-high energy iron over cosmological distances and show that even if ultra-high energy cosmic rays are composed of heavy nuclei, a significant flux of high-energy neutrinos should be present throughout the universe. The resulting neutrino flux has a new peak at generated by neutron decay and reproduces the double peak structure due to photopion production at higher energies ( eV). Depending on the maximum energy and cosmological evolution of extremely high energy cosmic accelerators the generated neutrino flux can be detected by future experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0409316,
title = {Cosmogenic Neutrinos from Ultra-High Energy Nuclei},
author = {Maximo Ave and N. Busca and A. V. Olinto and A. A. Watson and T. Yamamoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0409316},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures