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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 1014eV\sim 10^{14} eV generated by neutron decay and reproduces the double peak structure due to photopion production at higher energies (1018\sim 10^{18} 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.

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@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}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures