Pionic Photons and Neutrinos from Cosmic Ray Accelerators
Abstract
Identifying the accelerators that produce the Galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays has been a priority mission of several generations of high energy gamma ray and neutrino telescopes; success has been elusive so far. Detecting the gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes associated with cosmic rays reaches a new watershed with the completion of IceCube, the first neutrino detector with sensitivity to the anticipated fluxes, and the construction of CTA, a ground-based gamma ray detector that will map and study candidate sources with unprecedented precision. In this paper, we revisit the prospects for revealing the sources of the cosmic rays by a multiwavelength approach; after reviewing the methods, we discuss supernova remnants, gamma ray bursts, active galaxies and GZK neutrinos in some detail.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.1131,
title = {Pionic Photons and Neutrinos from Cosmic Ray Accelerators},
author = {Francis Halzen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1131},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
21 pages, 6 figures - Presented at the Crakow School of Theoretical Physics, 11-19 June 2011