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The detection of a $\simeq220$~PeV muon neutrino event by the KM3NeT telescope offers an unprecedented opportunity to probe the Universe at extreme energies. A photopion interaction origin of the neutrino requires a parent cosmic-ray energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Saikat Das , Bing Zhang , Soebur Razzaque , Siyao Xu

The diffuse neutrino flux measured in IceCube is comparable with the ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) flux, which has led to the concept of a unified origin of high-energy neutrino and UHECR backgrounds. We construct a generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase

We consider the prospects for future ultrahigh energy cosmic ray and neutrino observations to constrain the evolution of sources producing a proton flux above 10 EeV (1 EeV = 10^18 eV). We find that strong constraints on the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-16 Marco Stein Muzio , M. Unger , Stephanie Wissel

We show that a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, though optimized for TeV to PeV energy, is sensitive to the neutrinos associated with super-EeV sources. These include super-heavy relics, neutrinos associated with the Greisen cutoff,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

We discuss the possibility that the PeV neutrinos recently observed by IceCube are produced by the interactions of extragalactic cosmic rays during their propagation through the radiation backgrounds. We show that the fluxes resulting from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Esteban Roulet , Guenter Sigl , Arjen van Vliet , Silvia Mollerach

We discuss the relation between the highest energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and UHE neutrinos. The neutrinos produced in the sources of optically thin astrophysical sources have been linked to the UHECR emissivity of the Universe. The fluxes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todor Stanev

The unified models of astrophysical sources to account for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high-energy cosmic neutrinos with energies greater than 100 TeV have been discussed. Based on model-independent arguments, we argue that if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase

Transrelativistic supernovae (SNe), which are likely driven by central engines via jets or winds, have been among candidate sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We investigate acceleration and survival of UHECR nuclei in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase

Magnetic fields are crucial in shaping the non-thermal emission of the TeV-PeV neutrinos of astrophysical origin seen by the IceCube neutrino telescope. The sources of these neutrinos are unknown, but if they harbor a strong magnetic field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Mauricio Bustamante , Irene Tamborra

Blazars are potential candidates of cosmic-ray acceleration up to ultrahigh energies ($E\gtrsim10^{18}$ eV). For an efficient cosmic-ray injection from blazars, $p\gamma$ collisions with the extragalactic background light (EBL) and cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Saikat Das , Nayantara Gupta , Soebur Razzaque

Top-down models of cosmic rays produce more neutrinos than photons and more photons than protons. In these models, we reevaluate the fluxes of neutrinos associated with the highest energy cosmic rays in light of mounting evidence that they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. Barbot , M. Drees , F. Halzen , D. Hooper

I give a brief discussion of possible sources of high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin over the energy range from $\sim 10^{12}$ eV to $\sim 10^{25}$ eV. In particular I shall review predictions of the diffuse neutrino intensity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Protheroe

Fast-spinning newborn pulsars are intriguing candidate sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The acceleration of particles with a given composition in a fraction of the extragalactic pulsar population can give a consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-09 Ke Fang , Kumiko Kotera , Kohta Murase , Angela V. Olinto

The cosmic ray spectrum has been shown to extend well beyond 10^20 eV. With nearly 20 events observed in the last 40 years, it is now established that particles are accelerated or produced in the universe with energy near 10^21 eV. In all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antoine Letessier-Selvon

We discuss recent models in which neutrinos, which are assumed to have mass in the eV range, originate the highest energy cosmic rays by interaction with the enhanced density in the galactic halo of the relic cosmic neutrino background. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Blanco-Pillado , R. A. Vázquez , E. Zas

The detection of astrophysical very high energy (VHE) neutrinos in the range of TeV-PeV energies by the IceCube observatory has opened a new season in high energy astrophysics. Energies ~PeV imply that the neutrinos are originated from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-08 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Interactions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with background photons set a limit to the distance cosmic rays reaching us above a certain energy can originate from, making measurements of their fluxes insensitive to properties of sources at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-09 Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Sergio Petrera , Francesco Salamida

In the paper Int.J.Mod.Phys.E 23 (2014) 1450004, the potential of short-baseline experiments was proposed to measure the mass (and parameters of Lorentz-violating effects) of the muon neutrino, where a roughly estimated upper bound of 420…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-03 A. M. Attia , I. G. Márián , B. Ujvári

Simple arguments concerning power and acceleration efficiency show that ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRS) with energies >~ 10^{19} eV could originate from GRBs. Neutrons formed through photo-pion production processes in GRB blast waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. D. Dermer

Current data on ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays suggest they are predominantly made of heavy nuclei. This indicates that the flux of neutrinos produced from proton collisions on the cosmic microwave background is small and hard to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Gustavo F. S. Alves , Matheus Hostert , Maxim Pospelov