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Tiny Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) effects, potentially arising from quantum gravity-induced spacetime structures, may also manifest in the proton sector, offering a plausible pathway to test Planck-scale physics through high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Guo-Li Liu , Xinbo Su , Fei Wang

We simulate the propagation of cosmic rays at ultra-high energies, $\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV, in models of extragalactic magnetic fields in constrained simulations of the local Universe. We use constrained initial conditions with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Jenny G. Sorce , Stefan Gottlöber

We extend existing work on the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in extragalactic magnetic fields to a possible component of heavy nuclei, taking into account photodisintegration, pion production, and creation of e+e- pairs. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gianfranco Bertone , Claudia Isola , Martin Lemoine , Guenter Sigl

We propose that a hierarchical shock model$\unicode{x2014}$including supernova remnant shocks, galactic wind termination shocks, and accretion shocks around cosmic filaments and galaxy clusters$\unicode{x2014}$can naturally explain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Paul Simeon , Noémie Globus , Kirk S. S. Barrow , Roger Blandford

The photomeson production in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) accelerators such as gamma-ray bursts and active galaxies may lead to ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray emission. We show that generation of UHE pairs in magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-10 Kohta Murase

We present the results of a study that simulates trajectories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from Centaurus A to Earth, for particle rigidities from $E/Z = 2$ EV to 100 EV, i.e., covering the possibility of primary particles as heavy as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-21 Azadeh Keivani , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Sutherland

It is likely that ultra-high energy cosmic rays contain a significant component of heavy or intermediate mass nuclei. The propagation of ultra-high energy nuclei through cosmic radiation backgrounds is more complicated than that of protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar , Andrew M. Taylor

The origin of highest energy cosmic rays (UHECR) is yet unknown. In order to understand their propagation we determine the probability that an ultrahigh energy (above 5\cdot 10^{19} eV) proton created at a distance r with energy E arrives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Fodor

It is presumed that the observed cosmic rays up to about $3\times 10^{18}$ eV are of Galactic origin, the particles being the ones which are found in the composition of the stellar winds of stars that explode as supernova into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Sabin Popescu

We investigate signatures that would be produced in the spectrum and sky distribution of UHECR by a population of the Galactic sources of high-energy protons in the energy range around 1~EeV, i.e., around the diffusive-to-ballistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 P. G. Tinyakov , F. R. Urban , D. Ivanov , G. B. Thomson , A. H. Tirone

The standard assumption about the influence of the turbulent intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) on the images of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) sources is that the latter are formed in a random walk mode in the deflection angle. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 K. Dolgikh , A. Korochkin , G. Rubtsov , D. Semikoz , I. Tkachev

Evidence for a large-scale supergalactic cosmic ray multiplet (arrival directions correlated with energy) structure is reported for ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) energies above 10$^{19}$ eV using seven years of data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-03 Telescope Array Collaboration , R. U. Abbasi , M. Abe , T. Abu-Zayyad , M. Allen , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , S. A. Blake , R. Cady , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , A. di Matteo , T. Fujii , K. Fujisue , K. Fujita , R. Fujiwara , M. Fukushima , G. Furlich , W. Hanlon , M. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , R. Higuchi , K. Honda , D. Ikeda , T. Inadomi , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , H. Ito , D. Ivanov , H. Iwakura , H. M. Jeong , S. Jeong , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , K. Kasahara , S. Kasami , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , K. Kawata , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , M. H. Kim , S. W. Kim , S. Kishigami , V. Kuzmin , M. Kuznetsov , Y. J. Kwon , K. H. Lee , B. Lubsandorzhiev , J. P. Lundquist , K. Machida , H. Matsumiya , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , R. Mayta , M. Minamino , K. Mukai , I. Myers , S. Nagataki , K. Nakai , R. Nakamura , T. Nakamura , Y. Nakamura , T. Nonaka , H. Oda , S. Ogio , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , Y. Oku , T. Okuda , Y. Omura , M. Ono , R. Onogi , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , M. S. Pshirkov , J. Remington , D. C. Rodriguez , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , H. Sagawa , R. Sahara , Y. Saito , N. Sakaki , T. Sako , N. Sakurai , K. Sano , T. Seki , K. Sekino , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , T. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , H. S. Shin , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , N. Sone , B. T. Stokes , T. A. Stroman , T. Suzawa , Y. Takagi , Y. Takahashi , M. Takamura , R. Takeishi , A. Taketa , M. Takita , Y. Tameda , H. Tanaka , K. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , Y. Tanoue , S. B. Thomas , G. B. Thomson , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , H. Tokuno , T. Tomida , S. Troitsky , Y. Tsunesada , Y. Uchihori , S. Udo , T. Uehama , F. Urban , T. Wong , K. Yada , M. Yamamoto , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , K. Yashiro , M. Yosei , Y. Zhezher , Z. Zundel

Relativistic outflows carrying large scale magnetic fields have large inductive potential and may accelerate protons to ultra high energies. We discuss a novel scheme of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) acceleration due to drifts in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 Maxim Lyutikov , Rachid Ouyed

Anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) produced by powerful sources is numerically evaluated. We show that, taking account of the Galactic magnetic field, nondetection of significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-22 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer

We use the CRPropa code to simulate the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (with energy $\geq 10^{18} \rm eV$ and pure proton composition) through extragalactic magnetic fields that have been simulated with the cosmological ENZO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-01 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Guenter Sigl , Andrej Dundovic

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) hit the Earth's atmosphere with energies exceeding $10^{18}$ eV. This is the same energy as carried by a tennis ball moving at 100 km/h, but concentrated on a sub-atomic particle. UHECRs are so rare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-19 Federico Fraschetti

The recent discoveries of several reliable events of high energy cosmic rays at an energy above 10^20 eV raise questions about their path through the nearby universe. The two analyses of the Haverah Park data set and the Akeno data set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Peter L. Biermann , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu

It has recently been proposed that ultrahigh energy ($\gtrsim 10^{19}$ eV) cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated by the blast waves associated with GRBs. We calculate the observed synchrotron radiation spectrum from protons and energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are considered as one of the most appropriate sources of cosmic rays with energy exceeding $\sim 10^{18}$ eV. Virgo A (M87 or NGC 4486) is the second closest to the Milky Way active galaxy. According to existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-05 Oleh Kobzar , Olexandr Sushchov , Bohdan Hnatyk , Volodymyr Marchenko

We present a detailed analytical study of the propagation of ultra high energy (UHE) particles in extragalactic magnetic fields. The crucial parameter which affects the diffuse spectrum is the separation between sources. In the case of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Aloisio , V. Berezinsky