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Context: As more and more data are collected by cosmic ray experiments such as the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array (TA), the search for the sources of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) continues. Already we have some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Laurentiu I. Caramete , Oana Tascau , Peter L. Biermann , Todor Stanev

Recent precision measurements of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) arrival directions, spectrum and parameters related to the mass of the primary particle have been done by the HiRes, Pierre Auger and Telescope Array (TA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Rita C. dos Anjos , Vitor de Souza , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Edivaldo M. Santos

In this review we discuss the important progress made in recent years towards understanding the experimental data on cosmic rays with energies $\agt 10^{19}$ eV. We begin with a brief survey of the available data, including a description of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Luis Anchordoqui , Thomas Paul , Stephen Reucroft , John Swain

The origin and composition of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Events (UHECRs) are under debate. Here we improve constraints on the source population(s) and compositions of UHECRs by accounting for UHECR deflections within existing Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Neil M. Nagar , Javier Matulich

In a recent Letter (Rimmer et al. 2014), Jupiter is presented as an efficient detector for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), through measurement by an Earth-orbiting satellite of gamma rays from UHECRs showers produced in Jupiter's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Paolo Privitera , Pavel Motloch

For the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) we developed a new approach to simulating UHECRs from an arbitrary number of sources based on Monte Carlo technique. The method consists of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-15 Klaus Dolag , Martin Erdmann , Gero Müller , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

Motivated by recent Pierre Auger result on the correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the nearby active galactic nuclei, we explore possible ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) source distributions and their effects on GZK…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-23 Chia-Chun Lu , Guey-Lin Lin

From deflections in galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields energy dependent structures in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) are expected. We propose to characterize these structures by the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-01 Martin Erdmann , Tobias Winchen

We investigate the possibility that near future observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can unveil their local source distribution, which reflects the observed local structures if their origins are astrophysical objects. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

The sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are still unknown, but assuming standard physics, they are expected to lie within a few hundred megaparsecs from us. Indeed, over cosmological distances cosmic rays lose energy to interactions…

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are the most energetic of any subatomic particles ever observed in nature. The quest for their mysterious origin is currently a major scientific challenge. Here we explore the possibility that these particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-09 Reda Attallah , Dallel Bouchachi

We study the production of cosmogenic neutrinos and photons during the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). For a wide range of models in cosmological evolution of source luminosity, composition and maximum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Guillaume Decerprit , Denis Allard

Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) provide a natural source of particles accelerated to energies beyond those that can be attained in the laboratory. UHECRs have been observed with energies exceeding $10^{20}$ eV, which is equivalent to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-03 William Hanlon , Rasha Abbasi

Cosmic rays are the most outstanding example of accelerated particles. They are about 1\% of the total mass of the Universe, so that cosmic rays would represent by far the most important energy transformation process of the Universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

Observations of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) do not uniquely determine both the injection spectrum and the evolution model for UHECR sources - primarily because interactions during propagation obscure the early Universe from direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 David Seckel , Todor Stanev

The status of measurements of the arrival directions, mass composition and energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 3 x 10^18 eV (3 EeV) is reviewed using reports presented at the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference held in Pune, India, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A A Watson

We consider the astrophysical implications of the diffusion equation solution for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the expanding universe, obtained in paper I (V.Berezinsky & A.Gazizov, ApJ 643 (2006) 8). The UHECR spectra are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 V. Berezinsky , A. Z. Gazizov

A brief history of the development of surface detectors for the study of the high-energy cosmic rays is presented. The paper is based on an invited talk given at UHECR2022 held in LAquila, October 2022. In a complementary talk, P Sokolsky…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 A. A. Watson

One of the models recently proposed to explain the origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays assumes that these particles may be accelerated by the electromotive force around presently inactive quasar remnants. We study predictions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Isola , G. Sigl , G. Bertone

The determination of the primary energy and mass of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECR) generating extensive air-showers in the Earth's atmosphere, relies on the detailed modeling of hadronic multiparticle production at center-of-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 David d'Enterria , Ralph Engel , Tanguy Pierog , Sergey Ostapchenko , Klaus Werner