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Observational constraints on cosmic-ray escape from UHE accelerators

Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) accelerated in specific astrophysical environments have been shown to shape the energy production rate of nuclei differently from that of the secondary neutrons escaping from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Quentin Luce , Sullivan Marafico , Jonathan Biteau , Antonio Condorelli , Olivier Deligny

Signals of HE atmospheric muon decay in flight around the Sun's albedo versus astrophysical muon and tau neutrino traces in the Moon's shadow

The Sun albedo of cosmic rays at GeVs energy has been discovered recently by FERMI satellite. They are traces of atmospheric CR hitting solar atmosphere and reflecting skimming gamma photons. Even if relevant for astrophysics, as being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-05 Daniele Fargion , Pietro Oliva , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

UHECR: Signatures and Models

The signatures of Ultra High Energy (E >1 EeV) proton propagation through CMB radiation are pair-production dip and GZK cutoff. The visible characteristics of these two spectral features are ankle, which is intrinsic part of the dip,…

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Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in Our Universe

Our Universe is described jointly by Einstein's relativity principle and the quantum principle; there the existence of the smallest units of matter, such as electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and photons, is well established and the smallest…

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Neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts: propagation of cosmic rays in their host galaxies

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are proposed as candidate sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We study the possibility that the PeV neutrinos recently observed by IceCube are produced by GRB cosmic rays interacting with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Zi-Yi Wang , Xiang-Yu Wang , Jun-Feng Wang

Simulating the propagation of cosmic rays heavier than iron in SimProp

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have long been assumed to entirely consist of iron and/or lighter atomic nuclei, and this assumption has been hard-coded in a great deal of software for UHECR simulations and data analysis. However, in…

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On The Heavy Chemical Composition of the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

The Pierre Auger Observatory's (PAO) shower profile measurements can be used to constrain the chemical composition of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum. In particular, the PAO's measurements of the average depth of shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-12 Dan Hooper , Andrew M. Taylor

High-energy astroparticle physics

In these three lectures I discuss the present status of high-energy astroparticle physics including Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR), high-energy gamma rays, and neutrinos. The first lecture is devoted to ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.…

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Tau Neutrino Appearance with a 1000 Megaparsec Baseline

A high-energy neutrino telescope, such as the operating AMANDA detector, may detect neutrinos produced in sources, possibly active galactic nuclei or gamma-ray bursts, distant by a thousand megaparsecs. These sources produce mostly nu_e or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis Halzen , David Saltzberg

Testing Lorentz Invariance with Neutrinos from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions

We have previously shown that a very small amount of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), which suppresses photomeson interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with cosmic background radiation (CBR) photons, can produce a…

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Can astrophysical neutrinos trace the origin of the detected ultra-high energy cosmic rays?

Since astrophysical neutrinos are produced in the interactions of cosmic rays, identifying the origin of cosmic rays using directional correlations with neutrinos is one of the most interesting possibilities of the field. For that purpose,…

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Atmospheric and galactic tau neutrinos

Neutrinos with energy greater than GeV are copiously produced in the p(A,p) interactions occurring in the earth atmosphere and in our galactic plane. A comparison of the tau and mu neutrino flux in the presence of neutrino oscillations from…

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Leptoquark production in ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions revisited

The prospects for producing leptoquarks (LQs) in ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrino nucleon collisions are re-examined in the light of recent interpretations of HERA data in terms of leptoquark production. We update predictions for…

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A Bayesian analysis of the 27 highest energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

It is possible that ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are generated by active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but there is currently no conclusive evidence for this hypothesis. Several reports of correlations between the arrival directions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Laura J. Watson , Daniel J. Mortlock , Andrew H. Jaffe

Neutrino clustering and the Z-burst model

The possibility that the observed Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays are generated by high energy neutrinos creating "Z-bursts" in resonant interactions with the background neutrinos has been proposed, but there are difficulties in generating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. H. J. Mckellar , M. Garbutt , G. J. Stephenson , T. Goldman

Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV

Tau neutrinos are the least studied particle in the Standard Model. This whitepaper discusses the current and expected upcoming status of tau neutrino physics with attention to the broad experimental and theoretical landscape spanning…

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Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Signal from Nuclear Photodisintegration as a Probe of Extragalactic Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Nuclei

It is crucial to identify the ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) sources and probe their unknown properties. Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory favor a heavy nuclear composition for the UHECRs. Under the requirement that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-14 Kohta Murase , John F. Beacom

Minimal Cosmogenic Neutrinos

The observed flux of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) guarantees the presence of high-energy cosmogenic neutrinos that are produced via photo-hadronic interactions of CRs propagating through intergalactic space. This flux of…

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Probing neutrino emission at GeV energies from compact binary mergers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The advent of multi-messenger astronomy has allowed for new types of source searches by neutrino detectors. We present the results of the search for 0.5-100 GeV astrophysical neutrinos detected with IceCube and emitted from compact binary…

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Superheavy Gravitinos and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

We argue that the superheavy gravitinos that we had previously proposed as candidates for Dark Matter can offer a possible explanation for the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) events observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory, via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 Krzysztof A. Meissner , Hermann Nicolai