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High energy neutrinos play a very important role for the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). They can be produced as a consequence of the hadronic interactions suffered by the cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

In this report we review the important progress made in recent years towards understanding the experimental data on ultra-high-energy ($E \gtrsim 10^9$ GeV) cosmic rays. We begin with a general survey of the available data, including a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Luis A. Anchordoqui

We describe a method to analyse inclined air showers produced by ultra high energy cosmic rays using an analytical description of the muon densities. We report the results obtained using data from inclined events…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ave , J. A. Hinton , R. A. Vazquez , A. A. Watson , E. Zas

Detecting neutrinos and photons is crucial to identifying the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), especially for transient sources. We focus on ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emission from transient sources such as gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-18 Kohta Murase

We explain the observed multiwavelength photon spectrum of a number of BL Lac objects detected at very high energy (VHE, $E \gtrsim 30$ GeV), using a lepto-hadronic emission model. The one-zone leptonic emission is employed to fit the…

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

If ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated at astrophysical point sources, the identification of such sources can be achieved if there is some kind of radiation at observable wavelengths that may be associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Ferrigno , P. Blasi , D. De Marco

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sources of energetic, highly variable fluxes of gamma rays, which demonstrates that they are powerful particle accelerators. Besides relativistic electrons, GRBs should also accelerate high-energy hadrons, some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles D. Dermer , Armen Atoyan

Both the lack of observation of ultra-high energy (UHE) photons and the limitations of the state-of-the-art methodology being applied for their identification motivate studies on alternative approaches to the relevant simulations and the…

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) offer a unique chance to study the universe at energies inaccessible by man-made accelerators. Observations by ground based observatories have clarified several characteristics of these particles, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 M. Casolino

The study of hadronic showers, which are produced by cosmic rays penetrating the Earth's atmosphere, is essential for shedding light on the origins and characteristics of high-energy particles originating from space and reaching our planet.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-22 Michael Pitt

The JEM-EUSO mission explores the origin of the extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs) above 100 EeV and explores the limits of the fundamental physics through the observations of their arrival directions and energies. It is designed to achieve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

Combined recent data from cosmic-ray detectors and gamma-ray detectors have produced some surprising insights regarding the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), magnetic fields inside and outside the Milky Way, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Kusenko

In high energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy with shower arrays the most discriminating signature of the photon-induced showers against the background of hadron-induced cosmic-ray is the content of muons in the observed events. In the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

We explore inferences on ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) source environments -- constrained by the spectrum and composition of UHECRs and non-observation of extremely high energy neutrinos -- and their implications for the observed high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-24 Marco Stein Muzio , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Unger

High energy neutrinos can be produced by interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in the dense radiation fields of their sources as well as off the cosmic backgrounds when they propagate through the universe. Multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Daniel Biehl , Denise Boncioli , Anatoli Fedynitch , Leonel Morejon , Walter Winter

The origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with energies above E > 1017eV, is still unknown. The discovery of their sources will reveal the engines of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the universe. This is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 M. T. Dova

The technique of adjoint cascade equations has been applied to calculate the properties of extremely high energy gamma-rays in the energy range 10^18--10^22 eV with taking into account the LPM effect and interactions of gamma-rays with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Plyasheshnikov , F. A. Aharonian

The origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E>10^{18}$ eV) is still uncertain. However, great progress has been achieved due to the data taken by The Pierre Auger and Telescope Array observatories. The UHECR flux presents two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

High energy Astroparticles include Cosmic Ray, gamma ray and neutrinos, all of them coming from the universe. The origin and production, acceleration and propagation mechanisms of ultrahigh-energy CR (up to $10^{20}$ eV) are still unknown.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-14 Karen Salomé Caballero Mora