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The LHC heavy-ion program with $^{208}$Pb$^{82+}$ beams will benefit from a significant increase of the beam intensity when entering its High-Luminosity era in Run~3 (2023). The stored energy is expected to surpass 20~MJ per beam. The LHC…

Magnetic reconnection is an explosive energy release event. It plays an important role in accelerating particles to high non-thermal energies. These particles often exhibit energy spectra characterized by a power-law distribution. However,…

Secondary {\gamma}-rays from intergalactic cascades may contribute to observable spectra of blazars, also modifying observable angular and temporal distributions. In this paper we briefly review basic features of intergalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-13 T. A. Dzhatdoev , E. V. Khalikov , A. P. Kircheva , E. I. Podlesnyi

Collisional thermalization of a particle ensemble under the energy dissipation can be seen in variety of systems, such as heated granular gasses and particles in plasmas. Despite its universal existence, analytical descriptions of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Keisuke Fujii , Jun Imano , Arseniy Kuzmin , Taiichi Shikama , Masahiro Hasuo

Very high energy gamma-rays from blazars traversing cosmological distances through the metagalactic radiation field can convert into electron-positron pairs in photon-photon collisions. The converted gamma-rays initiate electromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tanja M. Kneiske , Karl Mannheim

Primary gamma rays emitted by extragalactic sources, such as blazars, will generate electromagnetic cascades in intergalactic space. These cascades proceed via electron-positron pair production and inverse Compton scattering on cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-14 H. Huan , T. Weisgarber

We apply the IC e$^\pm$ pair cascade model in order to investigate the possible $\gamma$-ray emission features from another compact massive binary of the microquasar type, Cyg X-1. We conclude that the observational constraints at lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , F. Giovannelli

The first complete estimation of the compressible energy cascade rate $|\varepsilon_\text{C}|$ at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and sub-ion scales is obtained in the Earth's magnetosheath using Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) spacecraft data…

Inverse-Compton cascades initiated by energetic gamma rays (E>100 GeV) enhance the GeV emission from bright, extragalactic TeV sources. The absence of this emission from bright TeV blazars has been used to constrain the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Avery E. Broderick , Philip Chang , Christoph Pfrommer

The advent of high-resolution imaging of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) provides a unique probe of the astrophysics of the intracluster medium (ICM) out to high redshifts. To investigate the effects of cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 John J. Ruan , Thomas R. Quinn , Arif Babul

The physical processes involved in diffusion of Galactic cosmic rays in the interstellar medium are addressed. We study the possibility that the nonlinear MHD cascade sets the power-law spectrum of turbulence which scatters charged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. S. Ptuskin , I. V. Moskalenko , F. C. Jones , A. W. Strong , V. N. Zirakashvili

Recent progress in very high energy (VHE, E >100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray observations, together with advances in the extragalactic background light (EBL) modelling, allows to search for new phenomena such as $\gamma$-axion-like particle ($\gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-16 T. A. Dzhatdoev

A method for measurement of energy of high-energy particles by a thin calorimeter, is presented. The method is based on the correlation analysis of dependence of number of secondary particles, $N_e$, at observation level and the relation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-22 A. Sh. Gaitinov , S. A. Ibraimova , I. A. LebedeV , A. I Lebedeva

Using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate heating and turbulence driving in an intracluster medium (ICM) by orbital motions of galaxies in a galaxy cluster. We consider Ng member galaxies on isothermal and isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Woong-Tae Kim

We investigate the electromagnetic cascade initiated by injection of very high energy photons in the early Universe and calculate the cascade spectrum by solving a set of Boltzmann equations numerically. In the calculation we take account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Kawasaki , T. Moroi

Isoscaling and its relation to the symmetry energy in the fragmentation of excited residues produced at relativistic energies were studied in two experiments conducted at the GSI laboratory. The INDRA multidetector has been used to detect…

The standard cosmological model is in the midst of a stress test, thanks to the tension between supernovae-based measurements of the Hubble constant $H_{0}$ and inferences of its values from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 K. Rezazadeh , A. Ashoorioon , D. Grin

Heat input roughly balances radiative cooling in the gaseous cores of galaxy clusters even when the central cooling time is short, implying that cooling triggers a feedback loop that maintains thermal balance. Furthermore, cores with short…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gregory Meece , Brian O'Shea , Mark Voit

Acceleration of cosmic-ray electrons (CRe) in the intra-cluster-medium (ICM) is probed by radio observations that detect diffuse, Mpc-scale, synchrotron sources in a fraction of galaxy clusters. Giant radio halos are the most spectacular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-11 G. Brunetti

Ultrahigh energy protons and nuclei from extragalactic cosmic ray sources initiate intergalactic electromagnetic cascades, resulting in observable fluxes of $\gamma$-rays in the GeV-TeV energy domain. The total spectrum of such cascade…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 E. V. Khalikov , T. A. Dzhatdoev