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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

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

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

We discuss ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CR) from minor sources and their possible contribution to the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray emission. As an illustration of minor sources we consider possible specific type of active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Uryson

Using the cosmic ray (CR) data available in the energy interval $(10 - 2 \times 10^{7})$ GeV/particle, we have calculated the profile of the primary $\gamma$-ray spectrum produced by the interaction of these CR with thermal nuclei of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. A. Medina Tanco , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We calculate the flux of neutrinos generated by the propagation of ultra-high energy nuclei over cosmological distances. The propagation takes into account the interactions with cosmic background radiations including the CMB and the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 D. Allard , M. Ave , N. Busca , M. A. Malkan , A. V. Olinto , E. Parizot , F. W. Stecker , T. Yamamoto

GeV-TeV gamma-rays and PeV-EeV neutrino backgrounds provide a unique window on the nature of the ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs). We discuss the implications of the recent Fermi-LAT data regarding the extragalactic gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Noemie Globus , Denis Allard , Etienne Parizot , Tsvi Piran

If ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have extragalactic origins, as is widely assumed to be the case at least for the majority of cosmic rays with energies above a few EeV, secondary neutrinos and photons can be expected to be produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Carmelo Evoli , Aurelio F. Grillo , Sergio Petrera

We provide our estimates of the intensity of the gamma-ray emission with an energy near 0.1 TeV generated in inrergalactic space in the interactions of cosmic rays with background emissions. We assume that the cosmic ray sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 A. V. Uryson

The highest-energy cosmic neutrino detected by the ARCA detector of KM3NeT has reignited the quest to pinpoint the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs; $E\gtrsim 0.1$ EeV). By uncovering the associated multimessenger signals, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Sovan Boxi , Saikat Das , Nayantara Gupta

Ultra-high cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies >10^19 eV emitted at cosmological distances will be attenuated by cosmic microwave and infrared background radiation through photohadronic processes. Lower energy extra-galactic cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-25 Xiang-Yu Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Felix Aharonian

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 consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

GeV-TeV gamma-ray and PeV-EeV neutrino backgrounds provide a unique window on the nature of the ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs). We discuss the implications of the recent Fermi-LAT data regarding the extragalactic gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-06 Noemie Globus , Denis Allard , Etienne Parizot , Tsvi Piran

Ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) of energies $\sim (10^{18}-10^{20})~{\rm eV}$, accelerated in violent astrophysical environments, interact with cosmic background radiation fields via photo-hadronic processes, leading to strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Ellis R. Owen , Qin Han , Kinwah Wu , Y. X. Jane Yap , Pooja Surajbali

We discuss the relation between the highest energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and UHE neutrinos. The neutrinos produced in the sources of optically thin astrophysical sources have been linked to the UHECR emissivity of the Universe. The fluxes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todor Stanev

Cosmogenic neutrinos (CNs) are produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interacting with cosmic background radiation. We investigated the properties of CN point/extended sources, i.e, the neutrino spectrum, and angular profile as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Qinyuan Zhang , Tian-Qi Huang , Zhuo Li

We use CRPropa 3 to show how the expected cosmogenic neutrino and gamma-ray spectra depend on the maximum energy of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at their sources, on the spectral index at injection and on the chemical composition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-17 Arjen van Vliet , Jörg R. Hörandel , Rafael Alves Batista

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

Very-high energy (GeV-TeV) gamma rays in the universe suggest the presence of an accelerator in the source. Neutrinos and gamma rays are intriguing astrophysical messengers. Multi-messenger particle emission produced by interactions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Rodrigo Sasse , Adriel G. B. Mocellin , Rita C. dos Anjos , Carlos H. Coimbra-Araujo
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