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While propagating from their source to the observer, ultrahigh energy cosmic rays interact with cosmological photon backgrounds and generate to the so-called "cosmogenic neutrinos". Here we study the parameter space of the cosmogenic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Angela V. Olinto

Under the assumption that some part of the observed highest energy cosmic rays consists of protons originating from cosmological distances, we derive bounds on the associated flux of neutrinos generated by inelastic processes with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , A. Ringwald , H. Tu

When ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interact with ambient photon backgrounds, a flux of extremely-high-energy (EHE), so-called cosmogenic, neutrinos is produced. The observation of these neutrinos with IceCube can probe the nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Maximilian Meier , Brian A. Clark

The baryonic mass composition of ultrahigh energy ($\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV) cosmic rays (UHECRs) at injection accompanied by their interactions on universal photon backgrounds during propagation directly governs the UHECR flux on the Earth.…

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

Cosmogenic neutrinos originate from photo-hadronic interactions of cosmic ray protons with the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The neutrino production rate can be constrained through the accompanying electrons, positrons and gamma-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-10 M. Ahlers , L. A. Anchordoqui , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , F. Halzen , Subir Sarkar

Recent measurements of the spectrum and composition of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays suggest that their extragalactic sources may be accelerating heavy nuclei in addition to protons. This can suppress the cosmogenic neutrino flux relative to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Subir Sarkar

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

We discuss the production of cosmogenic neutrinos on extragalactic infrared photons in a model of its cosmological evolution. The relative importance of these infrared photons as a target for proton interactions is significant, especially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Daniel De Marco , Todor Stanev , F. W. Stecker

The interactions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in extragalactic space with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and extragalactic background light (EBL) can generate high-energy neutrinos and photons. Simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Rafael Alves Batista , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Arjen van Vliet

Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) protons interacting with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produce UHE electrons and gamma-rays that in turn initiate electromagnetic cascades on CMB and infrared photons. As a result, a background of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Berezinsky , A. Gazizov , M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko

Muon pairs can be produced in the annihilation of ultra-high energy (UHE, $E \gtrsim 10^{18} \,\mathrm{eV}$) photons with low energy cosmic background radiation in the intergalactic space, giving birth to neutrinos. Although the branching…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Kai Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Zhuo Li , Zi-Gao Dai

We calculate the flux of neutrinos generated by the propagation of ultra-high energy iron over cosmological distances and show that even if ultra-high energy cosmic rays are composed of heavy nuclei, a significant flux of high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maximo Ave , N. Busca , A. V. Olinto , A. A. Watson , T. Yamamoto

The short review of theoretical aspects of ultra high energy (UHE) neutrinos and superGZK neutrinos. The sources and diffuse fluxes of UHE neutrinos are discussed. Much attention is given to comparison of the cascade and cosmic ray upper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Berezinsky

We deduce the cosmogenic neutrino flux by jointly analysing ultra high energy cosmic ray data from HiRes-I and II, AGASA and the Pierre Auger Observatory. We make two determinations of the neutrino flux by using a model-dependent method and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , Patrick Huber , Danny Marfatia

Transrelativistic supernovae (SNe), which are likely driven by central engines via jets or winds, have been among candidate sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We investigate acceleration and survival of UHECR nuclei in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase

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,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Andrea Palladino , Arjen van Vliet , Walter Winter , Anna Franckowiak

Current data on ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays suggest they are predominantly made of heavy nuclei. This indicates that the flux of neutrinos produced from proton collisions on the cosmic microwave background is small and hard to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Gustavo F. S. Alves , Matheus Hostert , Maxim Pospelov

Ultra High Energy cosmogenic neutrinos may represent a unique opportunity to unveil possible new physics interactions once restricted to the neutrino sector only. In the present paper we study the observable effects of a secret…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Stefano Morisi , Ninetta Saviano

We aim to explain in a unified way the experimental data on ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and neutrinos, using a single source class and obeying limits on the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray background (EGRB). If UHECRs only interact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 M. Kachelriess , O. Kalashev , S. Ostapchenko , D. V. Semikoz

The dip model assumes that the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 10$^{18}$ eV consist exclusively of protons and is consistent with the spectrum and composition measure by HiRes. Here we present the range of cosmogenic neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Graciela B. Gelmini , Oleg Kalashev , Dmitri V. Semikoz