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The IceCube collaboration recently reported the potential detection of two cascade neutrino events in the energy range 1-10 PeV. We study the possibility that these PeV neutrinos are produced by gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), paying special…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

The closest radio galaxies; Centaurus A, M87 and NGC 1275, have been detected from radio wavelengths to TeV $\gamma$-rays, and also studied as high-energy neutrino and ultra-high-energy cosmic ray potential emitters. Their spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 Nissim Fraija , Antonio Marinelli

Neutrinos offer a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, with TeV-PeV energies, may provide evidence of new, "secret" neutrino-neutrino interactions that are stronger than ordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Mauricio Bustamante , Charlotte Amalie Rosenstroem , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Star-forming galaxies have been predicted to contribute considerably to the diffuse gamma-ray background as they are guaranteed reservoirs of cosmic rays. Assuming that the hadronic interactions responsible for high-energy gamma rays also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Irene Tamborra , Shin'ichiro Ando , Kohta Murase

The origins of the diffuse flux of cosmogenic PeV neutrinos detected in the IceCube experiment during 2010 - 2017 remain unidentified. A population of extragalactic newly born fast spinning pulsars are investigated as possible candidates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 Rajat K. Dey , Animesh Basak , Sabyasachi Ray , Tamal Sarkar

Cosmic rays of energies up to a few PeV are believed to be of galactic origin, yet individual sources have still not been firmly identified. Due to inelastic collisions with the interstellar gas, cosmic-ray nuclei produce a diffuse flux of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Anton Stall , Leonard Kaiser , Philipp Mertsch

Recent observations, particularly from the HESS Collaboration, have revealed rich Galactic populations of TeV gamma-ray sources, including a collection unseen in other wavelengths. Many of these gamma-ray spectra are well measured up to ~10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew D. Kistler , John F. Beacom

The recent results of IceCube Neutrino Observatory include an excess of PeV neutrino events which appear to follow a broken power law different from the other lower energy neutrinos detected by IceCube. The possible astrophysical source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-28 Tista Mukherjee , Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar , Ashadul Halder

We have estimated the number flux of of mu-neutrinos which are produced due to the hadronic interactions between the cosmic rays coming from a neutron star and the matter in a companion star. The event rate at 1 km^2 detectors of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Nagataki

Recently, Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected several Galactic point sources of ultra high energy (UHE; $E_{\gamma}> 100$ TeV) gamma-rays. These gamma-rays are possibly created in leptonic or hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Prantik Sarmah , Sovan Chakraborty , Jagdish C. Joshi

Astronomy at the highest energies observed must be performed by studying neutrinos rather than photons because the universe is opaque to photons of these energies. By making observations of neutrinos with energies above 10 EeV one can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Cline , F. W. Stecker

Loeb and Waxman have argued that high energy neutrinos from the decay of pions produced in interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar gas in starburst galaxies would be produced with a large enough flux to be observable. Their model is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. W. Stecker

A clue to finding the long-sought sources of cosmic rays is the recent observation of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube detector, since these possibly originate in hadronic interactions at cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Santander

It is often stated that the observation of high-energy neutrinos from an astrophysical source would constitute a smoking gun for the acceleration of hadronic cosmic rays. Here, we point out that there exists a purely leptonic mechanism to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Dan Hooper , Kathryn Plant

Very recently, the IceCube Collaboration reported a flux of neutrinos in the energy range 50 TeV < E_\nu < 2 PeV, which departs from expectations from atmospheric background at the 5.7\sigma level. This flux is in remarkable agreement with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-09 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Thomas C. Paul , Luiz H. M. da Silva , Diego F. Torres , Brian J. Vlcek

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray flux between 0.1 and 1 PeV has recently been measured by the Tibet AS$\gamma$ Collaboration. The flux and spectrum are consistent with the decay of neutral pions from hadronuclear interactions between Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission originates from the interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar medium or radiation fields within our Galaxy, where the production of neutrinos is also anticipated. Recently, the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wenlian Li , Tian-Qi Huang , Donglian Xu , Huihai He

The IceCube neutrino observatory, a cubic-kilometer particle detector at the South Pole, first announced the discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range in 2013, followed in 2017 by the detection of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Marcos Santander

Neutrinos at energies ranging from sub-TeV to EeV from astrophysical sources can yield interesting physical information about fundamental interactions, about cosmic rays and about the nature of the sources and their environment. Gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 P. Meszaros , S. Razzaque

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an array of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Kevin J. Meagher