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Late time decay of very heavy dark matter is considered as one of the possible explanations for diffuse PeV neutrinos observed in IceCube. We consider implications of multimessenger constraints, and show that proposed models are marginally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-16 Kohta Murase , Ranjan Laha , Shin'ichiro Ando , Markus Ahlers

We argue that the excess of sub-PeV/PeV neutrinos recently reported by IceCube could plausibly originate through pion-production processes in the same sources responsible for cosmic rays (CRs) with energy above the second knee around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-23 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang , Susumu Inoue , Roland Crocker , Felix Aharonian

The recent detection of TeV neutrino sources by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory demonstrates the detector's advanced capabilities in detecting high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. At lower energies, down to the GeV range, a variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Yukiho Kobayashi

Various supernovae (SN), compact object coalescences, and tidal disruption events are widely believed to occur embedded in active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks and generate detectable electromagnetic (EM) signals. We collectively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Zi-Hang Zhou , Jin-Ping Zhu , Kai Wang

Clusters of galaxies -- with their turbulent magnetic fields and abundant matter content -- are a promising class of potential neutrino sources. Cosmic rays accelerated within the large-scale shocks,Active GalacticNuclei (AGN), or both can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Mehr Un Nisa , Andrew Ludwig

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

We propose an interpretation of the two neutrino initiated cascade events with PeV energies observed by IceCube: Ultra-high energy cosmic ray protons (or Fe nuclei) scatter on CMB photons through the Delta-resonance (the Berezinsky-Zatsepin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Barger , J. Learned , S. Pakvasa

We present a novel interpretation of IceCube high energy neutrino events (with energy larger than 60 TeV) in terms of an extraterrestrial flux due to two different contributions: a flux originated by known astrophysical sources and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-11 Sofiane M. Boucenna , Marco Chianese , Gianpiero Mangano , Gennaro Miele , Stefano Morisi , Ofelia Pisanti , Edoardo Vitagliano

IceCube has observed neutrinos above 100 TeV at a level significantly above the steeply falling background of atmospheric neutrinos. The astrophysical signal is seen both in the high-energy starting event analysis from the whole sky and as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Thomas K. Gaisser

The sources of galactic charged cosmic rays are so far unknown, because their arrival directions are randomized in the galactic magnetic field. Objects accelerating hadrons are expected to produce high-energy neutrinos. In addition, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 A. Sandrock

It is shown that two PeV events observed by the IceCube collaboration can be interpreted as resonance production of color octet neutrinos.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-12 A. N. Akay , U. Kaya , S. Sultansoy

We show that a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, though optimized for detecting neutrinos of TeV to PeV energy, can reveal the science associated with the enigmatic super-EeV radiation in the Universe. Speculations regarding its origin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

The recent discovery of a diffuse neutrino flux up to PeV energies raises the question of which populations of astrophysical sources contribute to this diffuse signal. One extragalactic candidate source population to produce high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Thorsten Glüsenkamp

With the breakthrough in PeV gamma-ray astronomy brought by the LHAASO experiment, the high-energy sky is getting richer than before. Lately, LHAASO Collaboration reported the observation of a gamma-ray diffuse emission with energy up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 Chengyu Shao , Sujie Lin , Lili Yang

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 IceCube Neutrino Observatory has recently found compelling evidence for a particular blazar producing high-energy neutrinos and $\mathrm{PeV}$ cosmic rays, however the sources of cosmic rays above several $\mathrm{EeV}$ remain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-27 Lisa Schumacher

We review and clarify the assumptions of our basic model for neutrino production in the cores of quasars, as well as those modifications to the model subsequently made by other workers. We also present a revised estimate of the neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 F. W. Stecker , M. H. Salamon

The recent observation of two PeV events at IceCube, followed by an additional 26 events between 30 - 300 TeV, has generated considerable speculations on its origin, and many exotic New Physics explanations have been invoked. For a reliable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Chien-Yi Chen , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Amarjit Soni

We propose that the recently observed diffuse neutrinos by IceCube with energies above 1 PeV might have originated from Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$ located in the galactic disk. This implies that the astrophysical settings of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-30 Sabyasachi Ray , Rajat K. Dey

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