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The cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B) can be boosted to high energies due to scatterings with energetic cosmic rays (CRs) across cosmological scales. Previous calculations focused on neutral current incoherent and coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Gonzalo Herrera , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Xiaolin Qi , Ian M. Shoemaker

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 measured fluxes of secondary particles produced by the interactions of Cosmic Rays (CRs) with the astronomical environment play a crucial role in understanding the physics of CR transport. In this work we present a comprehensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-06 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Cerutti , A. Ferrari , D. Gaggero , F. Loparco , P. R. Sala

Recently, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has reported a deviation from the single power law in the extragalactic diffuse neutrino flux. A neural network-based event selection of contained and uncontained cascade events from IceCube, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-31 Zoë Rechav , Emre Yildizci , Lu Lu

An analysis of 7.5 years of data in the high-energy starting event sample has been recently published by the IceCube collaboration. The hottest spot in a search for neutrino sources was found far above the Galactic plane and is thus, at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-20 M. Bouyahiaoui , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

Following the coalescence of binary neutron stars, debris from the merger which remains marginally bound to the central compact remnant will fallback at late times, feeding a sustained accretion flow. Unbound winds or a wide-angle jet from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Valentin Decoene , Claire Guépin , Ke Fang , Kumiko Kotera , Brian David Metzger

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical accelerators capable of producing high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays can interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) across the Galaxy to produce neutrinos and gamma rays (propagation component),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Mohadeseh Ozlati Moghadam , Kathrin Egberts , Rowan Batzofin , Constantin Steppa , Elisa Bernardini

Diffuse background of high energy neutrinos arising from interactions of cosmic ray protons with far infrared radiation background in extragalactic space is calculated. It is assumed that cosmic ray spectrum at superhigh energies has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Bugaev , P. A. Klimai

Star-forming galaxies, due to their high star-formation rates and hence large number of supernova remnants therein, are huge reservoirs of cosmic rays (CRs). These CRs collide with gases in the galaxies and produce high-energy neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Xiao-Chuan Chang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

The observed very high energy spectra of distant blazars are well described by secondary gamma rays produced in line-of-sight interactions of cosmic rays with background photons. In the absence of the cosmic-ray contribution, one would not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-29 Oleg E. Kalashev , Alexander Kusenko , Warren Essey

In nuclei of starburst galaxies, the combination of an enhanced rate of supernova explosions and a high gas density suggests that cosmic rays can be efficiently produced, and that most of them lose their energy before escaping these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-26 Enrico Peretti , Pasquale Blasi , Felix Aharonian , Giovanni Morlino , Pierre Cristofari

Nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants is employed to calculate CR spectra. The magnetic field in SNRs is assumed to be significantly amplified by the efficiently accelerating nuclear CR component. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Voelk

The IceCube collaboration reports a detection of extra-terrestrial neutrinos. The isotropy and flavor content of the signal, and the coincidence, within current uncertainties, of the 50 TeV to 2 PeV flux and the spectrum with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 E. Waxman

The IceCube experiment recently detected the first flux of high-energy neutrinos in excess of atmospheric backgrounds. We examine whether these neutrinos originate from within the same extragalactic sources as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew D. Kistler , Todor Stanev , Hasan Yuksel

We examine in detail the detectability of a signal of diffuse high energy neutrinos produced in the Milky Way by the interaction of cosmic rays (CRs) with the interstellar medium (ISM). We show that highly inhomogeneous galactic CR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julián Candia

Motivated by a recent change in viewing the onset of the extra-galactic component in the cosmic ray spectrum, we have fitted the observed data down to $10^{8.6}$ GeV and have obtained the corresponding power emissivity. This transition…

I give a brief discussion of possible sources of high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin over the energy range from $\sim 10^{12}$ eV to $\sim 10^{25}$ eV. In particular I shall review predictions of the diffuse neutrino intensity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Protheroe

Although kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments, their conceptual design is very much anchored to the observational fact that Nature produces protons and photons with energies in excess of 10^{20} eV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Francis Halzen

Galactic and extragalactic objects in the universe are sources of high-energy neutrinos {that may contribute to the astrophysical neutrino signal seen by IceCube.} Recently, a study done using cascade-like events seen by IceCube reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-02 Abhishek Desai , Justin Vandenbroucke , Samalka Anandagoda , Jessie Thwaites , M. J. Romfoe

The photo-disintegration of cosmic ray nuclei by starlight leads to the production of secondary antineutrinos. We have assumed that the flux of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray nuclei near the Galactic plane region is the same as that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Nayantara Gupta