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The unified models of astrophysical sources to account for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high-energy cosmic neutrinos with energies greater than 100 TeV have been discussed. Based on model-independent arguments, we argue that if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase

The main goal of the construction of large volume, high energy neutrino telescopes is the detection of extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV, cosmic-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Waxman

Neutrino interactions with protons and neutrons probe their deep structure and may reveal new physics. The higher the neutrino energy, the sharper the probe. So far, the neutrino-nucleon ($\nu N$) cross section is known across neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Victor Branco Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

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

The existence of cosmic rays of energies exceeding 10^20 eV is one of the mysteries of high energy astrophysics. The spectrum and the high energy to which it extends rule out almost all suggested source models. The challenges posed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Waxman

Very-high-energy (VHE) $\gamma$-rays ($\gtrsim 0.1\rm~TeV$) and neutrinos are crucial for identifying accelerators of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), but this is challenging especially for UHECR nuclei. In this work, we develop a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 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

The discovery of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos has the potential to offer unique insight into fundamental questions. To capitalize on the upcoming opportunity provided by new UHE neutrino telescopes, we provide state-of-the-art…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

The possible connection between high energy neutrinos in the energy region above 100 TeV and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies above $10^{19}$ eV motivates multi-messenger observation approaches involving neutrinos and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Shigeru Yoshida

The search for the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using high-energy neutrinos represents a frontier in high-energy astrophysics. However, a critical bottleneck remains: the ability to rapidly survey the sizable sky areas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Fabian Schüssler , Sofia Bisero , Bernardo Cornejo , Filippo D'Ammando , Richard I. Anderson , Ilja Jaroschewski , Silvia Piranomonte , Fatemeh Zahra Majid

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can be sources of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic rays and potential emitters of UHE neutrinos. The upcoming and current radio neutrino detectors like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Kumiko Kotera , Stephanie Wissel , Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura

The energy density of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the Universe is a very important parameter for the solution of the puzzle of their origin. It defines the luminosity of the UHECR sources and thus the type of objects they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Todor Stanev

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

We discuss the production of ultra high energy neutrinos coming from the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays and in the framework of top-down models for the production of these extremely energetic particles. We show the importance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-21 Roberto Aloisio

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

The recent progress made in Galactic gamma-ray astronomy using the High Energy Stereoskopic System (H.E.S.S.) instrument provides for the first time a population of Galactic TeV gamma-rays, and hence potential neutrino sources, for which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alexander Kappes , Jim Hinton , Christian Stegmann , Felix A. Aharonian

Multi-messenger high-energy astrophysics has currently achieved the potential to unravel the origin of cosmic rays and how sources accelerate them, their relation to the diffuse radiation in the extra-galactic space, and their role to forge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Teresa Montaruli

Nearby radio galaxies are among the most promising candidates for the acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). In this work, we develop a physically motivated, source-resolved framework to quantify the contribution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Andressa Colaço , Gabriel Azeredo , Isadora Parillo , Cainã de Oliveira , Vitor de Souza

Observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) -whose energy exceeds $10^20$eV- is still a puzzle for modern astrophysics. The transfer of more than 16 Joules to a microscopic particle can hardly be achieved, even in the most powerful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antoine Letessier-Selvon

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, UHECR, are charged particles with energies between $\sim10^{18}\,{\rm eV}$ and $\sim3\times10^{20}\,{\rm eV}\sim50\,{\rm J}$. They exhibit fundamental physics at energies inaccessible to terrestrial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Noémie Globus , Roger Blandford