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The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remains an open questions in astrophysics. We explore two primary scenarios for the distribution of UHECR sources, assuming that their production rate follows either the cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Antonio Condorelli , Jonathan Biteau , Olivier Deligny , Remi Adam

Observations of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) do not uniquely determine both the injection spectrum and the evolution model for UHECR sources - primarily because interactions during propagation obscure the early Universe from direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 David Seckel , Todor Stanev

We consider limits on the local ($z=0$) density ($n_0$) of extragalactic neutrino sources set by the nondetection of steady high-energy neutrino sources producing $\gtrsim50$ TeV muon multiplets in the present IceCube data, taking into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-16 Kohta Murase , Eli Waxman

We discuss the relation between the highest energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and UHE neutrinos. The neutrinos produced in the sources of optically thin astrophysical sources have been linked to the UHECR emissivity of the Universe. The fluxes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todor Stanev

Over the last decade, observations have shown that the mean mass of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) increases progressively toward the highest energies. However, the precise composition is still unknown, and several theoretical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Domenik Ehlert , Arjen van Vliet , Foteini Oikonomou , Walter Winter

We discuss the basic difficulties in understanding the origin of the highest energy particles in the Universe - the ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR). It is difficult to imagine the sources they are accelerated in. Because of the strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Todor Stanev

The short review of theoretical aspects of ultra high energy (UHE) neutrinos. The accelerator sources, such as Supernovae remnants, Gamma Ray Bursts, AGN etc are discussed. The top-down sources include Topological Defects (TDs), Superheavy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-04 V. Berezinsky

We present a method to analyse arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using a classifier defined by a deep convolutional neural network trained on a HEALPix grid. To illustrate a high effectiveness of the method, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Oleg Kalashev , Maxim Pshirkov , Mikhail Zotov

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos have been observed by several telescopes in the last decade, but their sources still remained unknown. We address the problem of locating astrophysical neutrinos' sources in a statistical manner. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 A. V. Plavin , Y. Y. Kovalev , Y. A. Kovalev , S. V. Troitsky

Ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos are unique cosmic messengers that can traverse cosmological distances unattenuated, offering direct insight into the most energetic processes in the universe. Radio detection promises significant advantages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Baobiao Yue , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Julian Rautenberg

We study the production of cosmogenic neutrinos and photons during the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). For a wide range of models in cosmological evolution of source luminosity, composition and maximum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Guillaume Decerprit , Denis Allard

Astrophysical neutrinos are expected to be produced in the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays with surrounding photons. The fluxes of the astrophysical neutrinos are highly dependent on the characteristics of the cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Shigeru Yoshida , Aya Ishihara

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the most promising neutrino sources. The KM3NeT experiment…

With the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux in the 0.1 PeV to PeV range from beyond the Earth's atmosphere with the IceCube detector, neutrino astronomy has achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Kappes

The existence of cosmic ray particles up to the ultra-high energy limit (> 10^20 eV) is now beyond any doubt. The detection of cosmic particles with such energies imposes a challenge for the comprehension of their sources and nature. On one…

A fundamental question that can be answered in the next decade is: WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC PARTICLES? The discovery of the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays will reveal the workings of the most energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-03 A. V. Olinto , J. H. Adams , C. D. Dermer , J. F. Krizmanic , J. W. Mitchell , P. Sommers , T. Stanev , F. W. Stecker , Y. Takahashi

We outline two concepts to explain Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), one based on radio galaxies and their relativistic jets and terminal hot spots, and one based on relativistic Super-Novae (SNe) or Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in…

The origins of ultra-high-energy particles remain one of the most profound mysteries in astrophysics. If nearby transient sources of ultra-high-energy particles exist, we might expect correlated emission of neutrinos and photons, arriving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Maxwell Nakos

The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, may soon be within reach of upcoming neutrino telescopes. We present a robust framework to compute the statistical significance of point-source discovery via the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante , Victor B. Valera

Interactions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with background photons set a limit to the distance cosmic rays reaching us above a certain energy can originate from, making measurements of their fluxes insensitive to properties of sources at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-09 Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Sergio Petrera , Francesco Salamida