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We revisit the Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECRs) production in Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) in the light of recent neutrino-TDE associations. We use an isotropically emitting source-propagation model, which has been developed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Pavlo Plotko , Walter Winter , Cecilia Lunardini , Chengchao Yuan

High-energy neutrino telescopes such as IceCube or KM3NeT issue public alerts describing the characteristics of possible astrophysical high-energy neutrino events. This information, particularly with respect to the arrival direction and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-22 Thierry Pradier

We explore the potential of a future, ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) experiment, that is able to overcome the limitation of low statistics, to detect anisotropy in the arrival directions of UHECRs. We concentrate on the lower energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-28 Foteini Oikonomou , Kumiko Kotera , Filipe B. Abdalla

Of all high-energy particles, only neutrinos can directly convey astronomical information from the edge of the universe---and from deep inside the most cataclysmic high-energy processes. Copiously produced in high-energy collisions,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Halzen

Soon, a new generation of neutrino telescopes, presently under planning, will target the discovery of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos of cosmic origin, with energies higher than 100 PeV, that promise unique insight into astrophysics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Olga Mena

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

In this review we motivate ultrahigh energy neutrino searches and their connection to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. We give an overview of neutrino production mechanisms and their potential sources. Several model-independent benchmarks of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Marco Stein Muzio

With the discovery of evidence for neutrino mass, a vivid gamma ray sky at multi-TeV energies, and cosmic ray particles with unexpectedly high energies, astroparticle physics currently runs through an era of rapid progress and moving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Karl Mannheim

The recent announcement of the detection of the ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino event KM3-230213A by the KM3NeT telescope represents a critical opportunity to explore the origins of cosmic neutrinos and their potential gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Connor Mooney

We consider the prospects for future ultrahigh energy cosmic ray and neutrino observations to constrain the evolution of sources producing a proton flux above 10 EeV (1 EeV = 10^18 eV). We find that strong constraints on the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-16 Marco Stein Muzio , M. Unger , Stephanie Wissel

The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos is one of the biggest mysteries in astroparticle physics. The fact that diffuse intensities of high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, and GeV-TeV gamma rays are all comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-17 Kohta Murase

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been held as one of the most promising sources of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos. The internal shock model of GRB emission posits the joint production of UHE cosmic ray (UHECRs, above 10^8 GeV), photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-10 Mauricio Bustamante , Philipp Baerwald , Walter Winter

The Pierre Auger Observatory stands as the largest detector for ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays. The Observatory is also sensitive to UHE photons and neutrinos that can be produced along with UHE cosmic rays or in top-down processes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Nicolas M. Gonzalez

If ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated at astrophysical point sources, the identification of such sources can be achieved if there is some kind of radiation at observable wavelengths that may be associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Ferrigno , P. Blasi , D. De Marco

The field of astroparticle physics is currently developing rapidly, since new experiments challenge our understanding of the investigated processes. Three messengers can be used to extract information on the properties of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julia K. Becker

The dip model assumes that the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 10$^{18}$ eV consist exclusively of protons and is consistent with the spectrum and composition measure by HiRes. Here we present the range of cosmogenic neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Graciela B. Gelmini , Oleg Kalashev , Dmitri V. Semikoz

Very-high energy (GeV-TeV) gamma rays in the universe suggest the presence of an accelerator in the source. Neutrinos and gamma rays are intriguing astrophysical messengers. Multi-messenger particle emission produced by interactions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Rodrigo Sasse , Adriel G. B. Mocellin , Rita C. dos Anjos , Carlos H. Coimbra-Araujo

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) above an energy threshold of tens of EeV might undergo only small deflections due to interstellar magnetic fields. Their arrival directions would then point to regions of possible hadronic acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Robert Lauer

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been one of the most widely discussed sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The recent results of Pierre Auger observatory (PAO) have indicated a possible composition change of UHECRs above…

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