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We introduce the new version of SimProp, a Monte Carlo code for simulating the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in intergalactic space. This version, SimProp v2r3, allows the choice of many more models for the extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Aurelio Grillo , Sergio Petrera , Francesco Salamida

We present an updated version of the SimProp Monte Carlo code: a simulation scheme to study the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through diffuse extragalactic background radiation. The new version of the code presents two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-07 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

A new Monte Carlo simulation code for the propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays is presented. The results of this simulation scheme are tested by comparison with results of another Monte Carlo computation as well as with the results…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-04 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) nuclei propagating in cosmological radiation backgrounds produce secondary particles detectable at Earth. SimProp is a one dimensional code for extragalactic propagation of UHECR nuclei, inspired by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-16 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. Di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

Solving the question of the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) requires the development of detailed simulation tools in order to interpret the experimental data and draw conclusions on the UHECR universe. CRPropa is a public…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 Rafael Alves Batista , Martin Erdmann , Carmelo Evoli , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Daniel Kuempel , Gero Mueller , Günter Sigl , Arjen Van Vliet , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

We compare two techniques for simulation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) propagation, the Monte Carlo approach and method based on solving transport equations in one dimension. For the former we adopt publicly available tool…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-04 O. E. Kalashev , E. Kido

The study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) at Earth cannot prescind from the study of their propagation in the Universe. In this paper, we present HERMES, the \emph{ad hoc} Monte Carlo code we have developed for the realistic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-21 Manlio De Domenico

We present an updated version of the {\it SimProp} Monte Carlo code to study the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays in astrophysical backgrounds computing the cosmogenic neutrino fluxes expected on earth. The study of secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-11 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

For the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) we developed a new approach to simulating UHECRs from an arbitrary number of sources based on Monte Carlo technique. The method consists of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-15 Klaus Dolag , Martin Erdmann , Gero Müller , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have long been assumed to entirely consist of iron and/or lighter atomic nuclei, and this assumption has been hard-coded in a great deal of software for UHECR simulations and data analysis. However, in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Armando di Matteo

The results of simulations of the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have intrinsic uncertainties due to poorly known physical quantities and approximations used in the codes. We quantify the uncertainties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 Rafael Alves Batista , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Arjen van Vliet , David Walz

The landscape of high- and ultra-high-energy astrophysics has changed in the last decade, largely due to the inflow of data collected by large-scale cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino observatories. At the dawn of the multimessenger era,…

To answer the fundamental questions concerning the origin and nature of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), it is important to confront data with simulated astrophysical scenarios. These scenarios should include detailed information on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 R. Alves Batista , M. Erdmann , C. Evoli , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kuempel , G. Müller , G. Sigl , A. van Vliet , D. Walz , T. Winchen

The interactions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in extragalactic space with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and extragalactic background light (EBL) can generate high-energy neutrinos and photons. Simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Rafael Alves Batista , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Arjen van Vliet

CRPropa is a Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of (ultra-) high-energy particles in the Universe, including cosmic rays, gamma rays, electrons, and neutrinos. It covers energies from ZeV down to GeV for gamma rays and…

Although the recent experimental efforts to improve the observation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) above $10^{18}$ eV, the origin and the composition of such particles is still unknown. In this work, we present the novel Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-17 Manlio De Domenico , Haris Lyberis , Mariangela Settimo

We use an updated version of {\it SimProp}, a Monte Carlo simulation scheme for the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, to compute cosmogenic neutrino fluxes expected on Earth in various scenarios. These fluxes are compared with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

The landscape of high- and ultra-high-energy astrophysics has changed in the last decade, in large part owing to the inflow of high-quality data collected by present cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino observatories. At the dawn of the…

With the newest version of our Monte Carlo code for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) propagation, CRPropa 3, the flux of neutrinos and photons due to interactions of UHECRs with extragalactic background light can be predicted. Together…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Arjen van Vliet

The interpretation of experimental data of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 10^17 eV is still under controversial debate. The development and improvement of numerical tools to propagate UHECRs in galactic and extragalactic space…

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