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In recent years, radio detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), with energies above $10^{18}$ eV, has become an established technique. The radio emissions can be simulated with high accuracy using Monte Carlo codes such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Arsène Ferrière

To understand the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, defined to be above 10^18 eV), it is required to model in a realistic way their propagation in the Universe. UHECRs can interact with low energy radio, microwave, infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Armengaud , G. Sigl , T. Beau , F. Miniati

The composition of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays E>10^17 eV is still unknown. The observation of UHE photons would extend the observed electromagnetic spectrum to highest energy and open a new channel for multimessenger observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-18 Daniel Kuempel , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Markus Risse

The identification of ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources is one of the open challenges of high-energy astrophysics. As charged particles travel through the Universe, they are deflected by extragalactic magnetic fields and lose energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Nadine Bourriche , Francesca Capel , Nicole Hartmann

We present CRPropa 3.3, the latest release of the publicly available Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of high-energy particles in astrophysical environments. This version introduces significant extensions that enables…

We present a new simulation engine for fast generation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray data based on parametrizations of common assumptions of UHECR origin and propagation. Implemented are deflections in unstructured turbulent extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-09 Hans-Peter Bretz , Martin Erdmann , Peter Schiffer , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

We discuss the problem of ultra high energy particles propagation in astrophysical backgrounds. We present two different computational schemes based on both kinetic and Monte Carlo approaches. The kinetic approach is an analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-31 R. Aloisio

We present a calculation of nuclei propagation with energies above 1 EeV in the intergalactic photon field. The calculation is based on a Monte Carlo approach for the nucleus-photon interaction as well as the intergalactic magnetic field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Tokonatsu Yamamoto , Keiichi Mase , Masahiro Takeda , Naoto Sakaki , Masahiro Teshima

Ultra high energy photons play an important role as an independent probe of the photo-pion production mechanism by UHE cosmic rays. Their observation, or non-observation, may constrain astrophysical scenarios for the origin of UHECRs and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariangela Settimo , Manlio De Domenico

We present the simulation framework CRPropa version 3 designed for efficient development of astrophysical predictions for ultra-high energy particles. Users can assemble modules of the most relevant propagation effects in galactic and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 Rafael Alves Batista , Andrej Dundovic , Martin Erdmann , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Daniel Kuempel , Gero Müller , Guenter Sigl , Arjen van Vliet , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

We report the results of 3-D simulations of non-diffusive propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) (E > 10^{20} eV) through the intergalactic and extended halo media. We quantify the expected angular and temporal correlations…

In this paper we describe a new release of the PRESHOWER program, a tool for Monte Carlo simulation of propagation of ultra-high energy photons in the magnetic field of the Earth. The PRESHOWER program is designed to calculate magnetic pair…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-28 Piotr Homola , Ralph Engel , Agata Pysz , Henryk Wilczyński

In this paper, we used the Monte Carlo code CRPropa version 2.0 to simulate the propagation of UHE cosmic rays. In the simulation, uniform cosmic ray sources with spectral indices of {\alpha} = 1.4, {\alpha} = 2 and Emax = 1021 eV for pure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-15 Gohar Rastegarzade , Bahare Parvizi

The astrophysical interpretation of recent experimental observations of cosmic rays relies increasingly on Monte Carlo simulations of cosmic ray propagation and acceleration. Depending on the energy range of interest, several different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 R. Alves Batista , J. Becker Tjus , A. Dundovic , M. Erdmann , C. Heiter , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kuempel , L. Merten , G. Müller , G. Sigl , A. v. Vliet , D. Walz , T. Winchen , M. Wirtz

We present numerical simulations on propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) above $10^{19}$ eV in a structured extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF) and simulate their arrival distributions at the earth. We use the IRAS PSCz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hajime Takami , Hiroyuki Yoshiguchi , Katsuhiko Sato

Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) may interact with photon backgrounds and thus the universe is opaque to their propagation. Many Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) theories predict a dilation of the expected horizon from which UHECRs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 Marco Danilo Claudio Torri , Lorenzo Caccianiga , Armando di Matteo , Andrea Maino , Lino Miramonti

The Galactic cosmic-ray propagation code GALPROP is designed to make predictions of many kinds of data self-consistently, including direct cosmic-ray measurements, gamma rays and synchrotron radiation. In the decade since its conception it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-06 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson , E. Orlando , S. W. Digel

We use the CRPropa code to simulate the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (with energy $\geq 10^{18} \rm eV$ and pure proton composition) through extragalactic magnetic fields that have been simulated with the cosmological ENZO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-01 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Guenter Sigl , Andrej Dundovic

It is likely that ultra-high energy cosmic rays contain a significant component of heavy or intermediate mass nuclei. The propagation of ultra-high energy nuclei through cosmic radiation backgrounds is more complicated than that of protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar , Andrew M. Taylor

We present results of elaborate four-dimensional simulations of the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), which are based on a realistic astrophysical scenario. The distribution of the arrival directions of the UHECR is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-19 David Wittkowski , Karl-Heinz Kampert