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Cosmic ray bursts (CRBs) from mergers or accretion induced collapse of neutron stars that hit an Earth-like planet closer than $\sim 1 kpc$ from the explosion produce lethal fluxes of atmospheric muons at ground level, underground and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Arnon Dar , Ari Laor , Nir J. Shaviv

We shortly discuss several astrophysical scenarios leading to cosmic ray acceleration up to extremely high energies reaching the scale of 10^{20} eV. The processes suggested in the literature include acceleration at relativistic jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 M. Ostrowski

The recently observed data by AMS-02 clearly confirms that the positron flux rises with energy and shows a peak near a few hundred GeV. This rising positron flux cannot be explained by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar hydrogen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Agnibha De Sarkar , Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

Ambient radiation background contributed by the penetrating cosmic ray particles and the radionuclides present in the rock materials have been measured at an underground laboratory located inside a mine at 555 m depth. The laboratory is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Sayan Ghosh , Shubham Dutta , Naba Kumar Mondal , Satyajit Saha

We discuss the contribution of proton photoproduction interactions on the isotropic infrared/optical background to the cosmic neutrino fluxes. This contribution has a strong dependence on the proton injection energy spectrum, and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Todor Stanev

In the current paper, we analyzed the variation of cosmic radiation flux with elevation, time of the year and ambient temperature with the help of a portable cosmic muon detector, the construction of which was completed by a team from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-02 Nepal Ramesh , Martin Hawron , Clayton Martin , Abdel Bachri

Neutron stars are associated with diverse physical phenomena that take place in conditions characterized by ultrahigh densities as well as intense gravitational, magnetic, and radiation fields. Understanding the properties and interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Feryal Ozel

The study of secondary particles produced by the cosmic-ray interaction in the Earth's atmosphere is very crucial as these particles mainly constitute the background counts produced in the high-energy detectors at balloon and satellite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Ritabrata Sarkar , Abhijit Roy , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Cosmic rays are the most outstanding example of accelerated particles. They are about 1\% of the total mass of the Universe, so that cosmic rays would represent by far the most important energy transformation process of the Universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

An analysis is made of the manner in which the cosmic ray intensity at Earth has varied over its existence and its possible relevance to both the origin and the evolution of life. Much of the analysis relates to the 'high energy' cosmic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

Interactions of cosmic ray protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons in the interstellar medium in the inner part of the Milky Way produce a $\gamma$-ray flux from the Galactic Ridge. If the $\gamma$-ray emission is dominated by proton and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-15 A. Albert , S. Alves , M. André , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , J. Aublin , B. Baret , S. Basa , Y. Becherini , B. Belhorma , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Bissinger , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , S. Campion , A. Capone , L. Caramete , F. Carenini , J. Carr , V. Carretero , S. Celli , L. Cerisy , M. Chabab , T. N. Chau , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , B. De Martino , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , T. van Eeden , D. van Eijk , S. El Hedri , N. El Khayati , A. Enzenhöfer , M. Fasano , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , F. Filippini , L. Fusco , S. Gagliardini , J. García , C. Gatius Oliver , P. Gay , N. Geißelbrecht , H. Glotin , R. Gozzini , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , C. Guidi , L. Haegel , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , F. Huang , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , B. Jisse-Jung , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , A. Lazo , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , S. Le Stum , D. Lopez-Coto , S. Loucatos , L. Maderer , J. Manczak , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , R. Muller , L. Nauta , S. Navas , A. Neronov , E. Nezri , B. Ó Fearraigh , A. Păun , G. E. Păvălaş , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , P. Piattelli , C. Poirè , V. Popa , T. Pradier , N. Randazzo , D. Real , S. Reck , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , A. Sánchez-Losa , A. Saina , F. Salesa Greus , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , D. Savchenko , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , F. Schüssler , J. Seneca , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , S. J. Tingay , B. Vallage , G. Vannoye , V. Van Elewyck , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

Ultrahigh energy neutrons and pions are likely to be produced in particle interactions inside cosmic ray sources and subsequently decay to neutrinos and other secondary particles ($\pi^\pm \rightarrow \mu^\pm\nu_\mu(\bar \nu_\mu),\mu^\pm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Reetanjali Moharana , Nayantara Gupta

Cosmic rays may scatter off dark matter particles in active galactic nuclei, where both the densities of cosmic rays and dark matter are expected to be very large. These scatterings could yield a flux of boosted dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 R. Andrew Gustafson , Gonzalo Herrera , Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Kohta Murase , Ian M. Shoemaker

Two extreme events in the universe, fast radio bursts (FRBs) and cosmic rays (CRs), could be correlated, where FRBs with extreme field strength near their sources may contribute to CRs. This study investigates localized particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Lin Yu , Tianxing Hu , Zhiyu Lei , Xiangyan An , Dong Wu , Suming Weng , Min Chen , Jie Zhang , Zhengming Sheng

The results obtained by studying the background of neutrons produced by cosmic-ray muons in underground experimental facilities intended for rare-event searches and in surrounding rock are presented. The types of this rock may include…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-21 K. V. Manukovsky , O. G. Ryazhskaya , N. M. Sobolevsky , A. V. Yudin

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy gamma-rays and are considered to be promising candidates to be sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos as well. We present and discuss various models for ion acceleration and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-13 Kohta Murase , Floyd W. Stecker

In the Coulomb field of nucleus cut off on it size, besides usual atomic states, there are additional ones. These anomalous states are deep (in the range of $10\,MeV$) in the Dirac sea and can exist solely during a macroscopic acceleration…

General Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 B. Ivlev

The observation by the BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are distributed isotropically around the Earth but nonuniformly in distance has led to the widespread conclusion that GRBs are most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. E. Thorsett

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

Some generalizations of the relation between high-energy astrophysical neutrino and cosmic ray fluxes are obtained, taking into account present results on the cosmic ray spectrum and composition as well as a more realistic modeling of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-06 Esteban Roulet