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The distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions appears to be nearly isotropic except for a dipole moment of order $6 \times (E/10~\mathrm{EeV})$ per cent. Nonetheless, at the highest energies, as the number of possible…

We investigate the possibility that near future observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can unveil their local source distribution, which reflects the observed local structures if their origins are astrophysical objects. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

We present the results of simulations of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) propagation in the Galactic magnetic field (GMF). Different assumptions on the large-scale GMF structure and/or primary particle lead to distinctly different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-08 S. Vorobiov , M. Hussain , D. Veberič

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

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cut-off provide us with a unique opportunity to understand the universe at extreme energies. Secondary GZK photons and GZK neutrinos associated with the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Sovan Chakraborty , Poonam Mehta , Prantik Sarmah

The origins of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain an open question. Several attempts have been made to cross-correlate the arrival directions of the UHECRs with catalogs of potential sources, but no definite conclusion has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Alexander Khanin , Daniel J. Mortlock

There is mounting evidence from observations of long duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs), supernova remnants (SNR) and the supernova (SN) explosion 1987A, that SN explosions eject highly relativistic bipolar jets of plasmoids (cannonballs) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar

Recent evidence from the Pierre Auger Observatory suggests a transition, at 5 EeV-10EeV in the composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), from protons to heavier nuclei such as iron. I consider here the implications of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-20 Tsvi Piran

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) can be a signal from very early (post-inflationary) Universe. At this cosmological epoch Topological Defects (TD) and long-lived suprheavy (SH) particles are expected to be naturally and effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Berezinsky

The sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are still one of the main open questions in high-energy astrophysics. If UHECRs are accelerated in astrophysical sources, they are expected to produce high-energy photons and neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-27 A. Barbano

Ultra high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to be protons accelerated in magnetized plasma outflows of extra-Galactic sources. The acceleration of protons to ~10^{20} eV requires a source power L>10^{47} erg/s. The absence of steady…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

Detecting neutrinos and photons is crucial to identifying the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), especially for transient sources. We focus on ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emission from transient sources such as gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-18 Kohta Murase

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have been tried to be related to the most varied and powerful sources known in the universe. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are natural candidates. Here, we argue that cosmic rays can be accelerated by large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-07 O. Esquivel , D. Page

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

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

High energy Astroparticles include Cosmic Ray, gamma ray and neutrinos, all of them coming from the universe. The origin and production, acceleration and propagation mechanisms of ultrahigh-energy CR (up to $10^{20}$ eV) are still unknown.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-14 Karen Salomé Caballero Mora

The Maximum Likelihood Method is generalized to include effects important for UHECR applications. The new approach can incorporate source distance constraints implied by the observed CR energy and can allow for energy uncertainties,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-02 Glennys R. Farrar

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics are performed at accelerators worldwide. Although having poorer detection capabilities and large beam uncertainties, ultra high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) experiments present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 V. Cardoso , M. C. Espirito Santo , A. Onofre , M. Paulos , M. Pimenta , J. C. Romao , B. Tome

After over 60 years, the powerful engines that accelerate ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) to the formidable energies at which we observe them from Earth remain mysterious. Assuming standard physics, we expect UHECR sources to lie…

The cosmic ray spectrum has been shown to extend well beyond 10^{20}eV. With nearly 20 events observed in the last 40 years, it is now established that particles are accelerated or produced in the universe with energies near 10^{21}eV. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 X. Bertou , P. Billoir , O. Deligny , C. Lachaud , A. Letessier-Selvon