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Northern hemisphere TeV gamma-ray observatories such as Milagro and Tibet AS$\gamma$ have demonstrated the importance of all-sky instruments by discovering previously unidentified sources that may be the PeVatrons producing cosmic rays up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Francis Halzen , Alexander Kappes , Aongus O'Murchadha

The injection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the intergalactic medium leads to the production of a GeV-TeV gamma-ray halo centered on the source location, through the production of a high electromagnetic component in the interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Martin Lemoine

An estimate of the expected photon flux above $10^{17}~$eV from the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the matter in the Galactic disk is presented. Uncertainties arising from the distribution of the gas in the disk, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 Corinne Bérat , Carla Bleve , Olivier Deligny , François Montanet , Pierpaolo Savina , Zoé Torrès

The Sun is a bright source of GeV gamma rays, due to cosmic rays interacting with solar matter and photons. Key aspects of the underlying processes remain mysterious. The emission in the TeV range, for which there are neither observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Bei Zhou , Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory~(LHAASO) is one of the most sensitive gamma-ray detector arrays currently operating at TeV and PeV energies. Recently the LHAASO experiment detected ultra-high-energy~(UHE; $E_{\gamma}\gtrsim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Chengyi Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

The recent measurement by LHAASO of gamma-ray emission extending up to 100s of TeV from multiple Galactic sources represents a major observational step forward in the search for the origin of the Galactic cosmic rays. The burning question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 M. Breuhaus , B. Reville , J. A. Hinton

This work investigates the origin of the TeV emission detected by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) from NGC~4278, a galaxy hosting a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (LLAGN). Considering two plausible scenarios,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Chengchao Yuan , Ruo-Yu Liu

The hypothesis of two different components in the high-energy neutrino flux observed with IceCube has been proposed to solve the tension among different data-sets and to account for an excess of neutrino events at 100 TeV. In addition to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-03 Ariane Dekker , Marco Chianese , Shin'ichiro Ando

In the frame of indirect dark matter searches we investigate the flux of high-energy $\gamma$-ray photons produced by annihilation of dark matter in caustics within our Galaxy under the hypothesis that the bulk of dark matter is composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

We estimate the fluxes of very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays and neutrinos from the Galactic Center which are by-products of the hadronic interactions between primary protons which are accelerated up to $\sim 10^{19}$eV and ambient matter.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shigehiro Nagataki , Keitaro Takahashi

The Tibet AS$\gamma$ collaboration has reported a diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission signal from the Galactic Plane. We consider the possibility that the diffuse emission from the outer Galactic Plane at the highest energies is produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-03 G. Giacinti , T. Abounnasr , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz

Experimental refinements and technical innovations in the field of extensive air shower telescopes have enabled measurements of Galactic cosmic-ray interactions in the sub-PeV range, providing new avenues for the search for new physics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-19 Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore

Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure produces diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, and in general this signal dominates over the smooth halo signal at angles greater than a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-02 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

The diffuse TeV emission detected from the inner $\sim2^\circ$ of the Galaxy appears to be strongly correlated with the distribution of molecular gas along the Galactic ridge. Although it is not yet entirely clear whether the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Fulvio Melia , Marco Fatuzzo

We provide our estimates of the intensity of the gamma-ray emission with an energy near 0.1 TeV generated in inrergalactic space in the interactions of cosmic rays with background emissions. We assume that the cosmic ray sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 A. V. Uryson

The origin of the knee in cosmic ray spectrum remains to be an unsolved fundamental problem. There are various kinds of models which predict different break positions and the compositions of the knee. In this work, we suggest to use diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Q. Guo , H. B. Hu , Q. Yuan , Z. Tian , X. J. Gao

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

During the last decades, increasingly precise astronomical observations of the Galactic Centre (GC) region at radio, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths laid the foundations to a detailed understanding of the high energy astroparticle physics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-25 Christopher van Eldik

Recent observations by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) have paved the way for the observational detection of PeVatrons in the Milky Way Galaxy, thus revolutionizing the field of $\gamma$-ray astrophysics. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-02 Agnibha De Sarkar , Nayantara Gupta

The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported evidence for a high-energy extraterrestrial neutrino flux. During two years of operation 28 events with energies between 30 TeV and 1.2 PeV were observed while only 10.6 events were expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Markus Ahlers , Kohta Murase