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Pioneering experiments on production of hypernuclei can be performed with nuclotron beams on fixed targets, and at the future NICA facility. The peripheral collisions of relativistic ions are very promising for searching mutli-strange and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-24 A. S. Botvina

Extragalactic and galactic cosmic rays scatter with the cosmic neutrino background during propagation to Earth, yielding a flux of relic neutrinos boosted to larger energies. If an overdensity of relic neutrinos is present in galaxies, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Mar Císcar-Monsalvatje , Gonzalo Herrera , Ian M. Shoemaker

This work presents a novel cosmic-ray scattering experiment employing a Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) muon tomography system. By introducing the scattering angle between incident and outgoing cosmic-ray tracks as a key observable, this…

The recent detection of delayed, low energy emission from Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) sources confirmed the cosmological origin of the bursts and provided support for models where GRBs are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Waxman

High-energy neutrinos, arising from decays of mesons that were produced through the cosmic rays collisions with air nuclei, form unavoidable background noise in the astrophysical neutrino detection problem. The atmospheric neutrino flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-13 S. I. Sinegovsky , A. A. Kochanov , T. S. Sinegovskaya

Millicharged particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates arising in many extensions of the Standard Model. We show that, despite their tiny coupling $e_m$ to photons, millicharged dark matter (mDM) in the Earth's geomagnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Ariel Arza , Yuanlin Gong , Jing Shu , Lei Wu , Qiang Yuan , Bin Zhu

I give a brief discussion of possible sources of high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin over the energy range from $\sim 10^{12}$ eV to $\sim 10^{25}$ eV. In particular I shall review predictions of the diffuse neutrino intensity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Protheroe

We suggest the new experimental method to explore the properties of slow strange mesons at normal nuclear matter density. We show that the $K^{+}$ and $K^{-}$ mesons with extremely small momenta relative to the surrounding medium rest frame…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. T. Kiselev , V. A. Sheinkman

Recent international efforts have brought us closer to unveiling the century old mystery of the origin of cosmic rays. Cosmic ray, gamma ray, and neutrino observatories are reaching the necessary sensitivity to study the highest energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-16 Angela V. Olinto

Applying our recently developed propagation code we review extragalactic neutrino fluxes above 10^{14} eV in various scenarios and how they are constrained by current data. We specifically identify scenarios in which the cosmogenic neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg E. Kalashev , Vadim A. Kuzmin , Dmitry V. Semikoz , Guenter Sigl

While propagating from their source to the observer, ultrahigh energy cosmic rays interact with cosmological photon backgrounds and generate to the so-called "cosmogenic neutrinos". Here we study the parameter space of the cosmogenic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Angela V. Olinto

Magnetic monopole is a well-motivated class of beyond-Standard-Model particles that could provide insights into the long-standing puzzle of the quantization of electric charge. These hypothetical particles are likely to be super heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-13 Changqing Ye , Beige Liu , Zhe Cao , Lingzhi Han , Xinming Huang , Min Jiang , Dong Liu , Qing Lin , Shitian Wan , Yusheng Wu , Lei Zhao , Yue Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Zhengguo Zhao

The diffuse emission of gamma-rays and neutrinos, produced by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar matter in the Milky Way, provides valuable insights into cosmic ray propagation and Galactic processes. Emission models…

We determine the Galactic production rate of strangelets as a canonical input to calculations of the measurable cosmic ray flux of strangelets by performing simulations of strange star mergers and combining the results with recent estimates…

Starburst galaxies (SBGs) with copious massive stars and supernova (SN) explosions are the sites of active cosmic-ray production. Based on the predictions of nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration theory, we model the cosmic-ray proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Ji-Hoon Ha , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang

We study interactions of cosmological relics, $X$, of mass $m$ and electric charge $qe$ in the galaxy, including thermalization with the interstellar medium, diffusion through inhomogeneous magnetic fields and Fermi acceleration by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-12 David Dunsky , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

Searches for astronomical neutrino sources and weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs) using the Super-Kamiokande detector have been performed. We select the neutrino-induced upward muon events for the first 4 years, which is already…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamiokande Collaboration

We revise the cosmological phenomenology of Macroscopic Dark Matter (MDM) candidates, also commonly dubbed as Macros. A possible signature of MDM is the capture of baryons from the cosmological plasma in the pre-recombination epoch, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi

Recent cosmic ray (CR) measurements have revealed unexpected anomalies in secondary CRs, namely deviations from the predictions of the so-called standard Galactic CR paradigm regarding the composition and energy spectra of the products of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian

We demonstrate that superconducting radio-frequency cavities can be used to create and detect millicharged particles and are capable of extending the reach to couplings several orders of magnitude beyond other laboratory based constraints.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Asher Berlin , Anson Hook