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The determination of the injection composition of cosmic ray nuclei within astrophysical sources requires sufficiently accurate descriptions of the source physics and the propagation - apart from controlling astrophysical uncertainties. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Denise Boncioli , Anatoli Fedynitch , Walter Winter

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), of energy >10 EeV, arrive at the Earth regularly, but their sources, acceleration mechanisms, details of propagation through the universe, and particle composition remain mysteries. In addition, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Sijbrand de Jong

Models for the transport of high energy charged particles through strong magnetic turbulence play a key role in space and astrophysical studies, such as describing the propagation of solar energetic particles and high energy cosmic rays.…

We propose a numerical method to simulate electrohydrodynamic phenomena in charged colloidal dispersions. This method enables us to compute the time evolutions of colloidal particles, ions, and host fluids simultaneously by solving Newton,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kang Kim , Yasuya Nakayama , Ryoichi Yamamoto

In recent years, our understanding of high energy density plasmas has played an important role in improving inertial fusion confinement and in emerging new fields of physics, such as laboratory astrophysics. Every new idea required…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 P. -A. Gourdain

The unified models of astrophysical sources to account for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high-energy cosmic neutrinos with energies greater than 100 TeV have been discussed. Based on model-independent arguments, we argue that if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase

The propagation of high-energy cosmic rays through giant molecular clouds constitutes a fundamental process in astronomy and astrophysics. The diffusion of cosmic-rays through these magnetically turbulent environments is often studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia , Elizabeth Todd , Fred Adams

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are atomic nuclei from space with vastly higher energies than any other particles ever observed. Their origin and chemical composition remain a mystery. As we show here, the large- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Chen Ding , Noemie Globus , Glennys R. Farrar

Understanding the transport of energetic cosmic rays belongs to the most challenging topics in astrophysics. Diffusion due to scattering by electromagnetic fluctuations is a key process in cosmic-ray transport. The transition from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 P. Reichherzer , J. Becker Tjus , E. G. Zweibel , L. Merten , M. J. Pueschel

We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-05 Kohta Murase , Hajime Takami

The study of high energy cosmic rays is a diversified field of observational and phenomenological physics addressing questions ranging from shock acceleration of charged particles in various astrophysical objects, via transport properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Karl-Heinz Kampert

We investigate the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray nuclei (A = 1-56) from cosmologically distant sources through the cosmic radiation backgrounds. Various models for the injected composition and spectrum and of the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar , Andrew M. Taylor

Cosmic ray astronomy attempts to identify and study the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. It is unique in its reliance on charged particles as the information carriers. While no discrete source of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Paul Sommers , Stefan Westerhoff

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), particles characterized by energies exceeding $10^{18}$ eV, are generally believed to be accelerated electromagnetically in high-energy astrophysical sources. One promising mechanism of UHECR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Luca Comisso , Glennys R. Farrar , Marco S. Muzio

We show the necessity for a new approach towards comprehensive and consistent simulations of the propagation of galactic cosmic rays. Our developments are optimised for addressing the spatially 3-dimensional inhomogeneous diffusion problem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-14 M. Werner , R. Kissmann , A. W. Strong , O. Reimer

In these three lectures I discuss the present status of high-energy astroparticle physics including Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR), high-energy gamma rays, and neutrinos. The first lecture is devoted to ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-14 D. Semikoz

Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) accelerated in specific astrophysical environments have been shown to shape the energy production rate of nuclei differently from that of the secondary neutrons escaping from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Quentin Luce , Sullivan Marafico , Jonathan Biteau , Antonio Condorelli , Olivier Deligny

The propagation of cosmic rays can be described as a diffusive motion in most galactic environments. High-energy gamma-rays measured by Fermi have allowed inference of a gradient in the cosmic-ray density and spectral energy behavior in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-14 J. Dörner , P. Reichherzer , L. Merten , J. Becker Tjus , H. Fichtner , M. J. Pueschel , E. G. Zweibel

Here we discuss the latest developments in the debate, where the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray particles come from. In this brief review, we emphasize the predictions that necessarily follow from the various concepts proposed. We discuss both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Peter L. Biermann , Gustavo Medina-Tanco

We review the experimental evidences about flux and mass composition of ultra high energy cosmic rays in connection with theoretical scenarios concerning astrophysical sources. In this context, we also address the discussion about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Roberto Aloisio