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The Cherenkov Telescope Array is expected to lead to the detection of many new supernova remnants in the TeV and multi-TeV range. In addition to the individual study of each SNR, the study of these objects as a population can help…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 P. Cristofari , R. Zanin , S. Gabici , B. T. Humensky , M. Santander , R. Terrier

Modern Terrestrial Cerenkov Telescopes and Array Scintillators facing the Horizons may soon reveal far Cosmic Rays or nearer PeVs-EeVs Neutrino Showers Astronomy. Indeed UHE neutrino interactions in air, leading to Horizontal Showers, may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Fargion

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos ($E_\nu \gtrsim 10$ PeV) is a challenge that future generations of experiments are being designed and constructed to address. One promising method relies on using the Earth as a neutrino…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Claire Guépin , Frédéric Sarazin , John Krizmanic , Jacqueline Loerincs , Angela Olinto , Ashley Piccone

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, along with its primary capacity to elucidate the nuclear structure, will offer new opportunities to probe physics beyond the Standard Model coupled to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Brian Batell , Tathagata Ghosh , Tao Han , Keping Xie

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, or HAWC, is carrying out an unbiased survey of cosmic rays and gamma rays from the Northern Hemisphere between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. HAWC is currently the only high-uptime wide-field TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Segev BenZvi

Recent results from the PAMELA experiment indicate an excess in the positron spectrum above 10 GeV, but anti-proton data are consistent with the expected astrophysical backgrounds. We propose a scenario that reproduces these features. Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 Daniel J. Phalen , Aaron Pierce , Neal Weiner

We discuss in detail the physics reach of an experimental set-up where electron neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) produced in a beta-beam facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) are sent, over a distance of L~1300km, to the Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Patrick Huber

Leptoquarks arise naturally in models attempting the unification of the quark and lepton sectors of the standard model of particle physics. Such particles could be produced in the interaction of high energy quasi-horizontal cosmic neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Espirito Santo , A. Onofre , M. Paulos , M. Pimenta , J. C. Romao , B. Tome

The Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) experiment centres around a proposed next-generation underground water Cherenkov detector that will be nearly 20 times larger than the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment and use significantly improved…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Jost Migenda

The smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model. Heavy neutral leptons ($N$), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-15 Willem Verbeke

Astrophysical Very-High-Energy (VHE, >10PeV) neutrinos deliver crucial information about the sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), the composition of UHECRs, and neutrino/particle physics at highest energies. UHE-tau neutrinos…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Eliza Gazda

We re-analyze the results of the searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) by the CHARM experiment. We study HNL decay channel $N\to e^{+}e^{-}\nu/\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\nu$ and show that, in addition to the constraints on the HNL's mixings with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-25 Iryna Boiarska , Alexey Boyarsky , Oleksii Mikulenko , Maksym Ovchynnikov

A new air-showering physics may rise in next years at horizon, offering at different angles and altitudes a fine tuned filtered Cosmic Rays astrophysics and an upward Neutrino induced air-showering astronomy. Most of this opportunity arises…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Fargion

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for $\gamma$-ray astronomy at energies above 30 GeV. Thanks to its unique capabilities, CTA observations will address a plethora of open questions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-19 H. Martínez-Huerta , J. Biteau , J. Lefaucheur , M. Meyer , S. Pita , I. Vovk

Cosmic rays are energetic nuclei and elementary particles that originate from stars and intergalactic events. The interaction of these particles with the upper atmosphere produces a range of secondary particles that reach the surface of the…

Heavy neutrinos with masses in the MeV range can in principle simultaneously explain the light neutrino masses and the origin of baryonic matter in the universe. The strongest constraints on their properties come from their potential impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 N. van Remortel , M. Colomer Molla , B. Clerbaux , A. De Roeck , M. Drewes , R. Keloth , H. Sfar , S. Vercaemer , M. Verstraeten

Large liquid scintillation detectors have been generally dedicated to low energy neutrino measurements, in the MeV energy region (as for example, KamLAND and Borexino). Herein we describe the potential employment of large detectors (>1…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-25 John G. Learned

We study the phenomenology of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC in effective field theory, concentrating on $d=6$ operators with top quarks. Depending on the operator choice and HNL mass, the HNLs will be produced either from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Julian Günther , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

This work explores the potential of the proposed FASER2 experiment at the LHC to determine the properties of a discovered heavy neutral lepton (HNL), including its mass, couplings, and whether it is a Majorana or Dirac fermion. We first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Jonathan L. Feng , Alec Hewitt , Daniel La Rocco , Daniel Whiteson

We present the cosmic neutrino detecting potential of the Telescope Array for quasihorizontally downward and upward air showers initiated by very high energy neutrinos penetrating the air and the Earth respectively. We adopted model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Sasaki , Yoichi Asaoka , Masashi Jobashi