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We present a study of the expectations for very-high-energy (VHE) to ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray and neutrino emission from interacting cosmic rays in our Galaxy as well as a comparison to the latest results for the Galactic UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Breuhaus , J. A. Hinton , V. Joshi , B. Reville , H. Schoorlemmer

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission originates from the interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar medium or radiation fields within our Galaxy, where the production of neutrinos is also anticipated. Recently, the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wenlian Li , Tian-Qi Huang , Donglian Xu , Huihai He

Resonant photopion production with the cosmic microwave background predicts a suppression of extragalactic protons above the famous Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff at about E_{GZK} ~ 5 x 10^10 GeV. Current cosmic ray data measured by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Ahlers , Andreas Ringwald , Huitzu Tu

Galactic diffuse emissions in gamma rays and neutrinos arise from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium and probe the cosmic-ray intensity away from the Solar system. Model predictions for those are influenced by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

Recently AMS-02 collaboration publish their measurements of light cosmic-ray nuclei, including lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon and oxygen. All of them reveal a prominent excess above $\sim$ 200 GV, coinciding with proton and helium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Wei Liu , Yu-hua Yao , Yi-Qing Guo

Cosmic-ray protons accumulate for cosmological times in clusters of galaxies as their typical radiative and diffusive escape times are longer than the Hubble time. Their hadronic interactions with protons of the intra-cluster medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Zandanel , Irene Tamborra , Stefano Gabici , Shin'ichiro Ando

The closest radio galaxies; Centaurus A, M87 and NGC 1275, have been detected from radio wavelengths to TeV $\gamma$-rays, and also studied as high-energy neutrino and ultra-high-energy cosmic ray potential emitters. Their spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 Nissim Fraija , Antonio Marinelli

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…

The advent of multi-messenger astronomy has provided abundant information for understanding the acceleration and particle-production mechanisms of cosmic rays. In this work, we present a unified study of cosmic gamma-ray and neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Jiangyuan Qian , Jintao Wu , Jianhong Ruan

Recent data from ATIC, CREAM and PAMELA revealed that the energy spectra of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei above 100 GeV/nucleon experience a remarkable hardening with increasing energy. This effect cannot be recovered by the conventional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Tomassetti

Cosmic-ray (CR) protons can accumulate for cosmological times in clusters of galaxies. Their hadronic interactions with protons of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generate secondary electrons, gamma-rays and high-energy neutrinos. In light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Fabio Zandanel , Irene Tamborra , Stefano Gabici , Shin'ichiro Ando

Recent direct measurements of Galactic cosmic ray spectra by balloon/space-borne detectors reveal spectral hardenings of all major nucleus species at rigidities of a few hundred GV. The all-sky diffuse gamma-ray emissions measured by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

The discovery of joint sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves has been a primary target for the LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and IceCube observatories. The joint detection of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves would…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Doğa Veske , Zsuzsa Márka , Albert Zhang

Based on the Gluon Condensation (GC) model, the relationship between the spectra of electrons, $\gamma$ rays, and neutrinos in cosmic rays can be deduced. It has been found that these particles share the same parameter, $\beta_p$, and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Jintao Wu , Jianhong Ruan

The latest results on the sky distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources have consequences for their nature and time structure. If the sources accelerate predominantly nuclei of atomic number A and charge Z and emit continuously,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Guenter Sigl

One of the fundamental issues in cosmic ray physics is to explain the nature of cosmic ray acceleration and propagation mechanisms. Thanks to the precise cosmic ray data measured by recent space experiments, we are able to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-20 Yu Wang , Juan Wu , Wei-Cheng Long

The precision measurements of the spectra of cosmic ray nuclei and leptons in recent years have revealed the existence of multiple features, such as the spectral break at $\sim 300$ GV rigidity seen by PAMELA and AMS-02 and more recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Carmelo Evoli , Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi , Roberto Aloisio

The precise observations of Galactic cosmic ray fluxes of the secondary family, such as Li, Be, B, are expected to have significant implications on our understanding of the cosmic ray origin and propagation. Here we employ the recent very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Qiang Yuan , Cheng-Rui Zhu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Da-Ming Wei

Context: Features in the spectra of primary cosmic rays (CRs) provide invaluable information on the propagation of these particles in the Galaxy. In the rigidity region around a few hundred GV, such features have been measured in the proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Serpico

We have studied the impact of cosmic-ray acceleration in SNR on the spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei in the Galaxy using a series expansion of the propagation equation, which allows us to use analytical solutions for part of the problem and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Buesching , A. Kopp , M. Pohl , R. Schlickeiser , C. Perrot , I. Grenier