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We report on a search for electromagnetic and/or hadronic showers (cascades) induced by a diffuse flux of neutrinos with energies between 5 TeV and 300 TeV from extraterrestrial sources. Cascades may be produced by matter interactions of…

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Atmospheric muons are one of the main backgrounds for current Water- and Ice-Cherenkov neutrino telescopes designed to detect astrophysical neutrinos. The inclusive fluxes of atmospheric muons and neutrinos from hadronic interactions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-15 Stephan Meighen-Berger , Mingyang Li

The IceCube experiment recently detected the first flux of high-energy neutrinos in excess of atmospheric backgrounds. We examine whether these neutrinos originate from within the same extragalactic sources as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew D. Kistler , Todor Stanev , Hasan Yuksel

The recent detection of the ultra-high energy neutrino KM3-230213A by KM3NeT/ARCA marks the first observation of an astrophysical neutrino with energy above 100 PeV, opening a new window to the ultra-high energy Universe. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Per Arne Sevle Myhr

In order to estimate the possibility to observe exotic physics in a neutrino telescope, it is essential to first understand the flux of atmospheric neutrinos, muons and dimuons. We study the production of these leptons by high-energy cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 J. I. Illana , M. Masip , D. Meloni

In a strong magnetic field, a high-energy photon can be absorbed and then produce an electron-positron pair. The produced electron/positron will in turn radiate a high-energy photon via synchrotron radiation, which then initiates a cascade.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-04 Jie-Shuang Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Felix Aharonian , Zi-Gao Dai

We investigate the electromagnetic cascade initiated by injection of very high energy photons in the early Universe and calculate the cascade spectrum by solving a set of Boltzmann equations numerically. In the calculation we take account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Kawasaki , T. Moroi

High energy neutrinos can be produced by interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in the dense radiation fields of their sources as well as off the cosmic backgrounds when they propagate through the universe. Multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Daniel Biehl , Denise Boncioli , Anatoli Fedynitch , Leonel Morejon , Walter Winter

The atmospheric neutrino-induced upward muon flux are calculated by using the multi-component primary energy spectrum, CORSIKA EAS simulation code for the reproduction of the atmospheric neutrino spectra and improved parton model for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Ter-Antonyan , P. L. Biermann

We summarize recent results of the observations of high (1 TeV-100 PeV) and ultrahigh ($\geq 100$ PeV) energy neutrinos, including the detection of a diffuse cosmic high-energy neutrino background, the identification of the first neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

Neutrinos are the best candidates to test the extreme Universe and ideas beyond the Standard Model of particle Physics. Once produced, neutrinos do not suffer any kind of attenuation by intervening radiation fields like the Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Aloisio

The baryonic mass composition of ultrahigh energy ($\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV) cosmic rays (UHECRs) at injection accompanied by their interactions on universal photon backgrounds during propagation directly governs the UHECR flux on the Earth.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Saikat Das , Soebur Razzaque , Nayantara Gupta

Superconducting cosmic strings naturally emit highly boosted charge carriers from cusps. This occurs when a cosmic string or a loop moves through a magnetic field and develops an electric current. The charge carriers and the products of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-08 Veniamin Berezinsky , Ken D. Olum , Eray Sabancilar , Alexander Vilenkin

A method of simulation of particle cascades induced by ultra-high (>10$^{15}$ eV) and extremely high (>10$^{18}$ eV) energy neutrinos in water or other dense medium has been elaborated. The lateral spread of high-energy particles in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-24 Igor Zheleznykh , Leonid Dedenko , Grigorii Dedenko , Anna Mironovich

On the 13th February 2023 the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope observed a track-like event compatible with a ultra-high-energy muon with an estimated energy of 120 PeV, produced by a neutrino with an even higher energy, making it the most energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-13 The KM3NeT collaboration

We calculate the yield of high energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical sources with negligible magnetic fields varying their interaction depth from nearly transparent to opaque. We take into account the scattering of secondaries on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 M. Kachelriess , R. Tomas

Neutrinos are a very promising messenger at tens of EeV and above. They can be produced by several channels, namely as by products of hadronic interactions at the sources, as the main products of the decay of super massive particles and, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco , K. Asano , D. Cline , T. Ebisuzaki , S. Inoue , P. Lipari , A. Santangelo , K. Shinozaki , G. Sigl , Y. Takahashi , M. Teshima

Recently, the KM3NeT experiment reported the detection of a neutrino with exceptionally high energy E = 220 PeV, whose origin remains unclear. The corresponding value of the neutrino flux is in tension with the results of other high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 M. Yu. Kuznetsov , N. A. Petrov , Y. S. Savchenko

We report on a search for electro-magnetic and/or hadronic showers (cascades) induced by high energy neutrinos in the data collected with the AMANDA II detector during the year 2000. The observed event rates are consistent with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 the AMANDA Collaboration , M. Ackermann

We present a calculation of the production of neutrinos during propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from their astrophysical sources to us. Photoproduction interactions are modeled with the event generator SOPHIA that represents…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Ralph Engel , David Seckel , Todor Stanev