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We point out that relic neutrinos from the Big Bang may induce the parametric fluorescence in atomic or molecular systems, which offers a novel way to discover cosmic neutrino background. By coherently scattering with molecular energy…

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In the standard picture of galactic cosmic rays, a diffuse flux of high-energy gamma-rays and neutrinos is produced from inelastic collisions of cosmic ray nuclei with the interstellar gas. The neutrino flux is a guaranteed signal for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Georg Schwefer , Philipp Mertsch , Christopher Wiebusch

Measurements of the arrival directions of cosmic rays have not revealed their sources. High energy neutrino telescopes attempt to resolve the problem by detecting neutrinos whose directions are not scrambled by magnetic fields. The key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francis Halzen

The short review of theoretical aspects of ultra high energy (UHE) neutrinos. The accelerator sources, such as Supernovae remnants, Gamma Ray Bursts, AGN etc are discussed. The top-down sources include Topological Defects (TDs), Superheavy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-04 V. Berezinsky

More than a decade ago, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory discovered a diffuse flux of 10 TeV-10 PeV neutrinos from our Universe. This flux of unknown origin most likely emanates from an extragalactic population of neutrino sources, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Kathrine Mørch Groth , Markus Ahlers

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

Extragalactic background of high energy neutrinos arising from the interactions of cosmic ray protons with far-infrared extragalactic background radiation is calculated. The main assumption is that the cosmic ray spectrum at energies higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Bugaev , A. Misaki , K. Mitsui

As ultra-high energy cosmic ray protons propagate through the universe, they undergo photo-meson interactions with the cosmic microwave background, generating the `cosmogenic' neutrino flux. If a substantial fraction of the cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 Dan Hooper , Andrew Taylor , Subir Sarkar

The observation of neutrinos from cosmic accelerators will be revolutionary. High energy neutrinos are closely connected to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and their sources. Cosmic ray sources are likely to produce neutrinos and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Angela V. Olinto , Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard

Blazar emission of gamma rays and cosmic ray production of gamma rays in gas-rich clusters have been proposed recently as alternative sources of the high energy extragalactic diffuse gamma ray background radiation. We show that these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Arnon Dar , Nir J. Shaviv

In this review we motivate ultrahigh energy neutrino searches and their connection to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. We give an overview of neutrino production mechanisms and their potential sources. Several model-independent benchmarks of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Marco Stein Muzio

Core-collapse supernovae are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, emitting thermal neutrinos that carry away the majority of the gravitational binding energy released. These neutrinos create a diffuse supernova neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-09 Shin'ichiro Ando , Nick Ekanger , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Yusuke Koshio

We discuss briefly the potential sources of high energy astrophysical neutrinos and show estimates of the neutrino fluxes that they can produce. A special attention is paid to the connection between the highest energy cosmic rays and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Todor Stanev

The diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is the constant flux of neutrinos and antineutrinos emitted by all past core collapses in the observable Universe. We study the potential to extract information on the neutrino lifetime from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-29 Pilar Iváñez-Ballesteros , M. Cristina Volpe

The observed flux of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) guarantees the presence of high-energy cosmogenic neutrinos that are produced via photo-hadronic interactions of CRs propagating through intergalactic space. This flux of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

Recently, the MILAGRO collaboration reported on the detection of a diffuse multi-TeV emission from a region of the Galactic disk close to the inner Galaxy. The emission is in excess of what is predicted by conventional models for cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 S. Gabici , A. M. Taylor , R. J. White , S. Casanova , F. A. Aharonian

Present and future observations of supernova relic neutrinos (SRNs), i.e., a cosmological neutrino background from past core-collapse supernova explosions, potentially give us useful information concerning various fields of astrophysics,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin'ichiro Ando , Katsuhiko Sato

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…

Using the redshift evolution of the cosmic gas, as inferred from QSO absorption line studies, we calculate the past supernova rate and the relic supernova neutrino background. Using this new technique we find the predicted relic neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Robert A. Malaney

UHE cosmic neutrino interaction with the cosmic neutrino background (CnuB) is expected to produce absorption dips in the UHE neutrino flux at energies above the threshold for Z-boson resonant production. The observation of these dips would…

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