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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

This is a review of high energy neutrino astronomy that might be done with a kilometer-scale detector. The emphasis is on diffuse neutrinos of extragalactic origin and their relation to possible sources of the highest energy cosmic rays,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. K. Gaisser

While supernova remnants have been identified as the most likely sources of the galactic cosmic rays, no conclusive observational evidence for this association exists. We show here that IceCube has the possibility of producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Francis Halzen , Aongus O'Murchadha

We present an updated version of the {\it SimProp} Monte Carlo code to study the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays in astrophysical backgrounds computing the cosmogenic neutrino fluxes expected on earth. The study of secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-11 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

The IceCube neutrino telescope discovered PeV-energy neutrinos originating beyond our Galaxy with an energy flux that is comparable to that of GeV-energy gamma rays and EeV-energy cosmic rays. These neutrinos provide the only unobstructed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Francis Halzen

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) in the MeV regime represents the cumulative cosmic neutrino emission, predominantly due to core collapse supernovae. We estimate the DSNB flux for different Star Formation Rate Density (SFRD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Samalka Anandagoda , Dieter H. Hartmann , Marco Ajello , Abhishek Desai

Cosmic high energy neutrinos are inextricably linked to the origin of cosmic rays which is one of the major unresolved questions in astrophysics. In particular, the highest energy cosmic rays observed possess macroscopic energies and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sigl

Accretion of gas during the large scale structure formation has been thought to give rise to shocks that can accelerate cosmic rays. This process then results in an isotropic extragalactic gamma-ray emission contributing to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-30 Aleksandra Dobardzic , Tijana Prodanovic

IceCube discovered a flux of cosmic neutrinos originating in extragalactic sources with an energy density close to that in gamma rays and cosmic rays. A multimessenger campaign triggered by the coincident observation of a gamma-ray flare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 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

The future detection and measurement of the diffuse neutrino supernova background will shed light on the rate of supernovae events in the Universe, the star formation rate and the neutrino spectrum from each supernova. Little has been said…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 J. Barranco , Argelia Bernal , D. Delepine

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

Top-down models of cosmic rays produce more neutrinos than photons and more photons than protons. In these models, we reevaluate the fluxes of neutrinos associated with the highest energy cosmic rays in light of mounting evidence that they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. Barbot , M. Drees , F. Halzen , D. Hooper

In this work we use a multi-messenger approach to determine if the high energy diffuse neutrino flux observed by the IceCube Observatory can originate from $\gamma$-ray sources powered by Cosmic Rays interactions with gas. Typical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Andrea Palladino , Anatoli Fedynitch , Rasmus W. Rasmussen , Andrew M. Taylor

The detection of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range by the IceCube observatory has opened new possibilities for the study of extreme cosmic accelerators. The apparent isotropy of the neutrino arrival directions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-29 Naoko Kurahashi , Kohta Murase , Marcos Santander

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) is the weak glow of MeV neutrinos and antineutrinos from distant core-collapse supernovae. The DSNB has not been detected yet, but the Super-Kamiokande (SK) 2003 upper limit on the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-18 John F. Beacom

We study the sensitivity of the diffuse high-energy neutrino flux observed in IceCube to new-physics effects resulting in an exponential flux attenuation along the trajectory, such as invisible neutrino decay or new interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Ivan Esteban , Alberto M. Gago , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Gabriel D. Zapata

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants via diffusive shock acceleration. Though this mechanism gives fairly robust predictions for the spectrum of particles accelerated at the shock, the spectrum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-25 Stefano Gabici

Astrophysical neutrinos detected by the IceCube observatory can be of Galactic or extragalactic origin. The collective contribution of all the detected neutrinos allows us to measure the total diffuse neutrino Galactic and extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Abhishek Desai , Jessie Thwaites , Justin Vandenbroucke

A flux of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, produced by astrophysical sources at cosmological distances, is anticipated to exist and reach Earth. In this paper, we investigate the impact on the total flux, energy spectrum, and arrival…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Ivan Esteban , Alejandro Ibarra