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Within the framework of general $U(1)$ scenario, we demonstrate that the ultra high energy neutrinos recently detected by KM3NeT could originate from a decaying right handed neutrino dark matter (DM), with a mass of 440 PeV. Considering DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-16 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das , Prantik Sarmah

Recent measurements of the spectrum and composition of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays suggest that their extragalactic sources may be accelerating heavy nuclei in addition to protons. This can suppress the cosmogenic neutrino flux relative to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Subir Sarkar

We study the possibility of the highest energy neutrino event with 220 PeV energy, detected recently by the KM3NeT experiment to be originating from heavy dark matter (DM) decay. Considering a heavy right handed neutrino (RHN) DM for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Debasish Borah , Nayan Das , Nobuchika Okada , Prantik Sarmah

Many galactic and extragalactic astrophysical sources are currently considered promising candidates as high energy neutrino emitters. Astrophysical neutrinos can be detected as upward-going muons produced in charged-current interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The MACRO Collaboration

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 scattering of extremely energetic cosmic rays with both cosmic microwave background and extragalactic background light, can produce $\mathcal{O}(10^{18} \,{\rm eV})$ neutrinos, known as cosmogenic neutrinos. These neutrinos are the only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Luighi P. S. Leal , Daniel Naredo-Tuero , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

The observation of high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos is one of the most promising future options to increase our knowledge on non-thermal processes in the universe. Neutrinos are e.g. unavoidably produced in environments where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrich F. Katz

The KM3NeT collaboration recently reported the detection of an ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino event, dubbed KM3-230213A. This is the first observed neutrino event with energy of the order of $\mathcal{O}(100) {\rm PeV}$, the origin of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Sarif Khan , Jongkuk Kim , Pyungwon Ko

We investigate a scenario in which the recently observed ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A, with a median energy of approximately 220 PeV, as well as the high-energy neutrinos detected by IceCube Observatory, originate from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Prabhav Singh , Mansi Dhuria , Nathanael Varghese Job

The production sites of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos remain uncertain, though growing evidence suggests a connection to relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present a detailed analysis of the recent PeV neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , M. Perucho , J. M. Martí

When ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interact with ambient photon backgrounds, a flux of extremely-high-energy (EHE), so-called cosmogenic, neutrinos is produced. The observation of these neutrinos with IceCube can probe the nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Maximilian Meier , Brian A. Clark

An extremely energetic muon has been recently detected by the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT), indicating the observation of a neutrino with the estimated energy of $\left( 2.2^{+5.7}_{-1.0} \right)\times 10^{17}$~eV. Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Polina Kivokurtseva , Sergey Troitsky

The KM3NeT Collaboration has recently reported the detection of an extraordinary ultra-high-energy neutrino event with an energy of 220 PeV. Ultrahigh energy neutrinos and gamma-rays are co-produced in ultrahigh energy cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Angelina Sherman , Nestor Mirabal , David Guevel , Ke Fang , Kohta Murase , Elizabeth Hays

Cosmic rays escaping the Milky-Way disk interact with circumgalactic gas which fills the virial volume of our Galaxy. These interactions should produce guaranteed fluxes of energetic diffuse neutrinos and photons observable at the Earth.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-28 Oleg Kalashev , Nickolay Martynenko , Sergey Troitsky

High energy neutrinos can be injected in the early Universe from the decay or annihilation of long lived primordial relics. We analyse the possibility that the ultrahigh energy neutrino event recently observed by the KM3NeT neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Nicolas Grimbaum Yamamoto , Thomas Hambye

The interaction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with pervasive photon fields generates associated cosmogenic fluxes of neutrinos and photons due to photohadronic and photonuclear processes taking place in the intergalactic medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-07 Rafael Alves Batista , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Bruno Lago , Kumiko Kotera

We propose an explanation for the recently reported ultra-high-energy neutrino signal at KM3NeT, which shows no clear association with known astrophysical sources. While decaying dark matter in the Galactic Center is a natural candidate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Yongsoo Jho , Seong Chan Park , Chang Sub Shin

Recent measurements of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos are briefly reviewed. With several new large scale observatories nearing completion or becoming fully operational only very recently, a large body of high quality and high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Karl-Heinz Kampert

Atmospheric muons are the most frequently observed form of cosmic radiation. Despite this, the existence of the muon flux component produced in decays of short-lived parent particles, called prompt muon flux still awaits experimental…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-07 Piotr Kalaczyński

Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) protons interacting with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produce UHE electrons and gamma-rays that in turn initiate electromagnetic cascades on CMB and infrared photons. As a result, a background of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Berezinsky , A. Gazizov , M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko