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The Tibet ASgamma experiment just reported their measurement of sub-PeV diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic disk, with the highest energy up to 957 TeV. These gamma-rays are most likely the hadronic origin by cosmic ray interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Qing Guo

Ongoing experimental efforts to detect cosmic sources of high energy neutrinos are guided by the expectation that astrophysical accelerators of cosmic ray protons would also generate neutrinos through interactions with ambient matter and/or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar , Andrew M. Taylor

The origin of PeV cosmic rays is a long-standing mystery, and ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray observations would play a crucial role in identifying it. Recently, LHAASO reported the discovery of ``dark'' gamma-ray sources that were detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kengo Tomida , Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Koki Kin , Bing Zhang

We briefly review sources of cosmic rays, their composition and spectra as well as their propagation in the galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, both regular and fluctuating. A special attention is paid to the recent results of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-09 Felix Aharonian , Andrei Bykov , Etienne Parizot , Vladimir Ptuskin , Alan Watson

The luminosity densities of high-energy cosmic radiations are studied to find connections among the various components, including high-energy neutrinos measured with IceCube and gamma rays with the Fermi satellite. Matching the cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-09 Kohta Murase , Masataka Fukugita

This is a summary of a series of lectures on the current experimental and theoretical status of our understanding of origin and nature of cosmic radiation. Specific focus is put on ultra-high energy cosmic radiation above ~10^17 eV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-03 Guenter Sigl

Cosmic rays are charged energetic particles that permeate the interstellar medium. Their sizeable energy share and penetration power makes them essential players in the dynamical and chemical processes that rule Galactic evolution, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Giada Peron , Sarah Recchia , Stefano Menchiari , Alexandre Marcowith , Andrei Bykov , Martin Pohl , Elena Amato

Most models of the origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays rely on the existence of luminous extragalactic sources. Cosmic rays escaping the galaxy where the source is located produce a sufficiently large electric current to justify the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 P. Blasi , E. Amato , M. D'Angelo

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

We review the basic ideas on the origin of cosmic rays with energy in excess of $\sim 10^{19}$ eV, in the light of the most recent observational findings. The limited statistics of events detected by the two largest experiments currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pasquale Blasi

We discuss recent models in which neutrinos, which are assumed to have mass in the eV range, originate the highest energy cosmic rays by interaction with the enhanced density in the galactic halo of the relic cosmic neutrino background. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Blanco-Pillado , R. A. Vázquez , E. Zas

It is widely believe that galactic cosmic rays are originated in supernova remnants (SNRs) where they are accelerated by diffusive shock acceleration process at supernova blast waves driven by expanding SNRs. In recent theoretical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Prabir Banik , Arunava Bhadra

We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

Very recently, the Tibet-AS$\gamma$ collaboration reported the detection of $\gamma$ rays from the galactic disk in the energy range of 100 TeV -- 1 PeV. Remarkably, many of these $\gamma$ rays were observed apart from known very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-08 Timur Dzhatdoev

Recent high energy gamma-ray observations of both single supernova remnants and superbubbles, together with observations of supernovae, star formation regions, and local cosmic ray composition, now provide an integrated framework tying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard E. Lingenfelter

One of the main purposes in $\gamma$-ray astronomy is linked to the origin of Galactic cosmic rays. Unlike cosmic rays, $\gamma$ rays can be used to probe their production sites in the Galaxy and to find which type of astrophysical sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-18 J. Devin

High energy neutrino astrophysics has come of age with the discovery by IceCube of neutrinos in the TeV to PeV energy range attributable to extragalactic sources at cosmological distances. At such energies, astrophysical neutrinos must have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 P. Meszaros

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

A fundamental question that can be answered in the next decade is: WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC PARTICLES? The discovery of the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays will reveal the workings of the most energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-03 A. V. Olinto , J. H. Adams , C. D. Dermer , J. F. Krizmanic , J. W. Mitchell , P. Sommers , T. Stanev , F. W. Stecker , Y. Takahashi

Origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays is an unsolved problem. Several proposals such as Z-burst, decay of super massive matter, susy particles as a primary, neutrino as a primary in extra dimension models exist in the literature which try…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pankaj Jain , Sukanta Panda