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We introduce the new version of SimProp, a Monte Carlo code for simulating the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in intergalactic space. This version, SimProp v2r4, together with an overall improvement of the code capabilities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Aurelio F. Grillo , Sergio Petrera , Francesco Salamida

We explore the potential of a future, ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) experiment, that is able to overcome the limitation of low statistics, to detect anisotropy in the arrival directions of UHECRs. We concentrate on the lower energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-28 Foteini Oikonomou , Kumiko Kotera , Filipe B. Abdalla

Although the recent experimental efforts to improve the observation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) above $10^{18}$ eV, the origin and the composition of such particles is still unknown. In this work, we present the novel Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-17 Manlio De Domenico , Haris Lyberis , Mariangela Settimo

We present a detailed analytical study of the propagation of ultra high energy (UHE) particles in extragalactic magnetic fields. The crucial parameter which affects the diffuse spectrum is the separation between sources. In the case of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Aloisio , V. Berezinsky

Deflection of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) may be sufficiently strong to hinder identification of the UHECR source distribution. A common method for determining the effect of GMF models on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-18 Michael S. Sutherland , Brian M. Baughman , James J. Beatty

We study the production of cosmogenic neutrinos and photons during the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). For a wide range of models in cosmological evolution of source luminosity, composition and maximum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Guillaume Decerprit , Denis Allard

We predict the arrival distribution of UHECRs above $4 \times 10^{19}$ eV with the event number expected by future experiments in the next few years. We perform event simulations with the source model which is adopted in our recent study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroyuki Yoshiguchi , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

We update the constraints on the location of the nearest UHECR source. By analyzing recent data from the Pierre Auger Observatory using state-of-the-art CR propagation models, we reaffirm the need of local sources with a distance less than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-16 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Andrew M. Taylor , Markus Ahlers , Vitor de Souza

The detection of high-energy astrophysical multimessengers establishes a connection between ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and powerful cosmic accelerators. Interactions of UHECRs with radiation fields and interstellar matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 Rodrigo Sasse , Rubens Costa , Adriel G. B Mocellin , Carlos H. Coimbra Araújo , Rita de Cássia dos Anjos

If ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) originate from extragalactic sources, understanding the propagation of charged particles through the magnetized large scale structure (LSS) of the universe is crucial in the search for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Santabrata Das , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

We present a calculation of nuclei propagation with energies above 1 EeV in the intergalactic photon field. The calculation is based on a Monte Carlo approach for the nucleus-photon interaction as well as the intergalactic magnetic field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Tokonatsu Yamamoto , Keiichi Mase , Masahiro Takeda , Naoto Sakaki , Masahiro Teshima

From deflections in galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields energy dependent structures in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) are expected. We propose to characterize these structures by the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-01 Martin Erdmann , Tobias Winchen

In this paper, the production of neutrinos and photons by ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) interacting with the extragalactic background radiation is studied. Centaurus A is assumed as the prime source of UHECR and the possibility to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Cainã de Oliveira , Vitor de Souza

Modern observatories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) have collected over 10^4 events with energies above 10 EeV, whose arrival directions appear to be nearly isotropically distributed. On the other hand, the distribution of matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-07 Armando di Matteo , Peter Tinyakov

The origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos is still a mystery. Hadronic acceleration theory suggests that they should originate in the same sources (astrophysical or cosmological), together with gamma-rays. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Jelena Petrovic

We propose a new way to detect individual bright Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) sources above background if the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) gives the main contribution to UHECR deflections. This method can be directly applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-13 G. Giacinti , D. V. Semikoz

Unlike neutrinos and photons arriving from extra-galactic sources, ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) do not trace back to their origins due to propagation effects such as magnetic deflections and energy losses. For ankle energies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Leonel Morejon

The astrophysical engines that power ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain to date unknown. Since the propagation horizon of UHECRs is limited to the local, anisotropic Universe, the distribution of UHECR arrival directions should…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Federico R. Urban , Stefano Camera , David Alonso

We present a new method for calculating arrival distribution of UHECRs including modifications by the galactic magnetic field. We perform numerical simulations of UHE anti-protons, which are injected isotropically at the earth, in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Yoshiguchi , S. Nagataki , K. Sato

We simulate the propagation of cosmic rays at ultra-high energies, $\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV, in models of extragalactic magnetic fields in constrained simulations of the local Universe. We investigate the impact of different magneto-genesis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Jenny G. Sorce , Stefan Gottlöber