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Neutrino telescope IceCube has recently discovered astrophysical neutrinos with energies in the TeV-PeV range. We use the data of Fermi gamma-ray telescope to demonstrate that the neutrino signal has significant contribution from the Milky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 Andrii Neronov , Dmitry Semikoz

Cosmic rays of energies up to a few PeV are believed to be of galactic origin, yet individual sources have still not been firmly identified. Due to inelastic collisions with the interstellar gas, cosmic-ray nuclei produce a diffuse flux of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Anton Stall , Leonard Kaiser , Philipp Mertsch

It is often stated that the observation of high-energy neutrinos from an astrophysical source would constitute a smoking gun for the acceleration of hadronic cosmic rays. Here, we point out that there exists a purely leptonic mechanism to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Dan Hooper , Kathryn Plant

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

Galactic cosmic rays reach energies of at least several PeV, and their interactions should generate $\gamma$-rays and neutrinos from decay of secondary pions. Therefore, Galactic sources have a guaranteed contribution to the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-03 Ali Kheirandish

The ~70 unidentified sources of the EGRET sky survey may be one of its most important legacies. The identification of these sources at other wavelengths is critical to understanding their nature. Many have flat spectra out to 10 GeV which,…

The existence of astrophysical neutrinos with energies of tens of TeV and higher has been reliably established by the IceCube experiment; the first confirmations of this discovery are being obtained with the ANTARES and Baikal-GVD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Sergey Troitsky

With the breakthrough in PeV gamma-ray astronomy brought by the LHAASO experiment, the high-energy sky is getting richer than before. Lately, LHAASO Collaboration reported the observation of a gamma-ray diffuse emission with energy up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 Chengyu Shao , Sujie Lin , Lili Yang

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical accelerators capable of producing high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays can interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) across the Galaxy to produce neutrinos and gamma rays (propagation component),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Mohadeseh Ozlati Moghadam , Kathrin Egberts , Rowan Batzofin , Constantin Steppa , Elisa Bernardini

This review describes telescopes designed to study neutrinos from astrophysical sources. These sources include the Sun and Supernovae emitting neutrino energies up to tens of MeV, atmospheric neutrino sources caused by cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. McDonald , C. Spiering , S. Schoenert , E. T. Kearns , T. Kajita

The hypothesis of a PeVatron in the Galactic Center, emerged with the recent {\gamma}-ray measurements of H.E.S.S., motivates the search for neutrinos from this source. The effect of {\gamma}-ray absorption is studied: at the energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Silvia Celli , Andrea Palladino , Francesco Vissani

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

Recent observations with atmospheric Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S. and MAGIC have revealed a large number of new sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays from 100 GeV - 100 TeV, mostly concentrated along the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Funk , O. Reimer , D. F. Torres , J. A. Hinton

High energy cosmic ray experiments have identified an excess from the region of the Galactic Plane in a limited energy range around $10^{18}$ eV (EeV). This is very suggestive of neutrons as candidate primaries, because the directional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Haim Goldberg , Francis Halzen , Thomas J. Weiler

IceCube collaboration reported the first high-significance observation of the neutrino emission from the Galactic disk. The observed signal can be due to diffuse emission produced by cosmic rays interacting with interstellar gas but can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Francesco L. Villante , Giulia Pagliaroli

We present a search in IceCube data for neutrino emission from Galactic TeV gamma-ray sources detected by the HAWC gamma-ray observatory. HAWC serves as the excellent instrument to complement IceCube with its energy range extending to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-26 Ali Kheirandish , Joshua Wood

The origin of Petaelectronvolt (PeV) astrophysical neutrinos is fundamental to our understanding of the high-energy Universe. Apart from the technical challenges of operating detectors deep below ice, oceans, and lakes, the phenomenological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , V. Pavlidou , A. C. S. Readhead , R. D. Blandford , S. Kiehlmann , E. Lindfors , W. Max-Moerbeck , T. J. Pearson , M. Petropoulou

We consider the prospects for observing the effects of quantum decoherence in high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos from astrophysical sources. In particular, we study Galactic sources of electron anti-neutrinos produced in the decay of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Dan Hooper , Dean Morgan , Elizabeth Winstanley

The development of techniques whereby gamma rays of energy 100 GeV and above can be studied from the ground, using indirect, but sensitive, techniques has opened up a new area of high energy photon astronomy. The most exciting result that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Horan , T. C. Weekes

Galactic sites of acceleration of cosmic rays to energies of order 10^15 eV and higher, dubbed PeVatrons, reveal themselves by recently discovered gamma radiation of energies above 100 TeV. However, joint gamma-ray and neutrino production,…