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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are proposed as candidate sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We study the possibility that the PeV neutrinos recently observed by IceCube are produced by GRB cosmic rays interacting with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Zi-Yi Wang , Xiang-Yu Wang , Jun-Feng Wang

In light of the recent IceCube evidence for a flux of extraterrestrial neutrinos, we revisit the prospect of observing the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays. In particular, we update the predictions for the neutrino flux expected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-20 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , F. Halzen , V. Niro

The diffused gamma halo around our Galaxy recently discovered by EGRET could be produced by annihilations of relic neutrinos N (of fourth generation), whose mass is within a narrow range (Mz /2 < M < Mz). Neutrino annihilations in the halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniele Fargion , Rostislav Konoplich , Marco Grossi , Maxim Khlopov

We simulate the neutrino and $\gamma$-ray emissions of the Galaxy which are originated from the hadronic scattering of cosmic rays (CR) with the interstellar medium (ISM). Rather than assuming a uniform CR density, we estimate the spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are expected to efficiently accelerate protons up to relativistic energies. High-energy photons can originate from decay of neutral pions produced by the interaction of these protons with the medium surrounding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , D. Orlando , L. Perrone

The cosmic neutrino flux recently discovered by IceCube will be instrumental in probing the highest-energy astrophysical processes. Nevertheless, the origin of these neutrinos is still unknown. While it would be more straightforward to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 I. Bartos , M. Ahrens , C. Finley , S. Marka

The purpose of the present paper is to study the neutrino oscillations as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay, with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 KeV. Such low energy neutrino oscillations can only be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Giomataris , J. D. Vergados

Cosmic rays scattering with neutrinos produced in supernovae induce a flux of supernova neutrinos boosted to high energies. We calculate the neutrino flux arising from this new mechanism in environments with large cosmic-ray and supernova…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Gonzalo Herrera , Shunsaku Horiuchi

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

Production of the expected high energy neutrino flux with energy greater than tens of thousands of GeV in some astrophysical sites such as the galactic plane as well as the centers of some distant galaxies is reviewed. The expected changes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Athar

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

Observational information on high-energy astrophysical neutrinos is being continuously collected by the IceCube observatory. However, the sources of neutrinos are still unknown. In this study, we use radio very-long-baseline interferometry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-10 A. V. Plavin , Y. Y. Kovalev , Y. A. Kovalev , S. V. Troitsky

Currently running and forthcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments aim to unambiguously determine the neutrino mass ordering, the charge-parity violating phase in the lepton sector and the possible existence of physics Beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-10 Afroditi Papadopoulou

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

We demonstrate by numerical flux calculations that neutrino beams producing the observed highest energy cosmic rays by weak interactions with the relic neutrino background require a non-uniform distribution of sources. Such sources have to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg E. Kalashev , Vadim A. Kuzmin , Dmitry V. Semikoz , Guenter Sigl

Sgr A East is a very prominent elongated shell structure surrounding (though off-centered from) the Galactic nucleus. Its energetics (~4x10^52 ergs), based on the power required to carve out the radio synchrotron remnant within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Melia , M. Fatuzzo , F. Yusef-Zadeh , S. Markoff

High energy photons originating from the Galactic Center (GC) region have the potential to undergo significant photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillation effects, primarily induced by the presence of intense magnetic fields in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Ben-Yang Zhu , Xiaoyuan Huang , Peng-Fei Yin

We infer the ultrahigh energy neutrino source by using the Glashow resonance candidate event recently identified by the IceCube Observatory. For the calculation of the cross section for the Glashow resonance, we incorporate both the atomic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-28 Guo-yuan Huang , Manfred Lindner , Nele Volmer

The Galactic Center is a prominent source in X-rays and gamma-rays and the study of its high-energy emission is crucial in understanding the physical phenomena taking place in its dense and extreme environment, phenomena that are possibly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-26 Andrea Goldwurm

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