Prospects for joint cosmic ray and neutrino constraints on the evolution of trans-Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin proton sources

MS Muzio, M Unger, S Wissel - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We consider the prospects for future ultrahigh energy cosmic ray and neutrino observations
to constrain the evolution of sources producing a proton flux above 10 EeV (1 EeV= 10 18 …

Constraints on the proton fraction of cosmic rays at the highest energies and the consequences for cosmogenic neutrinos and photons

D Ehlert, A van Vliet, F Oikonomou… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade, observations have shown that the mean mass of ultra-high-energy
cosmic rays (UHECRs) increases progressively toward the highest energies. However, the …

Cosmogenic gamma-rays and neutrinos constrain UHECR source models

A Van Vliet, JR Hörandel, RA Batista - arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04511, 2017 - arxiv.org
We use CRPropa 3 to show how the expected cosmogenic neutrino and gamma-ray spectra
depend on the maximum energy of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at their …

Probing the extragalactic cosmic-ray origin with gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds

N Globus, D Allard, E Parizot… - The Astrophysical journal …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
GeV–TeV gamma-rays and PeV–EeV neutrino backgrounds provide a unique window on
the nature of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We discuss the implications of …

Constraints on the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from cosmogenic neutrinos and photons

G Decerprit, D Allard - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011 - aanda.org
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 …

Cosmogenic neutrinos: parameter space and detectabilty from PeV to ZeV

K Kotera, D Allard, AV Olinto - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
While propagating from their source to the observer, ultrahigh energy cosmic rays interact
with cosmological photon backgrounds and generate to the so-called``cosmogenic …

Neutrino diagnostics of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray protons

M Ahlers, LA Anchordoqui, S Sarkar - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2009 - APS
The energy at which cosmic rays from extra-galactic sources begin to dominate over those
from galactic sources is an important open question in astroparticle physics. A natural …

Predictions for the cosmogenic neutrino flux in light of new data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

LA Anchordoqui, H Goldberg, D Hooper, S Sarkar… - Physical Review D …, 2007 - APS
The Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) has measured the spectrum and composition of the
ultrahigh energy cosmic rays with unprecedented precision. We use these measurements to …

Cosmogenic neutrinos challenge the cosmic-ray proton dip model

J Heinze, D Boncioli, M Bustamante… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin and composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain a mystery.
The proton dip model describes their spectral shape in the energy range above 10 9 GeV by …

Determining the fraction of cosmic-ray protons at ultrahigh energies with cosmogenic neutrinos

A van Vliet, RA Batista, JR Hörandel - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Cosmogenic neutrinos are produced when ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interact
with cosmological photon fields. Limits on the diffuse flux of these neutrinos can be used to …