Ultra high energy cosmic rays The intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers

A Coleman, J Eser, E Mayotte, F Sarazin… - Astroparticle …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present white paper is submitted as part of the “Snowmass” process to help inform the
long-term plans of the United States Department of Energy and the National Science …

High-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrinos: A Snowmass white paper

M Ackermann, M Bustamante, L Lu, N Otte… - Journal of high energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Astrophysical neutrinos are excellent probes of astroparticle physics and high-energy
physics. With energies far beyond solar, supernovae, atmospheric, and accelerator …

Searches for beyond-standard-model physics with astroparticle physics instruments

M Ackermann, K Helbing - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many instruments for astroparticle physics are primarily geared towards multi-messenger
astrophysics, to study the origin of cosmic rays and to understand high-energy astrophysical …

Constraining the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays across and above the ankle with the spectrum and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger …

AA Halim, P Abreu, M Aglietta, I Allekotte… - … of cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we present the interpretation of the energy spectrum and mass composition data
as measured by the Pierre Auger Collaboration above 6× 1017 eV. We use an astrophysical …

Massive star cluster origin for the galactic cosmic ray population at very-high energies

T Vieu, B Reville - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We demonstrate that supernova remnant (SNR) shocks embedded within massive star
clusters can reproduce both the cosmic-ray proton and all-particle spectra measured in the …

Production of doubly charmed exotic hadrons in heavy ion collisions

Y Hu, J Liao, E Wang, Q Wang, H Xing, H Zhang - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Hadron spectroscopy provides direct physical measurements that shed light on the
nonperturbative behavior of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In particular, various exotic …

Search for Astrophysical Neutrinos from 1FLE Blazars with IceCube

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The majority of astrophysical neutrinos have undetermined origins. The IceCube Neutrino
Observatory has observed astrophysical neutrinos but has not yet identified their sources …

Revisiting ultrahigh-energy constraints on decaying superheavy dark matter

S Das, K Murase, T Fujii - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We revisit constraints on decaying very heavy dark matter (VHDM) using the latest ultrahigh-
energy cosmic-ray (UHECR; E≳ 10 18 eV) data and ultrahigh-energy (UHE) γ-ray flux upper …

A search for photons with energies above 2× 1017 eV using hybrid data from the low-energy extensions of the Pierre Auger Observatory

P Abreu, M Aglietta, JM Albury, I Allekotte… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent observations of photons with energies of a few 1014 eV from decaying neutral
pions, both from a direction coincident with a giant molecular cloud (HAWC J1825-134 …

Demonstrating agreement between radio and fluorescence measurements of the depth of maximum of extensive air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

A Abdul Halim, P Abreu, M Aglietta, I Allekotte… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We show, for the first time, radio measurements of the depth of shower maximum (X max) of
air showers induced by cosmic rays that are compared to measurements of the established …