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 …

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 …

High-energy electromagnetic, neutrino, and cosmic-ray emission by stellar-mass black holes in disks of active galactic nuclei

H Tagawa, SS Kimura, Z Haiman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Some Seyfert galaxies are detected in high-energy gamma rays, but the mechanism and site
of gamma-ray emission are unknown. Also, the origins of the cosmic high-energy neutrino …

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 …

Testing hadronic and photohadronic interactions as responsible for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and neutrino fluxes from starburst galaxies

A Condorelli, D Boncioli, E Peretti, S Petrera - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We test the hypothesis of starburst galaxies as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and
high energy neutrinos. The computation of interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the …

Curious case of the maximum rigidity distribution of cosmic-ray accelerators

D Ehlert, F Oikonomou, M Unger - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In many models, the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are assumed to
accelerate particles to the same maximum energy. Motivated by the fact that candidate …

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 …

Search for photons above 1019 eV with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

P Abreu, M Aglietta, I Allekotte… - … of cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to search for air showers
initiated by photons with an energy above 1019 eV. Photons in the zenith angle range from …

Measurement of hadron production in interactions at 158 and with NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

H Adhikary, KK Allison, N Amin, EV Andronov, T Antićić… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present a measurement of the momentum spectra of π±, K±, p±, Λ, Λ¯, and KS 0
produced in interactions of negatively charged pions with carbon nuclei at beam momenta of …

Constraints on the Hosts of UHECR Accelerators

MS Muzio, GR Farrar - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Interactions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in the surroundings of their
accelerators can naturally explain the observed spectrum and composition of UHECRs …