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High-energy neutrinos from astrophysical accelerators of cosmic ray nuclei

ArXiv astro-ph/0703001 (2007)

Authors:

Luis A Anchordoqui, Dan Hooper, Subir Sarkar, Andrew M Taylor

Abstract:

Ongoing experimental efforts to detect cosmic sources of high energy neutrinos are guided by the expectation that astrophysical accelerators of cosmic ray protons would also generate neutrinos through interactions with ambient matter and/or photons. However there will be a reduction in the predicted neutrino flux if cosmic ray sources accelerate not only protons but also significant number of heavier nuclei, as is indicated by recent air shower data. We consider plausible extragalactic sources such as active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts and starburst galaxies and demand consistency with the observed cosmic ray composition and energy spectrum at Earth after allowing for propagation through intergalactic radiation fields. This allows us to calculate the expected neutrino fluxes from the sources, normalised to the observed cosmic ray spectrum. We find that the likely signals are still within reach of next generation neutrino telescopes such as IceCube.
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High-energy neutrinos from astrophysical accelerators of cosmic ray nuclei

(2007)

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Luis A Anchordoqui, Dan Hooper, Subir Sarkar, Andrew M Taylor
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Anisotropy studies around the galactic centre at EeV energies with the Auger Observatory

Astroparticle Physics 27:4 (2007) 244-253

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J Abraham, M Aglietta, C Aguirre, D Allard, I Allekotte, P Allison, C Alvarez, J Alvarez-Muñiz, M Ambrosio, L Anchordoqui, JC Anjos, C Aramo, K Arisaka, E Armengaud, F Arneodo, F Arqueros, T Asch, H Asorey, BS Atulugama, J Aublin, M Ave, G Avila, J Bacelar, T Bäcker, D Badagnani, AF Barbosa, HMJ Barbosa, M Barkhausen, D Barnhill, SLC Barroso, P Bauleo, J Beatty, T Beau, BR Becker, KH Becker, JA Bellido, S BenZvi, C Berat, T Bergmann, P Bernardini, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, O Blanch-Bigas, F Blanco, P Blasi, C Bleve, H Blümer, P Boghrat, M Boháčová, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, M Boratav, J Brack, JM Brunet, P Buchholz, NG Busca, KS Caballero-Mora, B Cai, DV Camin, JN Capdevielle, R Caruso, A Castellina, G Cataldi, L Cazón, R Cester, J Chauvin, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, A Chou, J Chye, D Claes, PDJ Clark, RW Clay, SB Clay, B Connolly, A Cordier, U Cotti, S Coutu, CE Covault, J Cronin, S Dagoret-Campagne, TD Quang, P Darriulat, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM de Almeida, LA de Carvalho, C De Donato, SJ de Jong, WJM de Mello, JRT de Mello Neto, I De Mitri, MAL de Oliveira, V de Souza, L del Peral, O Deligny, AD Selva, CD Fratte, H Dembinski

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Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory are analyzed to search for anisotropies near the direction of the Galactic Centre at EeV energies. The exposure of the surface array in this part of the sky is already significantly larger than that of the fore-runner experiments. Our results do not support previous findings of localized excesses in the AGASA and SUGAR data. We set an upper bound on a point-like flux of cosmic rays arriving from the Galactic Centre which excludes several scenarios predicting sources of EeV neutrons from Sagittarius A. Also the events detected simultaneously by the surface and fluorescence detectors (the 'hybrid' data set), which have better pointing accuracy but are less numerous than those of the surface array alone, do not show any significant localized excess from this direction. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The intergalactic propagation of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray nuclei

Astropart.Phys. 27 (2007) 199-212

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Dan Hooper, Subir Sarkar, Andrew M Taylor
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Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of 27 December 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector.

Phys Rev Lett 97:22 (2006) 221101

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A Achterberg, M Ackermann, J Adams, J Ahrens, K Andeen, DW Atlee, JN Bahcall, X Bai, B Baret, M Bartelt, SW Barwick, R Bay, K Beattie, T Becka, JK Becker, K-H Becker, P Berghaus, D Berley, E Bernardini, D Bertrand, DZ Besson, E Blaufuss, DJ Boersma, C Bohm, J Bolmont, S Böser, O Botner, A Bouchta, J Braun, C Burgess, T Burgess, T Castermans, D Chirkin, B Christy, J Clem, DF Cowen, MV D'Agostino, A Davour, CT Day, C De Clercq, L Demirörs, F Descamps, P Desiati, T Deyoung, JC Diaz-Velez, J Dreyer, JP Dumm, MR Duvoort, WR Edwards, R Ehrlich, J Eisch, RW Ellsworth, PA Evenson, O Fadiran, AR Fazely, T Feser, K Filimonov, BD Fox, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, R Ganugapati, H Geenen, L Gerhardt, A Goldschmidt, JA Goodman, R Gozzini, S Grullon, A Gross, RM Gunasingha, M Gurtner, A Hallgren, F Halzen, K Han, K Hanson, D Hardtke, R Hardtke, T Harenberg, JE Hart, T Hauschildt, D Hays, J Heise, K Helbing, M Hellwig, P Herquet, GC Hill, J Hodges, KD Hoffman, B Hommez, K Hoshina, D Hubert, B Hughey, PO Hulth, K Hultqvist, S Hundertmark, J-P Hülss, A Ishihara, J Jacobsen, GS Japaridze, A Jones, JM Joseph, K-H Kampert, A Karle, H Kawai, JL Kelley, M Kestel, N Kitamura, SR Klein, S Klepser, G Kohnen, H Kolanoski, L Köpke, M Krasberg, K Kuehn, H Landsman, H Leich, I Liubarsky, J Lundberg, J Madsen, K Mase, HS Matis, T McCauley, CP McParland, A Meli, T Messarius, P Mészáros, H Miyamoto, A Mokhtarani, T Montaruli, A Morey, R Morse, SM Movit, K Münich, R Nahnhauer, JW Nam, P Niessen, DR Nygren, H Ogelman, Ph Olbrechts, A Olivas, S Patton, C Peña-Garay, C Pérez de Los Heros, A Piegsa, D Pieloth, AC Pohl, R Porrata, J Pretz, PB Price, GT Przybylski, K Rawlins, S Razzaque, F Refflinghaus, E Resconi, W Rhode, M Ribordy, A Rizzo, S Robbins, P Roth, C Rott, D Rutledge, D Ryckbosch, H-G Sander, S Sarkar, S Schlenstedt, T Schmidt, D Schneider, D Seckel, SH Seo, S Seunarine, A Silvestri, AJ Smith, M Solarz, C Song, JE Sopher, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, M Stamatikos, T Stanev, P Steffen, T Stezelberger, RG Stokstad, MC Stoufer, S Stoyanov, EA Strahler, T Straszheim, K-H Sulanke, GW Sullivan, TJ Sumner, I Taboada, O Tarasova, A Tepe, L Thollander, S Tilav, PA Toale, D Turcan, N van Eijndhoven, J Vandenbroucke, A Van Overloop, B Voigt, W Wagner, C Walck, H Waldmann, M Walter, Y-R Wang, C Wendt, CH Wiebusch, G Wikström, DR Williams, R Wischnewski, H Wissing, K Woschnagg, XW Xu, G Yodh, S Yoshida, JD Zornoza, IceCube Collaboration

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On 27 December 2004, a giant gamma flare from the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater 1806-20 saturated many satellite gamma-ray detectors, being the brightest transient event ever observed in the Galaxy. AMANDA-II was used to search for down-going muons indicative of high-energy gammas and/or neutrinos from this object. The data revealed no significant signal, so upper limits (at 90% C.L.) on the normalization constant were set: 0.05(0.5) TeV-1 m;{-2} s;{-1} for gamma=-1.47 (-2) in the gamma flux and 0.4(6.1) TeV-1 m;{-2} s;{-1} for gamma=-1.47 (-2) in the high-energy neutrino flux.
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