Production of Neutrinos and Secondary Electrons in Cosmic Sources
arXiv:0711.2528 · doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.02.003
Abstract
We study the individual contribution to secondary lepton production in hadronic interactions of cosmic rays (CRs) including resonances and heavier secondaries. For this purpose we use the same ethodology discussed earlier \cite{Huang07}, namely the Monte Carlo particle collision code DPMJET3.04 to determine the multiplicity spectra of various secondary particles with leptons as the final decay states, that result from inelastic collisions of cosmic-ray protons and Helium nuclei with the interstellar medium of standard composition. By combining the simulation results with parametric models for secondary particle (with resonances included) for incident cosmic-ray energies below a few GeV, where DPMJET appears unreliable, we thus derive production matrices for all stable secondary particles in cosmic-ray interactions with energies up to about 10 PeV. We apply the production matrices to calculate the radio synchrotron radiation of secondary electrons in a young shell-type SNR, RX J1713.7-3946, which is a measure of the age, the spectral index of hadronic cosmic rays, and most importantly the magnetic field strength. We find that the multi-mG fields recently invoked to explain the X-ray flux variations are unlikely to extend over a large fraction of the radio-emitting region, otherwise the spectrum of hadronic cosmic rays in the energy window 0.1-100 GeV must be unusually hard. We also use the production matrices to calculate the muon event rate in an IceCube-like detector that are induced by muon neutrinos from high-energy -ray sources such as RX J1713.7-3946, Vela Jr. and MGRO J2019+37. At muon energies of a few TeV, or in other word, about 10 TeV neutrino energy, an accumulation of data over about five to ten years would allow testing the hadronic origin of TeV -rays.
arXiv comment21 Pages; 3 Figures; 1 Table; Astroparticle Physics Minor Revised
References in corpus (33)
- Energy spectra of gamma-rays, electrons and neutrinos produced at proton-proton interactions in the very high energy regime
- Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Interactions
- Neutrino Interactions at Ultrahigh Energies
- Parameterization of Gamma, e^+/- and Neutrino Spectra Produced by p-p Interaction in Astronomical Environment
- A detailed spectral and morphological study of the gamma-ray supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with H.E.S.S
- Calculation of the Flux of Atmospheric Neutrinos
- X-Ray Emission From the Shell-Type SNR G347.3-0.5
- Discovery of Non Thermal X-Rays from the Northwest Shell of the New SNR RX J1713.7-3946: The Second SN1006 ?
- H.E.S.S. observations of the supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622: shell-type morphology and spectrum of a widely extended VHE gamma-ray source
- HESS Observations and VLT Spectroscopy of PG 1553+113
- Detection of TeV gamma-ray Emission from the Shell-Type Supernova Remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with H.E.S.S
- Evidence of X-ray Synchrotron Emission from Electrons Accelerated to 40 TeV in the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
- Non linear particle acceleration at non-relativistic shock waves in the presence of self-generated turbulence
- Extensive Air Shower Simulations at the Highest Energies
- A High-Resolution Study of Nonthermal Radio and X-Ray Emission from SNR G347.3-0.5
- Potential Neutrino Signals from Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources
- Guaranteed and Prospective Galactic TeV Neutrino Sources
- Possible High-energy neutrinos from the cosmic accelerator RXJ1713.7-3946
- In which shell-type SNRs should we look for gamma-rays and neutrinos from p-p collisions?
- A Possible Site of Cosmic Ray Acceleration in the Supernova Remnant IC 443
- Thermal and Nonthermal X-Ray Emission in SNR RCW 86
- Parametrizations of Inclusive Cross Sections for Pion Production in Proton-Proton Collisions
- Expected neutrino signal from supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 and flavor oscillations
- Neutrinos from galactic sources of cosmic rays with known gamma-ray spectra
- Measuring the Broad-band X-Ray Spectrum from 400 eV to 40 keV in the Southwest Part of the Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946
- No evidence yet for hadronic TeV gamma-ray emission from SNR RX J1713.7-3946
- Dissecting the Cygnus Region with TeV Gamma Rays and Neutrinos
- Discovering Long Wavelength Neutrino Oscillations in the Distorted Neutrino Spectrum of Galactic Supernova Remnants
- Spectral properties of nonthermal X-ray emission from the shell-type SNR RX J1713.7-3946 as revealed by XMM-Newton
- Gamma-Rays Produced in Cosmic-Ray Interactions and the TeV-band Spectrum of RX J1713-3946
- Test of Hadronic Interaction Models in the Forward Region with KASCADE Event Rates
- Perspectives of High Energy Neutrino Astronomy
- Atmospheric gamma-ray observation with the BETS detectorfor calibrating atmospheric neutrino flux calculations
Cited by in corpus (9)
- Cosmic Ray Electrons, Positrons and the Synchrotron emission of the Galaxy: consistent analysis and implications
- Galactic Neutrinos in the TeV to PeV Range
- How precisely neutrino emission from supernova remnants can be constrained by gamma ray observations?
- Magnetic Field Amplification by Turbulence in A Relativistic Shock Propagating through An Inhomogeneous Medium
- Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Point Sources at Super-Kamiokande
- Gamma-ray spectrum of RX J1713.7-3946 in the Fermi era and future detection of neutrinos
- Radio polarimetry signatures of strong magnetic turbulence in Supernova Remnants
- Production of secondary particles in heavy nuclei interactions in supernova remnants
- Secondary-electron radiation accompanying hadronic GeV-TeV gamma-rays from supernova remnants