UHECR and GRB neutrinos: an incomplete revolution?
arXiv:1408.0227
Abstract
At highest energy edges Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray, (UHECR) and PeVs neutrino (UHE neutrino), should soon offer new exciting astronomy. The fast and somehow contradictory growth of hundred of antagonist models shows the explosive vitality of those new astronomy frontiers. No conclusive understanding on the UHECR and UHE neutrino source are at hand. The earliest expectation of GRBs (as a one shoot Fireball model) as the main (UHE neutrino) sources has been rejected. The source of UHECR as the expected GZK ones within our Super-Galactic Plane (within few tens Mpc) it has been quite disproved. However alternative models on GRB (as the long life precessing Jets) and the new updated records by AUGER, TA, ICECUBE are offering nevertheless partial understanding and early hint for point source correlations along our galaxy and toward Cen A, the nearest extragalactic AGN.
11 pages, 1 figure
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