Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Neutrino Emitting Acceleration Sources?
arXiv:hep-ph/0112351 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.103003
Abstract
We demonstrate by numerical flux calculations that neutrino beams producing the observed highest energy cosmic rays by weak interactions with the relic neutrino background require a non-uniform distribution of sources. Such sources have to accelerate protons at least up to 10^{23} eV, have to be opaque to their primary protons, and should emit the secondary photons unavoidably produced together with the neutrinos only in the sub-MeV region to avoid conflict with the diffuse gamma-ray background measured by the EGRET experiment. Even if such a source class exists, the resulting large uncertainties in the parameters involved in this scenario does currently not allow to extract any meaningful information on absolute neutrino masses.
6 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX style
References in corpus (6)
- Measurement of the rate of nu_e + d --> p + p + e^- interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
- BL Lacertae are probable sources of the observed ultra-high energy cosmic rays
- Correlation function of ultra-high energy cosmic rays favors point sources
- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: A Probe of Physics and Astrophysics at Extreme Energies
- Absolute Neutrino Mass Determination
- Centaurus A as the Source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays?
Cited by in corpus (44)
- Neutrinos in cosmology
- Gravitational clustering of relic neutrinos and implications for their detection
- Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment
- Erratum: Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment
- Constraints on Cosmic Neutrino Fluxes from the ANITA Experiment
- Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Fluxes and Their Constraints
- Old and new physics interpretations of the NuTeV anomaly
- Absolute Values of Neutrino Masses: Status and Prospects
- Astrophysical Origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
- Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Fluxes: New Constraints and Implications
- New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment
- GZK Photons as Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
- Neutrino Clustering in Cold Dark Matter Halos : Implications for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
- Electroweak jet cascading in the decay of superheavy particles
- Relic Neutrino Absorption Spectroscopy
- Which blazars are neutrino loud?
- Relic neutrino masses and the highest energy cosmic rays
- Cosmological neutrinos
- Tracing very high energy neutrinos from cosmological distances in ice
- Diagnostic Potential of Cosmic-Neutrino Absorption Spectroscopy
- Limits on the cosmic neutrino background
- Electroweak instantons as a solution to the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray puzzle
- Bayesian Inference Constraints on Astrophysical Production of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and Cosmogenic Neutrino Flux Predictions
- Similarities and Differences between Relativistic Electron-Photon Cascades Developed in Matter, Photon Gas and Magnetic Field
- GZK Photons in the Minimal Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Model
- GZK Photons Above 10 EeV
- New hadrons as ultra-high energy cosmic rays
- Implications of ultra-high energy neutrino flux constraints for Lorentz-invariance violating cosmogenic neutrinos
- Neutrino Masses in Astroparticle Physics
- Bounds on Relic Neutrino Masses in the Z-burst Model
- The Enigma of the Highest Energy Particles of Nature
- Constraints on ultra-high energy neutrinos from optically thick astrophysical accelerators
- Is astronomy possible with neutral ultra-high energy cosmic ray particles existing in the Standard Model?
- Measuring the Spectra of High Energy Neutrinos with a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Telescope
- Z-bursts from the Virgo cluster
- How to Detect Big Bang Relic Neutrinos?
- Cosmogenic neutrinos and quasi-stable supersymmetric particle production
- Astrophysical tau neutrinos and their detection by large neutrino telescopes
- Extremely energetic cosmic neutrinos and their impact on particle physics and cosmology
- Probing Physics at Extreme Energies with Cosmic Ultra-High Energy Radiation
- Interactions of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos
- The Mysteries of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
- Search for Ultra High-Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II
- Relic neutrino clustering and implications for their detection