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Di Mauro, M.; Donato, F.; Fornengo, N.; Lineros, R.A.; Vittino, A. |
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Interpretation of AMS-02 electrons and positrons data |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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006 - 33pp |
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ultra high energy cosmic rays; particle acceleration; cosmic ray theory; cosmic ray experiments |
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We perform a combined analysis of the recent AMS-02 data on electrons, positrons, electrons plus positrons and positron fraction, in a self-consistent framework where we realize a theoretical modeling of all the astrophysical components that can contribute to the observed fluxes in the whole energy range. The primary electron contribution is modeled through the sum of an average flux from distant sources and the fluxes from the local supernova remnants in the Green catalog. The secondary electron and positron fluxes originate from interactions on the interstellar medium of primary cosmic rays, for which we derive a novel determination by using AMS-02 proton and helium data. Primary positrons and electrons from pulsar wind nebulae in the ATNF catalog are included and studied in terms of their most significant (while loosely known) properties and under different assumptions (average contribution from the whole catalog, single dominant pulsar, a few dominant pulsars). We obtain a remarkable agreement between our various modeling and the AMS-02 data for all types of analysis, demonstrating that the whole AMS-02 leptonic data admit a self-consistent interpretation in terms of astrophysical contributions. |
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[Di Mauro, M.; Donato, F.; Fornengo, N.; Vittino, A.] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis, I-10125 Turin, Italy, Email: mattia.dimauro@to.infn.it; |
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WOS:000334496500006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1771 |
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Pierre Auger Collaboration (Aab, A. et al); Pastor, S. |
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Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the pierre Auger Observatory |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2014 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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019 - 32pp |
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ultra high energy cosmic rays; cosmic ray experiments |
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We describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers with zenith angles greater than 60 degrees detected with the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are fitted to muon density distributions predicted with atmospheric cascade models to obtain the relative shower size as an overall normalization parameter. The method is evaluated using simulated showers to test its performance. The energy of the cosmic rays is calibrated using a sub-sample of events reconstructed with both the fluorescence and surface array techniques. The reconstruction method described here provides the basis of complementary analyses including an independent measurement of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using very inclined events collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory. |
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[Anchordoqui, L.] CUNY, CUNY Herbert H Lehman Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, New York, NY 10021 USA |
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WOS:000341848800019 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Bertolez-Martinez, T.; Arguelles, C.; Esteban, I.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Martinez-Soler, I.; Salvado, J. |
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IceCube and the origin of ANITA-IV events |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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005 - 24pp |
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Cosmic Rays; Specific BSM Phenomenology |
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Recently, the ANITA collaboration announced the detection of new, unsettling upgoing Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) events. Understanding their origin is pressing to ensure success of the incoming UHE neutrino program. In this work, we study their internal consistency and the implications of the lack of similar events in IceCube. We introduce a generic, simple parametrization to study the compatibility between these two observatories in Standard Model-like and Beyond Standard Model scenarios: an incoming flux of particles that interact with Earth nucleons with cross section sigma, producing particle showers along with long-lived particles that decay with lifetime iota and generate a shower that explains ANITA observations. We find that the ANITA angular distribution imposes significant constraints, and when including null observations from IceCube only iota similar to 10(-3)-10(-2) s and sigma similar to 10(-33) -10(-32) cm(2) can explain the data. This hypothesis is testable with future IceCube data. Finally, we discuss a specific model that can realize this scenario. Our analysis highlights the importance of simultaneous observations by high-energy optical neutrino telescopes and new UHE radio detectors to uncover cosmogenic neutrinos or discover new physics. |
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[Bertolez-Martinez, Toni; Salvado, Jordi] Univ Barcelona, Dept Fis Quant & Astrofis, Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: antoni.bertolez@fqa.ub.edu; |
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WOS:001021483800005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5589 |
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Fischer, O.; Pattnaik, B.; Zurita, J. |
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Testing Heavy Neutral Leptons in Cosmic Ray Beam Dump experiments |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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193 - 24pp |
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Cosmic Rays; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos; New Light Particles |
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In this work, we discuss the possibility to test Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) using “Cosmic Ray Beam Dump” experiments. In analogy with terrestrial beam dump experiments, where a beam first hits a target and is then absorbed by a shield, we consider high-energy incident cosmic rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere and then the Earth's surface. We focus here on HNL production from atmospherically produced kaon, pion and D-meson decays, and discuss the possible explanation of the appearing Cherenkov showers observed by the SHALON Cherenkov telescope and the ultra-high energy events detected by the neutrino experiment ANITA. We show that these observations can not be explained with a long-lived HNL, as the relevant parameter space is excluded by existing constraints. Then we propose two new experimental setups that are inspired by these experiments, namely a Cherenkov telescope pointing at a sub-horizontal angle and shielded by the mountain cliff at Mount Thor, and a geostationary satellite that observes part of the Sahara desert. We show that the Cherenkov telescope at Mount Thor can probe currently untested HNL parameter space for masses below the kaon mass. We also show that the geostationary satellite experiment can significantly increase the HNL parameter space coverage in the whole mass range from 10 MeV up to 2 GeV and test neutrino mixing |U-& alpha;4|(2) down to 10(-11) for masses around 300 MeV. |
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[Fischer, Oliver] Univ Liverpool, Dept Math Sci, Liverpool L69 3BX, England, Email: Oliver.Fischer@liverpool.ac.uk; |
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WOS:001037689200008 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5615 |
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Jueid, A.; Kip, J.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Skands, P. |
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The Strong Force meets the Dark Sector: a robust estimate of QCD uncertainties for anti-matter dark matter searches |
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Journal Article |
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2024 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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02 |
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2 |
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119 - 48pp |
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Cosmic Rays; Particle Nature of Dark Matter; Specific QCD Phenomenology |
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In dark-matter annihilation channels to hadronic final states, stable particles – such as positrons, photons, antiprotons, and antineutrinos – are produced via complex sequences of phenomena including QED/QCD radiation, hadronisation, and hadron decays. These processes are normally modelled by Monte Carlo (MC) event generators whose limited accuracy imply intrinsic QCD uncertainties on the predictions for indirect-detection experiments like Fermi-LAT, Pamela, IceCube or Ams-02. In this article, we perform a comprehensive analysis of QCD uncertainties, meaning both perturbative and nonperturbative sources of uncertainty are included – estimated via variations of MC renormalization-scale and fragmentation-function parameters, respectively – in antimatter spectra from dark-matter annihilation, based on parametric variations of the Pythia 8 event generator. After performing several retunings of light-quark fragmentation functions, we define a set of variations that span a conservative estimate of the QCD uncertainties. We estimate the effects on antimatter spectra for various annihilation channels and final-state particle species, and discuss their impact on fitted values for the dark-matter mass and thermally-averaged annihilation cross section. We find dramatic impacts which can go up to O(10%) for the annihilation cross section. We provide the spectra in tabulated form including QCD uncertainties and code snippets to perform fast dark-matter fits, in this github repository. |
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[Jueid, Adil] Inst Basic Sci IBS, Ctr Theoret Phys Universe, Particle Theory & Cosmol Grp, Daejeon 34126, South Korea, Email: adiljueid@ibs.re.kr; |
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