期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 86, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.083010
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- Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC)
- National Science Foundation [OPP-0236449, PHY-0236449]
- DOE [DE-FG02-95ER40896]
- University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
The observed flux of ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) guarantees the presence of high-energy cosmogenic neutrinos that are produced via photohadronic interactions of CRs propagating through intergalactic space. This flux of neutrinos doesn't share the many uncertainties associated with the environment of the yet unknown CR sources. Cosmogenic neutrinos have nevertheless a strong model dependence associated with the chemical composition, source distribution or evolution and maximal injection energy of UHE CRs. We discuss a lower limit on the cosmogenic neutrino spectrum which depends on the observed UHE CR spectrum and composition and relates directly to experimentally observable and model-independent quantities. We show explicit limits for conservative assumptions about the source evolution.
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