7–10 Jun 2016
Groningen, Netherlands
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Constraining ultra-high-energy cosmic ray models with cosmogenic neutrino predictions

10 Jun 2016, 10:10
20m
Groningen, Netherlands

Groningen, Netherlands

Hampshire Plaza Hotel
Contributed talk Presentations

Speaker

Dr Arjen van Vliet (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Description

With our newly-developed code for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) propagation, CRPropa, the flux of neutrinos due to interactions of UHECRs with extragalactic background light can be predicted. These cosmogenic neutrinos cover a wide energy range, from below PeV energies up till 100 EeV. The recent measurements in the PeV range and limits at higher energies from IceCube are starting to constrain UHECR models. When combined with predicted secondary photon fluxes and photon background measurements by, e.g., Fermi LAT even stronger constrains can be obtained. In this way the source evolution and UHECR composition can be investigated.

Primary author

Dr Arjen van Vliet (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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