Contribution of Secondary Neutrinos from Line-of-sight Cosmic-Ray Interactions to the IceCube Diffuse Astrophysical Flux

Kochocki, Alina; Takhistov, Volodymyr; Kusenko, Alexander; Whitehorn, Nathan

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abf830

Title: Contribution of Secondary Neutrinos from Line-of-sight Cosmic-Ray Interactions to the IceCube Diffuse Astrophysical Flux

Journal Article · Fri Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · The Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abf830· OSTI ID:1836504

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Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

In 10 years of observations, the IceCube neutrino observatory has revealed a neutrino sky in tension with previous expectations for neutrino point-source emissions. Astrophysical objects associated with hadronic processes might act as production sites for neutrinos, observed as point sources at Earth. Instead, a nearly isotropic flux of astrophysical neutrinos is observed up to PeV energies, prompting a reassessment of the assumed transport and production physics. This work applies a new physical explanation for neutrino production from populations of active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies to three years of public IceCube point-source data. Specifically, cosmic rays produced at such sources might interact with extragalactic background light and gas along the line of sight, generating a secondary neutrino flux. Furthermore, this model is tested alongside a number of typical flux weighting schemes, in all cases the all-sky flux contribution being constrained to percent levels of the reported IceCube diffuse astrophysical flux.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC) High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009937

OSTI ID:: 1836504

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1905684

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 914, Issue 2; ISSN 0004-637X

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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