4-12 November 2010
Morelia, Michoacan
Mexico/General timezone
- arteaga@ifm.umich.mx
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Contribution Invited talk
Morelia, Michoacan
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Main Hall, Hotel Fiesta Inn
Neutrino physics and cosmic rays
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
Speakers
- Prof. Shigehiro NAGATAKI
Primary authors
- Prof. Shigehiro NAGATAKI (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto Univerisity)
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Abstract content
The sources of Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) whose energy can be as large as 10^20 eV are still not confirmed, which is one of the most mysterious problems in Astrphysics today. I would summarize the history of searching for the sources of UHECRs and current status of their observations. I would like to show our theoretical study on the sources of UHECRs with a help of numerical simulations. I would like to present the future prospect of this field. Also, I would like to present that high-energy neutrinos, which are coming from the interactions of UHECRs with ambient matter/photons in the universe, can be good probes of the sources of UHECRs.