Neutrinos: the key to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays.
Observations of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) do not uniquely determine both the injection spectrum and the evolution model for UHECR sources--primarily because interactions during propagation obscure the early Universe from direct observation. Detection of neutrinos produced in those same interactions, coupled with UHECR results, would provide a full description of UHECR source properties.
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Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
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