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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 135, 2017
7th International Conference on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2016)
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| Article Number | 03001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Other Topics in Radio Detection of Air Showers | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713503001 | |
| Published online | 15 March 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713503001
Cosmogenic photons strongly constrain UHECR source models
Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* e-mail: a.vanvliet@astro.ru.nl
Published online: 15 March 2017
With the newest version of our Monte Carlo code for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) propagation, CRPropa 3, the flux of neutrinos and photons due to interactions of UHECRs with extragalactic background light can be predicted. Together with the recently updated data for the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background (IGRB) by Fermi LAT, it is now possible to severely constrain UHECR source models. The evolution of the UHECR sources especially plays an important role in the determination of the expected secondary photon spectrum. Pure proton UHECR models are already strongly constrained, primarily by the highest energy bins of Fermi LAT’s IGRB, as long as their number density is not strongly peaked at recent times.
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