Origin of the high energy cosmic neutrino background

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Nov 7;113(19):191102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.191102. Epub 2014 Nov 7.

Abstract

The diffuse background of very high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos recently discovered with IceCube is compatible with that expected from cosmic ray interactions in the Galactic interstellar medium plus that expected from hadronic interactions near the source and in the intergalactic medium of the cosmic rays which have been accelerated by the jets that produce gamma ray bursts.