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The LHAASO collaboration recently reported a robust measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane at energies from $\sim10$~TeV up to the PeV. This observation represents a clear evidence of a higher diffuse gamma-ray flux from the Galaxy than the expected from traditional models of CR interactions.
On top of this, the recent detection of neutrinos from the Galactic plane by the IceCube collaboration show a similar excess with respect to previous estimations, which further supports a larger rate of hadronic interactions in the Galaxy that would explain both observations. However, the uncertainties in the contribution from sources are still too high to discard this as the origin of these excesses.
Here, we present updated comparisons of a model of inhomogeneous propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy that is tuned to reproduce the Fermi-LAT measurements across the Galactic plane in the GeV range. We show further proof that the predictions from this model reproduce the observed gamma-ray diffuse emission from few GeV up to the PeV, which indicate that these emissions are dominated by the emission from cosmic-ray interactions in the Galaxy.
Finally, we show how this model perfectly reproduces the measurements from LHAASO in the inner and outer parts of the Galactic plane, as well as the IceCube best-fit measurement.
