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Manifestations of Extra Dimensions in a Neutrino Telescope

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

Theories with large extra dimensions provide the possibility that a flavor neutrino, localized in a 3+1 brane, can mix with a singlet neutrino living in the bulk. This mixing leads to unconventional patterns of neutrino matter oscillations and we examine in details how these oscillations depend upon two parameters: the brane-bulk coupling ξ\xi and the effective mass μ\mu of the flavor neutrino inside matter. We find that high energy (E50(E \ge 50 GeV) νμ\nu_\mu neutrinos, to be detected by neutrino telescopes, can give signals of extra dimensions. With a 1 km3m^{3} neutrino telescope extra dimensions with radius down to 1μm1\mu m can be tested directly, while for smaller radius an indirect evidence can be established.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0109048,
  title  = {Manifestations of Extra Dimensions in a Neutrino Telescope},
  author = {A. Nicolaidis and D. T. Papadamou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0109048},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures, added conclusions