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Meeting the Challenges for Relic Neutrino Detection

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-21 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Inspired by Gounaris-Sakurai and Lee-Zumino, we postulate that the weak vector and axial vector currents are dominated by JPC=1J^{PC} = 1^{--} and 1++1^{++} resonances respectively in the appropriate channels of ν+νˉ\nu + \bar \nu annihilation into quark-antiquark pairs when an ultrahigh-energy incoming ν (νˉ)\nu \ (\bar \nu) strikes a relic νˉ (ν)\bar \nu \ (\nu). Despite this and some other ideas, it appears the detection of relic neutrinos with just the Standard Model interactions seems extremely difficult at existing or future neutrino telescopes. Thus any positive signal would be due to some non-standard interactions of neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.2112.01424,
  title  = {Meeting the Challenges for Relic Neutrino Detection},
  author = {P. S. Bhupal Dev and Amarjit Soni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.01424},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the European Physical Society conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2021), 26-30 July 2021