Neutrino Flavor Ratios Modified by Cosmic Ray Secondary Acceleration
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-11-04 v2
Abstract
Acceleration of 's and 's modifies the flavor ratio at Earth (at astrophysical sources) of neutrinos produced by decay, , from () to () at high energy, because 's decay more than 's during secondary-acceleration. The neutrino spectrum accompanies a flat excess, differently from the case of energy losses. With the flavor spectra, we can probe timescales of cosmic-ray acceleration and shock dynamics. We obtain general solutions of convection-diffusion equations and apply to gamma-ray bursts, which may have the flavor modification at around PeV -- EeV detectable by IceCube and next-generation experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1504.03417,
title = {Neutrino Flavor Ratios Modified by Cosmic Ray Secondary Acceleration},
author = {Norita Kawanaka and Kunihito Ioka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03417},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D