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Neutrino Flavor Ratios Modified by Cosmic Ray Secondary Acceleration

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-11-04 v2

Abstract

Acceleration of π\pi's and μ\mu's modifies the flavor ratio at Earth (at astrophysical sources) of neutrinos produced by π\pi decay, νe:νμ:ντ\nu_e:\nu_{\mu}:\nu_{\tau}, from 1:1:11:1:1 (1:2:01:2:0) to 1:1.8:1.81:1.8:1.8 (0:1:00:1:0) at high energy, because π\pi's decay more than μ\mu'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