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Neutrino mixing scenarios and AGN

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-03 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been suggested to be sources of very high energy neutrinos. We consider the possibility of using AGN neutrinos to test neutrino mixings. From the atmospheric, solar and laboratory data on neutrino oscillations we derive the flavour composition of the AGN neutrino flux in different neutrino mixing schemes. We show that most of the schemes considered can be distinguished from each other and the existence of a sterile neutrino can be specially tested. AGN neutrinos can also be used to test those four-neutrino scenarios where solar neutrinos oscillate into an arbitrary mixture of νs\nu_s and ντ\nu_\tau.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912240,
  title  = {Neutrino mixing scenarios and AGN},
  author = {Luis Bento and Petteri Keränen and Jukka Maalampi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912240},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in PLB