Zee-Burst: A New Probe of Neutrino Non-Standard Interactions at IceCube
Abstract
We propose a new way to probe non-standard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino data at current and future neutrino telescopes. We consider the Zee model of radiative neutrino mass generation as a prototype, which allows two charged scalars -- one -doublet and one singlet, both being leptophilic, to be as light as 100 GeV, thereby inducing potentially observable NSI with electrons. We show that these light charged Zee-scalars could give rise to a Glashow-like resonance feature in the UHE neutrino event spectrum at the IceCube neutrino observatory and its high-energy upgrade IceCube-Gen2, which can probe a sizable fraction of the allowed NSI parameter space.
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@article{arxiv.1908.02779,
title = {Zee-Burst: A New Probe of Neutrino Non-Standard Interactions at IceCube},
author = {K. S. Babu and P. S. Bhupal Dev and Sudip Jana and Yicong Sui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02779},
year = {2020}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures; minor changes and added references, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett