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We present the first statistically significant detection of neutrino oscillations in the high-energy regime ($>$ 20 GeV) from an analysis of IceCube Neutrino Observatory data collected in 2010-2011. This measurement is made possible by the…

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The lightest neutralino, as the dark matter candidate, can be gravitationally captured by the Sun. In this paper, we studied the high energy neutrino signals from solar neutralino annihilations in the core of the Sun in the anomaly mediated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jia Liu , Peng-fei Yin , Shou-hua Zhu

We quantitatively address whether IceCube, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector under construction at the South Pole, can observe neutrinos pointing back at the accelerators of the Galactic cosmic rays. The photon flux from candidate sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Francis Halzen , Alexander Kappes , Aongus O'Murchadha

Follow-up observations of neutrino events have been a promising method for identifying sources of very-high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic interactions and cosmic rays. On June 15, 2020, IceCube detected a…

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory measured a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in several detection channels. The energy spectrum is fitted as unbroken power-law, but different best-fit parameters were obtained in the various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Joeran Stettner

The advent of gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK-Gd) and of the soon-to-start JUNO liquid scintillator detector marks a substantial improvement in the global sensitivity for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB). The present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-15 Yu-Feng Li , Mark Vagins , Michael Wurm

We advocate the extraterrestrial solar neutrino physics (etSNP) as a means of investigating solar neutrino physics (SNP). As we already know, the dominant and subdominant (vacuum) oscillation lengths would be approximately one kilometer and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-27 W-Y. Pauchy Hwang , Jen-Chieh Peng

UHE cosmic neutrino interaction with the cosmic neutrino background (CnuB) is expected to produce absorption dips in the UHE neutrino flux at energies above the threshold for Z-boson resonant production. The observation of these dips would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Van Elewyck

The neutrino flux from the sun is predicted to have a CNO-cycle contribution as well as the known pp-chain component. Previously, only the fluxes from beta+ decays of 13N, 15O, and 17F have been calculated in detail. Another neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. C. Stonehill , J. A. Formaggio , R. G. H. Robertson

The standard Big-Bang theory predicts a cosmic neutrino background with an average number density of $\sim 100/cm^3$ per flavor. The most promising way of its detection is measuring the feeble ``neutrino wind'' forces exerted on macroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Hagmann

Cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere yield a flux of electron and muon neutrinos with energies greater than 10 GeV. We discuss the influence of neutrino oscillations on the event rates in water-based Cerenkov detectors due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Christian Hettlage , Karl Mannheim , John G. Learned

The atmospheric neutrino flux includes a component from the prompt decay of charmed hadrons that becomes significant only at $E\ge 10$ TeV. At these energies, however, the diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos discovered by IceCube seems to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Miguel Gutiérrez , Gerardo Hernández-Tomé , José I. Illana , Manuel Masip

Searches for light sterile neutrinos are motivated by the unexpected observation of electron neutrino appearance in short-baseline experiments, such as the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and the Mini Booster Neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-08 Carlos A. Argüelles , Jordi Salvado

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer-sized detector designed to detect neutrinos of astrophysical origin. However, muons created by cosmic rays interacting in the atmosphere pose a significant background for these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Sarah Mancina , Manuel Silva

Ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, with EeV-scale energies, carry with them unique insight into fundamental open questions in astrophysics and particle physics. For fifty years, they have evaded discovery, but maybe not for much longer,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-02 Victor Branco Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

Low-energy neutrinos from the cosmic background are captured by objects in the sky that contain material susceptible of single beta decay. Neutrons, which compose most of a neutron star, capture low-energy neutrinos from the cosmic neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Beatriz Hernandez-Molinero , Raul Jimenez , Carlos Peña Garay

Neutrino-antineutrino conversion is an important new physics process. The observation of this phenomenon could indicate total lepton number violation and potential CPT-violation. Searching for the appearance of electron antineutrinos from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 S. J. Li , J. J. Ling , N. Raper , M. V. Smirnov

The construction of large volume detectors of high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos is mainly driven by the search for extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Waxman

I give a brief critical review of the predicted intensity of diffuse high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin over the energy range from 10^12 eV to 10^24 eV. Neutrinos from interactions of galactic cosmic rays with interstellar matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Protheroe

Although the sources of astrophysical neutrinos are still unknown, they are believed to be produced by a population of sources in the distant universe. Measurements of the diffuse, all-sky astrophysical flux can thus be sensitive to flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Kiara Carloni , Yago Porto , Carlos A. Argüelles , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Sudip Jana