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The connection between cosmological observations and neutrino physics is discussed in detail. Neutrinos decouple from thermal contact in the early Universe at a temperature of order 1 MeV which coincides with the temperature where light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Steen Hannestad

KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Simon Bourret , João A. B. Coelho , Véronique Van Elewyck

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a sample of high purity, primarily atmospheric, muon neutrino events over 11 years from all directions below the horizon, spanning the energy range 500 GeV to 100 TeV. While this sample was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Alex Wen

Neutrino astronomy is a vibrant field of study in astrophysics, offering unique insights into the Universe's most energetic phenomena. The combination of a low cross section and zero electromagnetic charge ensure that a neutrino retains…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Ruben Camphyn

The interaction of UHE neutrinos can be observed from outer space. The advantage of the proposed method is that the Earth can be used as an energy filter as well as a target. We sketch the potentials of these observations in searching for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Domokos , S. Kovesi-Domokos

We predict geoneutrino fluxes in a reference model based on a detailed description of Earth's crust and mantle and using the best available information on the abundances of uranium, thorium, and potassium inside Earth's layers. We estimate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-04 Fabio Mantovani , Luigi Carmignani , Gianni Fiorentini , Marcello Lissia

I give an overview of the recent developments in the solar neutrino field. I focus on the Borexino detector, which has uncovered the solar neutrino spectrum below 5 MeV, providing new tests and confirmation for solar neutrino oscillations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-31 Alvaro Chavarria

In this report are recalled in a simple form some of the main concepts about neutrinos, starting from their discovery and classifying them in the Standard Model of the Microcosm. Then are presented the main natural sources of neutrinos,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Giorgio Giacomelli

The Sun is fueled by a series of nuclear reactions that produce the energy that makes it shine. The primary reaction is the fusion of two protons into a deuteron, a positron and a neutrino. These neutrinos constitute the vast majority of…

Recently, a new non-Standard Model neutrino interaction mediated by a light scalar field was proposed, which renders the big-bang relic neutrinos of the cosmic neutrino background a natural dark energy candidate, the so-called Neutrino Dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Ringwald , Lily Schrempp

The interior of Earth's core can be explored using weak interactions of atmospheric neutrinos. This would complement gravitational and seismic measurements, paving the way for multimessenger tomography of Earth. Oscillations of atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Anuj Kumar Upadhyay , Anil Kumar , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Amol Dighe

Motivated by a pilot experiment conducted by F.Vannucci et al. during a solar eclipse, we work out the geometry governing the radiative decays of solar neutrinos. Surprisingly, although a smaller proportion of the photons can be detected,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. -M. Frère , D. Monderen

In recent years precision cosmology has become an increasingly powerful probe of particle physics. Perhaps the prime example of this is the very stringent cosmological upper bound on the neutrino mass. However, other aspects of neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Steen Hannestad

We present the most recent solar neutrino results from the Borexino experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. In particular, refined measurements of all neutrinos produced in the {\it pp} fusion chain have been made. It is the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-12-31 Andrea Pocar

Cosmogenic neutrinos originate from interactions of cosmic rays propagating through the universe with cosmic background photons. Since both high-energy cosmic rays and cosmic background photons exist, the existence of high-energy cosmogenic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 David Wittkowski , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Neutrino-electron scattering experiments play a crucial role in investigating the non-standard interactions of neutrinos. In certain models, these interactions can include interference terms that may affect measurements. Next-generation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-19 Jong-Chul Park , Gaurav Tomar

Neutrino oscillation results from several experiments and sources are discussed. Recent results from solar neutrino measurements by Super-Kamiokande and Borexino, atmospheric neutrino measurements from Super-Kamiokande, and accelerator…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-01-18 Yusuke Koshio

Existing and planned neutrino detectors, sensitive in the energy regime from 10^{17} eV to 10^{23} eV, offer opportunities for particle physics and cosmology. In this contribution, we discuss particularly the possibilities to infer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ringwald

We consider tomography of the Earth's interior using the neutrino pair beam which has recently been proposed. The beam produces a large amount of neutrino and antineutrino pairs from the circulating partially stripped ions and provides the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Takehiko Asaka , Hisashi Okui , Minoru Tanaka , Motohiko Yoshimura

The results presented at the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference on neutrino and muon physics are summarized. Neutrinos and muons provide a huge amount of information on particle interactions up to very high energies and on fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Teresa Montaruli
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