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Neutrino oscillations can be affected by decoherence induced e.g. by Planck scale suppressed interactions with the space-time foam predicted in some approaches to quantum gravity. We study the prospects for observing such effects at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-16 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Haim Goldberg , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar , Thomas J. Weiler

The measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ opens a gateway for the next generation experiments to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Future reactor experiments will focus on mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-29 Miao He

We investigate the impact of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs) on atmospheric neutrinos using the proposed PINGU experiment. In particular, we focus on the matter NSI parameters $\varepsilon_{\mu\tau}$ and $|\varepsilon_{\tau\tau} -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Sandhya Choubey , Tommy Ohlsson

One of the challenges that must be overcome in order to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using reactor neutrinos is the theoretical uncertainty in the unoscillated reactor neutrino spectrum: this is one of the reasons why, recently, it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Hosam Mohammed

The announcement by the IceCube Collaboration of the observation of 53 astrophysical neutrino candidates in the energy range 0.03 \alt E_\nu/PeV \alt 2 has been greeted with a great deal of justified excitement. Herein we provide fits of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Martin M. Block , Loyal Durand , Phuoc Ha , Jorge F. Soriano , Thomas J. Weiler

We consider the problem of neutrino masses and mixing within the framework of a non-minimal supersymmetric SU(5) model extended by adding a set of 1,24 chiral superfields accommodating three right-handed neutrinos. A Type I+III see-saw…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-09 M. Paraskevas , K. Tamvakis

New results from Super-Kamiokande, K2K and SNO not only have spurred on the interest in neutrino oscillation physics, but also have started to shift the interest from discovery to precision measurements. Future projects focusing on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Tabarelli de Fatis

Nuclear reactors provide intense sources of electron antineutrinos, characterized by few-MeV energy E and unoscillated spectral shape Phi(E). High-statistics observations of reactor neutrino oscillations over medium-baseline distances L ~…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 F. Capozzi , E. Lisi , A. Marrone

Sources of astrophysical neutrinos can potentially be discovered through the detection of neutrinos in coincidence with electromagnetic or gravitational waves. Real-time alerts generated by IceCube play an important role in this search,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Cristina Lagunas Gualda , Yosuke Ashida , Ankur Sharma , Hamish Thomas

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has opened a new window into the high-energy Universe, providing measurements of neutrinos over a broad energy range. This contribution presents recent results, including a follow-up on the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Thijs Juan van Eeden

We discuss the prospects for next generation neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube, to measure the flavor ratios of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The expected flavor ratios at the sources are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Dan Hooper , Sandip Pakvasa , Thomas J. Weiler

Large mass ice/water Cherenkov experiments, optimized to detect low energy (1-20 GeV) atmospheric neutrinos, have the potential to discriminate between normal and inverted neutrino mass hierarchies. The sensitivity depends on several model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Franco , C. Jollet , A. Kouchner , V. Kulikovskiy , A. Meregaglia , S. Perasso , T. Pradier , A. Tonazzo , V. Van Elewyck

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 $km^{3}$ detector currently under construction at the South Pole. Searching for high energy neutrinos from unresolved astrophysical sources is one of the main analysis strategies used in the search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-04 Sean Grullon

Soon, a new generation of neutrino telescopes, presently under planning, will target the discovery of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos of cosmic origin, with energies higher than 100 PeV, that promise unique insight into astrophysics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Olga Mena

Recent works combining neutrino oscillation and cosmological data to determine the neutrino hierarchy found a range of odds in favour of the normal hierarchy. These results arise from differing approaches to incorporating prior knowledge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Constance Mahony , Boris Leistedt , Hiranya V. Peiris , Jonathan Braden , Benjamin Joachimi , Andreas Korn , Linda Cremonesi , Ryan Nichol

With the forthcoming deployment of IceCube-Upgrade, unprecedented statistics of atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range (1-100) GeV will become available, providing a valuable opportunity to probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Emilse Cabrera , Miaochen Jin , Carlos A. Argüelles , Arman Esmaili

Recent measurements of astrophysical neutrinos have expanded our understanding of their nature and origin. However, very little is still known about the astrophysical $\bar{\nu}:\nu$ ratio. The only prior measurement is the recent, single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Barbara Skrzypek , Spencer Klein

Leptonic \textit{CP} violation search, neutrino mass hierarchy determination, and the precision measurement of oscillation parameters for a unitary test of the leptonic mixing matrix are among the major targets of the ongoing and future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 S. Cao , A. Nath , T. V. Ngoc , P. T. Quyen , N. T. Hong Van , Ng. K. Francis

We present an in-depth analysis of the flavour and spectral composition of the 36 high-energy neutrino events observed after three years of observation by the IceCube neutrino telescope. While known astrophysical sources of HE neutrinos are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Aaron C. Vincent , Sergio Palomares Ruiz , Olga Mena

We discuss the effects of neutrino mixing and the neutrino mass hierarchy when considering the capture of the cosmic neutrino background (CNB) on radioactive nuclei. The implications of mixing and hierarchy at future generations of tritium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mattias Blennow