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Over cosmic distances, astrophysical neutrino oscillations average out to a classical flavor propagation matrix $\mathscr{P}$. Thus, flavor ratios injected at the cosmic source $W_e,W_\mu,W_\tau$ evolve to flavor ratios at Earthly detectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-04 Lingjun Fu , Chiu Man Ho , Thomas J. Weiler

Neutrinos mix and have mass differences, so decays from one to another must occur. But how fast? The best direct limits on non-radiative decays, based on solar and atmospheric neutrinos, are weak, $\tau \gtrsim 10^{-3}$ s ($m$/eV) or much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Mauricio Bustamante , John F. Beacom , Kohta Murase

The flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos observed in neutrino telescopes is a powerful discriminator between different astrophysical neutrino production mechanisms and can also teach us about the particle physics properties of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-18 Vedran Brdar , Joachim Kopp , Xiao-Ping Wang

The observed excess of high-energy cosmic rays from the Galactic plane in the energy range \sim 10^18 eV may be naturally explained by neutron primaries generated in the photo-dissociation of heavy nuclei. In this scenario, neutrons with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 P. D. Serpico , M. Kachelriess

Within the standard propagation scenario, the flavor ratios of high-energy cosmic neutrinos at neutrino telescopes are expected to be around the democratic benchmark resulting from hadronic sources, $\left( 1 : 1 : 1 \right)_\oplus$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Yasaman Farzan , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Astrophysical neutrinos are powerful tools to investigate the fundamental properties of particle physics through their flavor content. In this paper, we perform the first general new physics study on ultra high energy neutrino flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Carlos A. Argüelles , Teppei Katori , Jordi Salvado

We examine the feasibility of deriving neutrino mixing parameters $\delta$ and $\theta_{13}$ from the cosmic neutrino flavor composition under the assumption that the flavor ratios of the cosmic neutrinos at the source were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-09 Arman Esmaili , Yasaman Farzan

Observation of ultra-high energy astrophysical neutrinos and identification of their flavors have been proposed for future neutrino telescopes. The flavor ratio of astrophysical neutrinos observed on the Earth depends on both the initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-12 Kwang-Chang Lai , Guey-Lin Lin , Tsung-Che Liu

We present the reconstruction of neutrino flavor ratios at astrophysical sources. For distinguishing the pion source and the muon-damped source to the 3$\sigma$ level, the neutrino flux ratios,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kwang-Chang Lai , Guey-Lin Lin , T. C. Liu

Observation of the ultra-high energy neutrinos, in particular, detection of $\nu_{\tau}$ from cosmologically distant sources like active galactic nuclei (AGN) opens new possibilities to search for neutrino flavor conversion. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Hisakazu Minakata , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

The flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can reveal the physics governing their production, propagation, and interaction. The IceCube Collaboration has published the first experimental determination of the ratio of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Mauricio Bustamante , John F. Beacom , Walter Winter

The pp interactions taking place in the cosmos around us are a source of the astrophysical neutrinos of all the three flavors. In these interactions, the electron and the muon neutrinos mainly come from the production and the decay of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Athar , C. S. Kim , Jake Lee

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

At high densities in compact astrophysical sources, the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos onto each other is responsible for making the flavor evolution non-linear. Under the assumption of spherical symmetry, we present the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We analyze the high-energy neutrino events observed by IceCube, aiming to probe the initial flavor of cosmic neutrinos. We study the track-to-shower ratio of the subset with energy above 60 TeV, where the signal is expected to dominate and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-01 A. Palladino , G. Pagliaroli , F. L. Villante , F. Vissani

We study post weak decoupling coherent active-sterile and active-active matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation in the early universe. We show that flavor conversion efficiency at Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein resonances is likely to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Kevork Abazajian , Nicole F. Bell , George M. Fuller , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Astrophysical neutrinos provide crucial insights into their sources and play a key role in multi-messenger astronomy. The neutrino flavor composition at Earth allows us to probe the mechanisms of neutrino production and cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Neha Lad , Thijs Juan van Eeden , Markus Ackermann

Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to neutrino interactions with the background particles, triggers resonant flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 M. Cristina Volpe

Motivated by the discovery of the first high-energy astrophysical neutrino source, the blazar TXS 0506+056, we revisit the IceCube flavor ratio analysis. Assuming large statistics from identified blazars, collected in the forthcoming years…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-14 Vedran Brdar , Rasmus S. L. Hansen

We examine the commonly explored beyond-standard-model physics scenario of secret neutrino forces, and point out a model prediction that appears to have been overlooked: the generation of unique flavor-changing effects in experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-18 B. J. P. Jones , J. Spitz