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We study the possibility to perform neutrino oscillation tomography and to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy in kilometer-scale ice Cerenkov detectors by means of the theta13-driven matter effects which occur during the propagation of…

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There are profound connections between neutrino physics and nuclear experiments. Exceptionally precise measurements of single and double beta-decay spectra illuminate the scale and nature of neutrino mass and may finally answer the question…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-26 D. S. Parno , A. W. P. Poon , V. Singh

Neutrino oscillations in the Earth matter may introduce peculiar modulations in the supernova (SN) neutrino spectra. The detection of this effect has been proposed as diagnostic tool for the neutrino mass hierarchy at "large" 1-3 leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Enrico Borriello , Sovan Chakraborty , Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Irene Tamborra

The fact that neutrinos have mass and can oscillate from one flavor to another has opened up a wide range of neutrino flavor measurements. Those measurements could uncover the source of CP violation that lead to the baryon asymmetry present…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-07-08 D. A. Harris

Exact analytical expressions in terms of generalized confluent hypergeometric functions for the transition amplitudes of neutrino oscillations in presence of matter are computed for an arbitrary number of species. The density of matter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Emilio Torrente-Lujan

Neutrino Oscillation, in which a given flavour of neutrino transforms into another is a powerful tool for probing small neutrino masses. The intrinsic neutrino properties involved are neutrino mass squared difference $\Delta m^2$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Srubabati Goswami

We have investigated matter enhanced neutrino oscillations with a mantle-core-mantle step function and a realistic Earth matter density profile in both a two and a three neutrino scenario. We found that the realistic Earth matter density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Freund , Tommy Ohlsson

Observations of atmospheric neutrinos by the SuperKamiokande collaboration have demonstrated large mixing of the muon-neutrino. However the present atmospheric neutrino data does not significantly constrain the associated mixing of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Pantaleone

Atmospheric neutrinos arise from the decay of particles (primarily pions, muons and kaons) produced in the collision of high energy cosmic ray particles with the atmosphere. The great distances traveled by atmospheric neutrinos between…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert G. Nolty

We update a previous investigation of cosmological effects of a non-standard interaction between neutrinos and dark matter. Parameterizing the elastic-scattering cross section between the two species as a function of the temperature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 P. Serra , F. Zalamea , A. Cooray , G. Mangano , A. Melchiorri

The Sun is a source of high energy neutrinos (E > 10 GeV) produced by cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere. We study the impact of three-flavor oscillations (in vacuum and in matter) on solar atmosphere neutrinos, and calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Mirizzi , D. Montanino , P. D. Serpico

We consider three active flavor neutrino oscillations where both the mass-square differences play a role in atmospheric neutrino problem. We calculate the matter effects arising due to propagation through earth. We demonstrate that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohan Narayan , S. Uma Sankar , IIT Bombay

Thanks to oscillation experiments it is now an established fact that neutrinos are massive particles. Yet, the assessment of neutrinos absolute mass scale is still an outstanding challenge in particle physics and cosmology as oscillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Andrea Giachero

Neutrino mixing and basics of neutrino oscillations are considered. Recent evidences in favour of neutrino oscillations, obtained in the solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, are discussed. Neutrino oscillations in the solar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bilenky

We present an overview of the current status of neutrino oscillation studies at atmospheric neutrino experiments. While the current data gives some tentalising hints regarding the neutrino mass hierarchy, octant of $\theta_{23}$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Sandhya Choubey

We report on the feasibility of using an isotropic flux of cosmic neutrinos in the energy range of 10 to 10,000 TeV to study the interior geophysical structure of the Earth. The angular distribution of events in a $\sim {\rm km}^3$-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Ralston , Pankaj Jain , George M. Frichter

With the advent of time-domain astronomy and the game-changing next generation of telescopes, we have unprecedented opportunities to explore the most energetic events in our Universe through electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Irene Tamborra

Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments are expected to measure the remaining oscillation parameters with very good precision. They will have unprecedented capabilities to search for new physics that modify oscillations. DUNE, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-27 Peter B. Denton , Alessio Giarnetti , Davide Meloni

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

We study neutrino oscillations in a rotating spacetime under the weak gravity limit for the trajectories of neutrinos which are constrained in the equatorial plane. Using the asymptotic form of the Kerr metric, we show that the rotation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-01 Himanshu Swami