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Atmospheric neutrinos play a vital role in generating irreducible backgrounds in liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors via their neutral-current (NC) interactions with $^{12}$C nuclei. These interactions may affect a wide range of research…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-17 Jie Cheng , Min Li , Yu-Feng Li , Gao-Song Li , Hao-Qi Lu , Liang-Jian Wen

The field of high-energy neutrino astronomy is undergoing a rapid evolution. After the discovery of a diffuse flux of astrophysical TeV-PeV neutrinos in 2013, the IceCube observatory has recently found first compelling evidence for neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Markus Ahlers

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory recently published the discovery of SS 433 as a TeV source, reporting the observation of multi-TeV gamma-ray emission from the jet interaction regions e1 and w1, suggesting in-situ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Chang Dong Rho , Hao Zhou , Segev BenZvi

We propose a 3500 ton (3000 ton fiducial volume) SiO_2 neutrino detector with sampling calorimetry, charged particle tracking, and muon spectrometers to run in a Tevatron Fixed Target Program. Improvements to the Fermilab accelerator…

A challenge to standard leptonic SSC models are so-called orphan TeV flares, i.e. enhanced very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission without any contemporaneous X-ray flaring activity, that have recently been observed in TeV-blazars (e.g.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Reimer , M. Boettcher , S. Postnikov

Blazar flares have been suggested as ideal candidates for enhanced neutrino production. While the neutrino signal of $\gamma$-ray flares has been widely discussed, the neutrino yield of X-ray flares has received less attention. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 S. I. Stathopoulos , M. Petropoulou , P. Giommi , G. Vasilopoulos , P. Padovani , A. Mastichiadis

We propose the operation of \textbf{LEvEL}, the Low-Energy Neutrino Experiment at the LHC, a neutrino detector near the Large Hadron Collider Beam Dump. Such a detector is capable of exploring an intense, low-energy neutrino flux and can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-06 Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado , Alberto Marchionni , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

The investigation of neutrino interactions with matter serves as a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental structure of nucleons and potentially uncovering novel physics phenomena. To date, the neutrino-nucleon cross section has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-21 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

Low fluxes of astrophysical neutrinos at TeV energies and the overwhelming background of atmospheric neutrinos below that, render the current paradigm of neutrino astronomy as a severely statistics limited one. While many hints have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Ankur Sharma

The discovery of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos has the potential to offer unique insight into fundamental questions. To capitalize on the upcoming opportunity provided by new UHE neutrino telescopes, we provide state-of-the-art…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

We consider the prospects for observing the effects of quantum decoherence in high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos from astrophysical sources. In particular, we study Galactic sources of electron anti-neutrinos produced in the decay of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Dan Hooper , Dean Morgan , Elizabeth Winstanley

Since 2010 IceCube observed around 50 high-energy neutrino events of cosmic origin above 60 TeV, but the astrophysical sources of these events are still unknown. We recently proposed high-energy emitting BL Lac (HBL) objects as candidate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-07 C. Righi , F. Tavecchio

Oscillation interpretation of the results from the LSND, MiniBooNE and some other experiments requires existence of sterile neutrino with mass $\sim 1$ eV and mixing with the active neutrinos $|U_{\mu 0}|^2 \sim (0.02 - 0.04)$. It has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-10 Soebur Razzaque , A. Yu. Smirnov

Conventional reactor neutrino experiments are dissapearance experiments, and thus have less sensitivity to small mixing angles than appearance experiments do. It has been recently shown that future reactor neutrino experiments consisiting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose Bernabeu , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

The recent IceCube publication claims the observation of cosmic neutrinos with energies down to $\sim 10$ TeV, reinforcing the growing evidence that the neutrino flux in the 10-100 TeV range is unexpectedly large. Any conceivable source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Antonio Capanema , Arman Esmaili , Kohta Murase

The detection of astrophysical very high energy (VHE) neutrinos in the range of TeV-PeV energies by the IceCube observatory has opened a new season in high energy astrophysics. Energies ~PeV imply that the neutrinos are originated from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-08 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The FASER{\nu} experiment has detected the first neutrino events coming from LHC. Near future high-statistic neutrino samples will allow us to search for new physics within the neutrino sector. Motivated by the forthcoming promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-11 Jesús Miguel Celestino-Ramírez , F. J. Escrihuela , L. J. Flores , O. G. Miranda

High-energy neutrinos, arising from decays of mesons that were produced through the cosmic rays collisions with air nuclei, form unavoidable background noise in the astrophysical neutrino detection problem. The atmospheric neutrino flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-13 S. I. Sinegovsky , A. A. Kochanov , T. S. Sinegovskaya

The production of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos is tightly linked to the emission of hadronic gamma-rays. I will discuss the recent observation of TeV to PeV neutrinos by the IceCube Cherenkov telescope in the context of gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Markus Ahlers