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We explore the dynamics of neutrinos in a vacuum dominated cosmology. First we show that such a geometry will induce a phase change in the eigenstates of a massive neutrino and we calculate the phase change. We also calculate the delay in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manasse R. Mbonye

We introduce the possibility to use characteristic natural neutrino backgrounds, such as Geoneutrinos (\bar{\nu}_e) or solar neutrinos (\nu_e), with known spectral shape for the energy calibration of future neutrino detectors, e.g. Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joachim Kopp , Manfred Lindner , Alexander Merle

Neutrinos are likely the most poorly understood basic constituents of the Standard Model. In order to investigate precisely their interactions one should be able to create high intensity and well-collimated neutrino beams with known flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-13 I. Alikhanov

Neutrinos that decay leave their imprint on the cosmic microwave background. We calculate the CMB anisotropy for the full range of decaying neutrino parameter space, and investigate the ability of future experiments like MAP and Planck to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert E. Lopez

We investigate the potential of a future kilometer-scale neutrino telescope such as the proposed IceCube detector in the South Pole, to measure and disentangle the yet unknown components of the cosmic neutrino flux, the prompt atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 D. Hooper , H. Nunokawa , O. L. G. Peres , R. Zukanovich Funchal

Motivated by the interest in searches for violation of CPT invariance, we study its possible effects in the flavour ratios of high-energy neutrinos coming from cosmic accelerators. In particular, we focus on the effect of an energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-06 J. L. Bazo Alba , M. Bustamante , A. M. Gago , O. G. Miranda

The recent discovery and evidence of neutrino signals from distant sources, TXS 0506+056 and NGC 1068 respectively, provide opportunities to search for rare interactions of neutrinos that they might encounter on their paths. One potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Woosik Kang , Carsten Rott

We search for the presence of cosmological neutrino background (CNB) anisotropies in recent WMAP 5-year data using their signature imprinted on modifications to cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum. By parametrizing…

Planned CMB Stage IV experiments have the potential to measure the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom in the early Universe, $N_\text{eff}$, with percent-level accuracy. This probes new thermalized light particles and also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-25 Kevork N. Abazajian , Julian Heeck

Direct detection of the cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B) remains one of the most formidable experimental challenges in modern physics. In this work, we extend recent studies of C$\nu$B-induced coherent transitions in polarised nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Yeray Garcia del Castillo , Giovanni Pierobon , Dipan Sengupta , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Current cosmological data drop an interesting hint about the existence of sub-eV sterile neutrinos, which should be a part of the cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B). We point out that such light sterile neutrinos may leave a distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Y. F. Li , Shu Luo , Zhi-zhong Xing

We calculate neutrino absorption rates due to charged-current reactions $\nu_e+n \rightarrow e^- + p $ and $\bar{\nu}_e+p \rightarrow e^+ + n $ in the outer regions of a newly born neutron star called the neutrino-sphere. To improve on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-08 Ermal Rrapaj , J. W. Holt , Alexander Bartl , Sanjay Reddy , A. Schwenk

The Standard Model predicts a long-range force, proportional to $G_F^2/r^5$, between fermions due to the exchange of a pair of neutrinos. This quantum force is feeble and has not been observed yet. In this paper, we compute this force in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-19 Mitrajyoti Ghosh , Yuval Grossman , Walter Tangarife , Xun-Jie Xu , Bingrong Yu

The electromagnetic properties of neutrinos have attracted considerable attention from researchers for many decades (see [1] for a review). However, until recently, there was no indication in favour of nonzero electromagnetic properties of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-11 Alexander Studenikin

We investigate how much the constraints on the neutrino properties can be improved by combining the CMB, the photometric and spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys which include the CMB lensing, galaxy lensing tomography, galaxy clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kenji Kadota

In this paper, we indicate a possibility of utilizing the intense chromium source ($\sim 370 PBq$) in probing the neutrino nature in low energy neutrino experiments with the ultra-low threshold and background real-time Borexino detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-07 W. Sobków , A. Błaut

Neutrino oscillation experiments in the past decades have greatly improved our knowledge on neutrinos by measuring the fundamental neutrino parameters. The ongoing and upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments are intended to pin down the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-16 Tommy Ohlsson , He Zhang , Shun Zhou

IceCube have observed neutrinos which are presumably of extra-galactic origin. Since specific sources have not yet been identified, we discuss what could be learned from the conceptual point of view. We use a simple model for neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-19 Walter Winter

We present cosmological perturbation theory in neutrino probe interacting dark-energy models, and calculate cosmic microwave background anisotropies and matter power spectrum. In these models, the evolution of the mass of neutrinos is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yong-Yeon Keum

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has proven to be an invaluable tool for studying the properties and interactions of neutrinos, providing insight not only into the sum of neutrino masses but also the free streaming nature of neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Stefan Sandner , Miguel Escudero , Samuel J. Witte