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The recent observation of the ultrahigh-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A by the KM3NeT experiment offers a compelling avenue to explore physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we explore a simplest possibility that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Kazunori Kohri , Partha Kumar Paul , Narendra Sahu

KM3NeT's detection of a muon track produced by a $\sim 220 \, {\rm PeV}$ neutrino provides an opportunity to probe physics at center-of-momentum energies greater than those probed by the Large Hadron Collider or other existing particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Dan Hooper

KM3NeT has recently reported an event where a muon of energy $120^{+110}_{-60}$ PeV was observed at its ARCA detector, which can stem from a very high-energy neutrino interaction in the vicinity of the detector. Besides revolutionizing our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Ranjini Mondol , Subhadip Bouri , Akash Kumar Saha , Ranjan Laha

The recent detection of the neutrino event KM3-230213A ($\sim$~220 PeV) by the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope, the most energetic ever observed, could represent the long-awaited evidence for a cosmogenic origin, arising from the interaction of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Alessandro Cermenati , Antonio Ambrosone , Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Carmelo Evoli

The flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos observed by the present generation of neutrino detectors has already indicated a few hints of new physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we show that high-energy gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-22 Mansi Dhuria

The recent KM3NeT observation of an ${\cal{O}}(100~{\rm PeV})$ event KM3-230213A is puzzling because IceCube with much larger effective area times exposure has not found any such events. We propose a novel solution to this conundrum in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Writasree Maitra , Louis E. Strigari , Ankur Verma

We review the state of the art in the detection of extreme high-energy neutrinos, focusing on the IceCube and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes. IceCube, operating deep in Antarctic ice, and KM3NeT, a new array in the Mediterranean Sea, employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Lu Lu , Tianlu Yuan

On the 13th February 2023 the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope observed a track-like event compatible with a ultra-high-energy muon with an estimated energy of 120 PeV, produced by a neutrino with an even higher energy, making it the most energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-13 The KM3NeT collaboration

The $220^{+570}_{-100}\,$PeV neutrino detected by KM3NeT marks the beginning of ultra-high-energy neutrino astronomy and provides a powerful probe of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). In superluminal scenarios, neutrinos can decay through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortés , M. A. Reyes

We propose a new way to probe non-standard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino data at current and future neutrino telescopes. We consider the Zee model of radiative neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-03 K. S. Babu , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Sudip Jana , Yicong Sui

Neutrinos offer a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, with TeV-PeV energies, may provide evidence of new, "secret" neutrino-neutrino interactions that are stronger than ordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Mauricio Bustamante , Charlotte Amalie Rosenstroem , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Recently, the KM3NeT experiment reported the detection of a neutrino with exceptionally high energy E = 220 PeV, whose origin remains unclear. The corresponding value of the neutrino flux is in tension with the results of other high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 M. Yu. Kuznetsov , N. A. Petrov , Y. S. Savchenko

The rare detections of astrophysical neutrinos with energies above 5~PeV by two neutrino telescopes underscore the existence of a flux at these energies. In addition to over a decade of data taken by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Marco S. Muzio , Tianlu Yuan , Lu Lu

Astrophysical neutrinos travel long distances from their sources to the Earth traversing dark matter halos of clusters of galaxies and that of our own Milky Way. The interaction of neutrinos with dark matter may affect the flux of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Ki-Young Choi , Jongkuk Kim , Carsten Rott

Recently, a high-energy neutrino event, designated KM3-230213A, was observed by the KM3NeT/ARCA detector in the Mediterranean Sea. This event is characterized by a reconstructed muon energy of approximately 120 PeV, corresponding to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-12 Yuma Narita , Wen Yin

We present new constraints on neutrino secret interactions ($\nu$SI) by studying high-energy neutrinos from well-known astrophysical sources, such as SN1987A, the blazars TXS $0506+056$ and PKS $0735+178$, the active galaxy NGC 1068, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-08 Maria Petropavlova

In 2023, KM3NeT observed the highest energy neutrino seen to date. The most probable estimate places the energy of the neutrino at an extreme value of 220 PeV, and energies up to 2.6 EeV are contained in the $90\%$ probability interval.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Alejandro Muñoz-Ovalle , Stefan Vogl

Current data on ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays suggest they are predominantly made of heavy nuclei. This indicates that the flux of neutrinos produced from proton collisions on the cosmic microwave background is small and hard to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Gustavo F. S. Alves , Matheus Hostert , Maxim Pospelov

The interaction between the ejecta of supernovae (SNe) of Type IIn and a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) can efficiently generate thermal UV/optical radiation and lead to the emission of neutrinos in the $1$-$10^{3}$~TeV range. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Tetyana Pitik , Irene Tamborra , Massimiliano Lincetto , Anna Franckowiak

The KM3NeT Collaboration reported the detection of a neutrino, designated as KM3-230213A, with a reconstructed energy peaking at 220 PeV and equatorial coordinates (J2000) of RA=$94.3\degree$ and Dec=$-7.8\degree$. As the highest-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 Ruiqi Wang , Bo-Qiang Ma