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A search for possible radiative decays of solar neutrinos with emission of photons in the visible range was performed during the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. Due to very bad weather conditions our two telescopes were unable to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-21 S. Cecchini , G. Giacomelli , R. Giacomelli , D. Hasegan , O. Maris , V. Popa , R. Serra , M. Serrazanetti , L. Stefanov , L. Tasca , V. Valeanu

I briefly review cosmological bounds on neutrino masses and the underlying gravitational physics at a level appropriate for readers outside the field of cosmology. For the case of three massive neutrinos with standard model freezeout, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

Stellar evolution is modified if energy is lost in a "dark channel" similar to neutrino emission. Comparing modified stellar evolution sequences with observations provides some of the most restrictive limits on axions and other hypothetical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-02 Nicolás Viaux , Márcio Catelan , Peter B. Stetson , Georg Raffelt , Javier Redondo , Aldo A. R. Valcarce , Achim Weiss

The cold dark matter may be in a meta-stable state and decays to other particles with a very long lifetime. If the decaying products of the dark matter are weakly interacting, e.g. neutrinos, then it would have little impact on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen

We constrain the maximum flux from extragalactic neutrino point sources by using diffuse neutrino flux limits. We show that the maximum flux from extragalactic point sources is E^2(dN/dE) < 1.4 x 10^-9 (L_nu/2x10^43 erg/s)^1/3 GeV cm-^2…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-27 Andrea Silvestri , Steven W. Barwick

Neutrinos from dense environments are unique laboratories for astrophysics, particle physics and many-body physics. They tell us about the last stages of the gravitational core-collapse and the explosion of massive stars. These elusive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 M. Cristina Volpe

The recent observations of 50 TeV gamma radiation by HEGRA have the potential of determining the extragalactic flux of infrared radiation. The fact that radiation is observed in the range between 30 and 100 TeV sets an upper limit on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Berezinsky , Lars Bergström , H. R. Rubinstein

We discuss the transition radiation of a neutrino induced by its toroid dipole moment ($\tau$) when crossing the interface between two different media with different refraction indices. A neutrino of 1 MeV energy emits approximately…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Elena N. Bukina , Vladimir M. Dubovik , Valentin E. Kuznetsov

We study gravitational lensing of the cosmic neutrino background. This signal is undetectable for the foreseeable future, but there is a rich trove of information available. At least some of the neutrinos from the early universe will be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Gilbert Holder

Recently, the Fermi-LAT collaboration reported upper limits on the GeV gamma-ray flux from nearby clusters of galaxies. Motivated by these limits, we study corresponding constraints on gamma-ray emissions from two specific decaying dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Jiwei Ke , Mingxing Luo , Liucheng Wang , Guohuai Zhu

We study absorption of ultra high energy neutrinos by the cosmic neutrino background, with full inclusion of the effect of the thermal distribution of the background on the resonant annihilation channel. For a hierarchical neutrino mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-27 Cecilia Lunardini , Eray Sabancilar , Lili Yang

If massive sterile neutrinos exist, their decays into photons and/or electron-positron pairs may give rise to observable consequences. We consider the possibility that MeV sterile neutrino decays lead to the diffuse positron annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. H. Chan , M. -C. Chu

If large extra dimensions exist in nature, supernova (SN) cores will emit large fluxes of Kaluza-Klein gravitons, producing a cosmic background of these particles with energies and masses up to about 100 MeV. Radiative decays then give rise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Steen Hannestad , Georg Raffelt

We propose that supernova relic neutrino (SRN) observation can be used to set constraints on the neutrino decay models. Because of the long distance scale from cosmological supernovae to the Earth, SRN have possibility to provide much…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin'ichiro Ando

Neutrinos can play an important role in the evolution of the Universe, modifying some of the cosmological observables. In this contribution we summarize the main aspects of cosmological relic neutrinos and we describe how the precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

I summarize some constraints on the physics of neutron stars arising from X-ray observations of the surfaces of neutron stars, focusing on using models of low-magnetic-field neutron star atmospheres to interpret their X-ray spectra. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Craig O. Heinke

We present new calculations of the evolving UV background out to the epoch of cosmological reionization and make predictions for the amount of GeV gamma-ray attenuation by electron-positron pair production. Our results are based on recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rudy C. Gilmore , Piero Madau , Joel R. Primack , Rachel S. Somerville , Francesco Haardt

We estimate constraints on the existence of a heavy, mostly sterile neutrino with mass between 10 eV and 1 TeV. We improve upon previous analyses by performing a global combination and expanding the experimental inputs to simultaneously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 André de Gouvêa , Andrew Kobach

This paper is a brief review of the status of the search for astrophysical neutrinos of high energy. Its emphasis is on the search for a hard spectrum of neutrinos from the whole Northern sky above the steeply falling background of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Thomas K. Gaisser

The timing data of the binary pulsar PSR1913+16, are used to establish an upper limit on the rate of continuous neutrino emission from neutron stars. Neutrino emission from each of the neutron stars of the binary system, increases the star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-23 Itzhak Goldman , Shmuel Nussinov