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When neutrinos propagate in a background, their gravitational couplings are modified by their weak interactions with the particles in the background. In a medium that contains electrons but no muons or taons, the matter-induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 H. Athar , Jose F. Nieves

Neutrino with magnetic moment can experience a chirality flip while scattering off charged particles. This effect may lead to important consequences for the dynamics and the neutrino signal of the core-collapse supernova. It is known that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Sergei Blinnikov

We investigate the effect of resonant spin conversion of the neutrinos induced by the geometrical phase in a twisting magnetic field. We find that the geometrical phase originating from the rotation of the transverse magnetic field along…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-06 Sudip Jana , Yago Porto

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy gamma-rays and are considered to be promising candidates to be sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos as well. We present and discuss various models for ion acceleration and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-13 Kohta Murase , Floyd W. Stecker

New effects of nontrivial neutrino electromagnetic properties are investigated on the basis of exact solutions of the modified Dirac equations for neutrinos in dense magnetized rotating matter. The effect of spatial separation of different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Alexander Studenikin , Ilya Tokarev

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are known as sources of high energy gamma-rays. The emission probably results from non-thermal radiation of relativistic jets belonging to the AGN. Earlier investigations of these processes have suggested that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Schuster , M. Pohl , R. Schlickeiser

The ${\it {spin \ \ light \ \ of \ \ neutrino}}$ ($SL\nu$) is a new possible mechanism of electromagnetic radiation by a massive neutrino (with a nonzero magnetic moment) moving in media. Since the prediction of this mechanism, the question…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Alexander Grigoriev , Alexey Lokhov , Alexander Studenikin , Alexei Ternov

Motivated by the stringent flux limits for UHE neutrinos coming from gamma ray burst or active galactic nuclei, we explore the possibility that the active neutrinos generated in such astrophysical objects could oscillate to sterile right…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-05 J. Barranco , O. G. Miranda , C. A. Moura , A. Parada

I discuss in some detail the spin-flavour conversions of neutrinos in the almost isotopically neutral region of collapsing stars along with the resulting experimental signatures. In particular, I show that for realistic magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Athar Husain

We explore possible physical origin of correlation between radio wave and very-high-energy neutrino emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN), suggested by recently reported evidence for correlation between neutrino arrival directions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrii Neronov , Dmitry Semikoz

The presence of light (m_a ~ 10^-6 ev) scalar fields in the early universe can modify the cosmology of neutrinos considerably by allowing their masses to vary on cosmological times. In this paper, we consider the effect of Planck-suppressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Neal Weiner , Kathryn Zurek

We study matter effects on oscillations of high-energy neutrinos in the Universe. Substantial effect can be produced by scattering of the neutrinos from cosmological sources ($z\gta 1$) on the relic neutrino background, provided that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 C. Lunardini , A. Yu. Smirnov

Neutrino interactions play a central role in transport and flavor evolution in the ejecta of binary neutron star mergers. Simulations suggest that neutron star mergers may produce magnetic fields as strong as $10^{17}$ G, but computational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Mia Kumamoto , Catherine Welch

We propose a test for non-standard neutrino-neutrino interactions by using ultrahigh energy AGN neutrinos. Such interactions would influence the AGN neutrino flux due to collisions with cosmic background neutrinos. For typical AGN neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Petteri Keränen

If massive neutrinos possess magnetic moments, a magnetic field can cause a spin flip. In the case of Dirac neutrinos the spin flip converts an active neutrino into a sterile one and vice versa. By contrast, if neutrinos are Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Domokos , S. Kovesi-Domokos

We predict a new mechanism for the spin light of neutrino ($SL\nu$) that can be emitted by a neutrino moving in gravitational fields. This effect is studied on the basis of the quasiclassical equation for the neutrino spin evolution in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Maxim Dvornikov , Alexander Grigoriev , Alexander Studenikin

We present a quantitative study of the $\nu N$ cross section in the neutrino energy range $10^4<E_{\nu}<10^{14}$ GeV within two transversal QCD approaches: NLO DGLAP evolution using different sets of PDFs and BK small-$x$ evolution with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-05 Javier L. Albacete , José I. Illana , Alba Soto-Ontoso

The ultra-strong magnetic field of magnetars modifies the neutrino cross section due to the parity violation of the weak interaction and can induce asymmetric propagation of neutrinos. Such an anisotropic neutrino radiation transfers not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Yudai Suwa , Teruaki Enoto

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been suggested to be sources of very high energy neutrinos. We consider the possibility of using AGN neutrinos to test neutrino mixings. From the atmospheric, solar and laboratory data on neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 Luis Bento , Petteri Keränen , Jukka Maalampi

We consider the production of high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN) or in the central regions of radio-loud AGN. We use a model in which acceleration of protons takes place at a shock in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. P. Szabo , R. J. Protheroe