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If massive neutrinos possess magnetic moments, they can undergo spin flip in a magnetic field. The magnetic fields needed for a meaningful measurement of neutrino moments could be very high and may occur in astronomical objects such as some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 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

The high energy neutrino transitions with the photon and electron-positron pair creation in a strong magnetic field in the framework of the Standard Model are investigated. The process probabilities and the mean values of the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. A. Gvozdev , A. V. Kuznetsov , N. V. Mikheev , L. A. Vassilevskaya

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been proposed as environments that can facilitate the capture of extreme-mass-ratio binaries and accelerate their inspiral beyond the rate expected from gravitational wave emission alone. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-25 Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Enrico Cannizzaro

Recent studies have reported a linear correlation between the hard X-ray and high-energy neutrino luminosities of active galactic nuclei (AGN), suggesting a possible physical connection between these two messengers. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Jian-Jun Luo , Ming-Xuan Lu , Yun-Feng Liang

I present a brief review of theory of winds in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Magnetic, radiation, and thermal driving likely operate in AGN. In many cases, it is difficult to distinguish, both from observational and theoretical point of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Proga

We develop the approach to the problem of neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field introduced in \cite{Popov:2019nkr} and extend it to the case of three neutrino generations. The theoretical framework suitable for computation of the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-15 Alexey Lichkunov , Artem Popov , Alexander Studenikin

Accumulation and annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the earth and the sun may be observed by the resulting neutrino signal. We demonstrate that, for certain parts of the SUSY parameter space, present and future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 M. Kowalski

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are known to show flux variability over all observable timescales and across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Over the past decade, a growing number of sources have been observed to show dramatic flux and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-11 Claudio Ricci , Benny Trakhtenbrot

We analyze the possibility of encountering resonant transitions of high energy Majorana neutrinos produced in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We consider gravitational, electromagnetic and matter effects and show that the latter are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Mou Roy , Jose Wudka

We compare the tau neutrino flux arising from the galaxy and the earth atmosphere for 10^3 < E/GeV < 10^11. The intrinsic and oscillated tau neutrino fluxes from both sources are calculated. The intrinsic galactic \nu_{\tau} flux (E > 10^3…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 H. Athar , Kingman Cheung , Guey-Lin Lin , Jie-Jun Tseng

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

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be one of the main source candidates for the high-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrino flux recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino observatory. Nevertheless, several correlation studies between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Maggi , S. Buitink , P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , G. Gentile , J. Leon Tavares , O. Scholten , N. van Eijndhoven , M. Vereecken , T. Winchen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range. These neutrinos have an isotropic distribution on the sky, and therefore, likely originate from extragalactic sources. Active Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Sreetama Goswami , George C. Privon , Marcos Santander

Muon and tau neutrinos ($\nu_x$) interact with protoneutron star matter only via neutral currents and exchange energy with the stellar gas predominantly by neutrino-electron scattering and neutrino-pair processes. In contrast, electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 H. -Thomas Janka

In this paper we give a brief review of the astrophysics of active galactic nuclei (AGN). After a general introduction motivating the study of AGNs, we discuss our present understanding of the inner workings of the central engines, most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 Henric Krawczynski , Ezequiel Treister

We study neutrino spin oscillations while the particles scatter off a rotating black hole surrounded by a thick magnetized accretion disk. Neutrino spin precession is caused by the interaction of the neutrino magnetic moment with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-09 Mridupawan Deka , Maxim Dvornikov

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often exhibit broad-line regions (BLRs), populated by high-velocity clouds in Keplerian orbits around the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) at subparsec scales. During episodes of intense super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Gustavo E. Romero , Pablo Sotomayor

Recently IceCube collaboration has reported first evidence for the astrophysical neutrinos. Observation corresponds to the total astrophysical neutrino flux of the order of $3 \cdot 10^{-8}$ $GeV/cm^2/s/sr$ in a PeV energy range. Active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Oleg Kalashev , Dmitri Semikoz , Igor Tkachev

A theoretical analysis of possible influence of neutrino magnetic moments on the propagation of ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos in the interstellar space is carried out under the assumption of two-neutrino mixing. The exact solution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-23 Podist Kurashvili , Konstantin A. Kouzakov , Levan Chotorlishvili , Alexander I. Studenikin