Matter effects on the flavor conversions of solar neutrinos and high-energy astrophysical neutrinos

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.04.024zbMATH Open1390.85025arXiv1803.02037OpenAlexW2790961963WikidataQ129889354 ScholiaQ129889354MaRDI QIDQ1637451FDOQ1637451

Authors: Guo-yuan Huang, Jun-Hao Liu, Shun Zhou 

Publication date: 8 June 2018

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Can we observe the solar eclipses in the neutrino light? In principle, this is possible by identifying the lunar matter effects on the flavor conversions of solar neutrinos when they traverse the Moon before reaching the detectors at the Earth. Unfortunately, we show that the lunar matter effects on the survival probability of solar ${}^{8}mB$ neutrinos are suppressed by an additional factor of $1.2\mathrm{\%}$, compared to the day-night asymmetry. However, we point out that the matter effects on the flavor conversions of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, when they propagate through the Sun, can be significant. Though the flavor composition of high-energy neutrinos can be remarkably modified, it is quite challenging to observe such effects even in the next-generation of neutrino telescopes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02037

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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• Neutrinos from cosmic accelerators including magnetic field and flavor effects

Cited In (5)

• Solar neutrinos and matter effects
• On the properties of the effective Jarlskog invariant for three-flavor neutrino oscillations in matter
• Sum rules and asymptotic behaviors of neutrino mixing in dense matter
• Solar neutrino observables sensitive to matter effects
• INFLUENCE OF SECOND-ORDER CORRECTIONS TO THE ENERGY-DEPENDENCE OF NEUTRINO FLAVOR CONVERSION FORMULAS

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