Energy-independent new physics in the flavour ratios of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)066zbMATH Open1272.83091arXiv1001.4878WikidataQ59254748 ScholiaQ59254748MaRDI QIDQ367776FDOQ367776

Authors: M. Bustamante, A. M. Gago, C. Peña-Garay 

Publication date: 16 September 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We have studied the consequences of breaking the CPT symmetry in the neutrino sector, using the expected high-energy neutrino flux from distant cosmological sources such as active galaxies. For this purpose we have assumed three different hypotheses for the neutrino production model, characterised by the flavour fluxes at production phi_e^0:phi_mu^0:phi_ au^0 = 1:2:0, 0:1:0, and 1:0:0, and studied the theoretical and experimental expectations for the muon-neutrino flux at Earth, phi_mu, and for the flavour ratios at Earth, R = phi_mu/phi_e and S = phi_ au/phi_mu. CPT violation (CPTV) has been implemented by adding an energy-independent term to the standard neutrino oscillation Hamiltonian. This introduces three new mixing angles, two new eigenvalues and three new phases, all of which have currently unknown values. We have varied the new mixing angles and eigenvalues within certain bounds, together with the parameters associated to pure standard oscillations. Our results indicate that, for the models 1:2:0 and 0:1:0, it might possible to find large deviations for phi_mu, R, and S between the cases without and with CPTV, provided the CPTV eigenvalues lie within 10^{-29}-10^{-27} GeV, or above. Moreover, if CPTV exists, there are certain values of R and S that can be accounted for by up to three production models. If no CPTV were observed, we could set limits on the CPTV eigenvalues of the same order. Detection prospects calculated using IceCube suggest that for the models 1:2:0 and 0:1:0, the modifications due to CPTV are larger and more clearly separable from the standard-oscillations predictions. We conclude that IceCube is potentially able to detect CPTV but that, depending on the values of the CPTV parameters, there could be a mis-determination of the neutrino production model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4878

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modeldiscrete and finite symmetriesneutrino physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Cites Work

• An analysis of cosmic neutrinos: flavor composition at source and neutrino mixing parameters
• High energy astrophysical neutrino flux and modified dispersion relations
• INTRINSIC AND OSCILLATED ASTROPHYSICAL NEUTRINO FLAVOR RATIOS REVISITED

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• High energy astrophysical neutrino flux and modified dispersion relations
• An analysis of cosmic neutrinos: flavor composition at source and neutrino mixing parameters
• Checking T and CPT violation with sterile neutrino
• Neutrinos from cosmic accelerators including magnetic field and flavor effects
• SUSY renormalization group effects in ultra high energy neutrinos
• IceHEP high energy physics at the South Pole
• Test of Lorentz violation with astrophysical neutrino flavor
• Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
• INTRINSIC AND OSCILLATED ASTROPHYSICAL NEUTRINO FLAVOR RATIOS REVISITED

Uses Software

• MACRO detector

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