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Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets

High energy cosmic neutrino fluxes can be produced inside relativistic jets under the envelopes of collapsing stars. In the energy range E ~ (0.3 - 1e5) GeV, flavor conversion of these neutrinos is modified by various matter effects inside the star and the Earth. We present a comprehensive (both ana...

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Autores principales: Razzaque, Soebur, Smirnov, A Yu
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: JHEP 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2010)031
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1230105
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author Razzaque, Soebur
Smirnov, A Yu
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Smirnov, A Yu
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description High energy cosmic neutrino fluxes can be produced inside relativistic jets under the envelopes of collapsing stars. In the energy range E ~ (0.3 - 1e5) GeV, flavor conversion of these neutrinos is modified by various matter effects inside the star and the Earth. We present a comprehensive (both analytic and numerical) description of the flavor conversion of these neutrinos which includes: (i) oscillations inside jets, (ii) flavor-to-mass state transitions in an envelope, (iii) loss of coherence on the way to observer, and (iv) oscillations of the mass states inside the Earth. We show that conversion has several new features which are not realized in other objects, in particular interference effects ("L- and H- wiggles") induced by the adiabaticity violation. The neutrino-neutrino scattering inside jet and inelastic neutrino interactions in the envelope may produce some additional features at E > 1e4 GeV. We study dependence of the probabilities and flavor ratios in the matter-affected region on angles theta13 and theta23, on the CP-phase delta, as well as on the initial flavor content and density profile of the star. We show that measurements of the energy dependence of the flavor ratios will, in principle, allow to determine independently the neutrino and astrophysical parameters.
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spelling cern-12301052019-09-30T06:29:59Z doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2010)031 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1230105 eng Razzaque, Soebur Smirnov, A Yu Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets Particle Physics - Phenomenology High energy cosmic neutrino fluxes can be produced inside relativistic jets under the envelopes of collapsing stars. In the energy range E ~ (0.3 - 1e5) GeV, flavor conversion of these neutrinos is modified by various matter effects inside the star and the Earth. We present a comprehensive (both analytic and numerical) description of the flavor conversion of these neutrinos which includes: (i) oscillations inside jets, (ii) flavor-to-mass state transitions in an envelope, (iii) loss of coherence on the way to observer, and (iv) oscillations of the mass states inside the Earth. We show that conversion has several new features which are not realized in other objects, in particular interference effects ("L- and H- wiggles") induced by the adiabaticity violation. The neutrino-neutrino scattering inside jet and inelastic neutrino interactions in the envelope may produce some additional features at E > 1e4 GeV. We study dependence of the probabilities and flavor ratios in the matter-affected region on angles theta13 and theta23, on the CP-phase delta, as well as on the initial flavor content and density profile of the star. We show that measurements of the energy dependence of the flavor ratios will, in principle, allow to determine independently the neutrino and astrophysical parameters. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/237920 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Education Level info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://cds.cern.ch/record/1230105 JHEP JHEP, (2010) pp. 031 2009-12-22
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Razzaque, Soebur
Smirnov, A Yu
Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
title Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
title_full Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
title_fullStr Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
title_full_unstemmed Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
title_short Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
title_sort flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets
topic Particle Physics - Phenomenology
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2010)031
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