Cargando…

Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot

We discuss neutrino fluxes and energy dependent flavor ratios of generic cosmic accelerators as a function of size of the acceleration region and magnetic field, which are the parameters of the HILLAS plot. We assume that photohadronic interactions between Fermi accelerated protons and synchrotron p...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hümmer, Svenja, Maltoni, Michele, Winter, Walter, Yaguna, Carlos
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2010
Materias:
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1275577
_version_ 1780920308659650560
author Hümmer, Svenja
Maltoni, Michele
Winter, Walter
Yaguna, Carlos
author_facet Hümmer, Svenja
Maltoni, Michele
Winter, Walter
Yaguna, Carlos
author_sort Hümmer, Svenja
collection CERN
description We discuss neutrino fluxes and energy dependent flavor ratios of generic cosmic accelerators as a function of size of the acceleration region and magnetic field, which are the parameters of the HILLAS plot. We assume that photohadronic interactions between Fermi accelerated protons and synchrotron photons from co-accelerated electrons (or positrons) lead to charged pion production. We include synchrotron cooling of the charged pions and successively produced muons, which then further decay into neutrinos, as well as the helicity dependence of the muon decays. Our photohadronic interaction model includes direct production, higher resonances, and high energy processes in order to model the neutrino flavor and neutrino-antineutrino ratios with sufficient accuracy. Since we assume that the sources are assumed to be optically thin to neutron interactions, we include the neutrino fluxes from neutron decays. We classify the HILLAS plot into regions with different characteristic flavor ratios over 20x24 orders of magnitude in R and B. In some examples with sizable magnetic fields, we recover neutron beam, pion beam, and muon damped beam as a function of energy. However, we also find anomalous or new sources, such as muon beam sources with a flavor ratio nu_e:nu_mu:nu_tau of 1:1:0 in energy regions where the synchrotron-damped muons pile up. We also discuss the use of the Glashow resonance to identify $p\gamma$ optically thin sources wi th a strong imbalance between pi^+ and pi^- production. We find that these can, in principle, be identified in most cases in spite of the pi^- contamination from high energy photohadronic processes and the mixing parameter uncertainties.
format info:eu-repo/semantics/article
id cern-1275577
institution Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear
language eng
publishDate 2010
record_format invenio
spelling cern-12755772019-09-30T06:29:59Z http://cds.cern.ch/record/1275577 eng Hümmer, Svenja Maltoni, Michele Winter, Walter Yaguna, Carlos Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot Astrophysics and Astronomy We discuss neutrino fluxes and energy dependent flavor ratios of generic cosmic accelerators as a function of size of the acceleration region and magnetic field, which are the parameters of the HILLAS plot. We assume that photohadronic interactions between Fermi accelerated protons and synchrotron photons from co-accelerated electrons (or positrons) lead to charged pion production. We include synchrotron cooling of the charged pions and successively produced muons, which then further decay into neutrinos, as well as the helicity dependence of the muon decays. Our photohadronic interaction model includes direct production, higher resonances, and high energy processes in order to model the neutrino flavor and neutrino-antineutrino ratios with sufficient accuracy. Since we assume that the sources are assumed to be optically thin to neutron interactions, we include the neutrino fluxes from neutron decays. We classify the HILLAS plot into regions with different characteristic flavor ratios over 20x24 orders of magnitude in R and B. In some examples with sizable magnetic fields, we recover neutron beam, pion beam, and muon damped beam as a function of energy. However, we also find anomalous or new sources, such as muon beam sources with a flavor ratio nu_e:nu_mu:nu_tau of 1:1:0 in energy regions where the synchrotron-damped muons pile up. We also discuss the use of the Glashow resonance to identify $p\gamma$ optically thin sources wi th a strong imbalance between pi^+ and pi^- production. We find that these can, in principle, be identified in most cases in spite of the pi^- contamination from high energy photohadronic processes and the mixing parameter uncertainties. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/237920 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Education Level info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://cds.cern.ch/record/1275577 2010-07-02
spellingShingle Astrophysics and Astronomy
Hümmer, Svenja
Maltoni, Michele
Winter, Walter
Yaguna, Carlos
Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot
title Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot
title_full Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot
title_fullStr Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot
title_full_unstemmed Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot
title_short Energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the HILLAS plot
title_sort energy dependent neutrino flavor ratios from generic cosmic accelerators on the hillas plot
topic Astrophysics and Astronomy
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/1275577
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1275577
work_keys_str_mv AT hummersvenja energydependentneutrinoflavorratiosfromgenericcosmicacceleratorsonthehillasplot
AT maltonimichele energydependentneutrinoflavorratiosfromgenericcosmicacceleratorsonthehillasplot
AT winterwalter energydependentneutrinoflavorratiosfromgenericcosmicacceleratorsonthehillasplot
AT yagunacarlos energydependentneutrinoflavorratiosfromgenericcosmicacceleratorsonthehillasplot