کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1853519 1034275 2008 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Implications of leptonic unitarity violation at neutrino telescopes
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک هسته ای و انرژی بالا
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Implications of leptonic unitarity violation at neutrino telescopes
چکیده انگلیسی
A measurement of the ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos at a km3-size neutrino telescope will open a new window to constrain the 3×3 neutrino mixing matrix V and probe possible new physics. We point out that it is in principle possible to examine the non-unitarity of V, which is naturally expected in a class of seesaw models with one or more TeV-scale Majorana neutrinos, by using neutrino telescopes. Considering the UHE neutrinos produced from the decays of charged pions arising from pp and (or) pγ collisions at a distant astrophysical source, we show that their flavor ratios at a terrestrial neutrino telescope may deviate from the democratic flavor distribution ϕeT:ϕμT:ϕτT=1:1:1 due to the seesaw-induced unitarity violation of V. Its effect can be as large as several percent and can serve for an illustration of how sensitive a neutrino telescope should be to this kind of new physics.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physics Letters B - Volume 666, Issue 2, 14 August 2008, Pages 166-172
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