Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10724322 | Physics Letters B | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We study spectral distortions of diffuse ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino flavour fluxes resulting due to physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Even large spectral differences between flavours at the source are massaged into a common shape at earth by SM oscillations, thus, any significant observed spectral differences are an indicator of new physics present in the oscillation probability during propagation. Lorentz symmetry violation (LV) and neutrino decay are examples, and result in significant distortion of the fluxes and of the well-known bounds on them, which may allow UHE detectors to probe LV parameters, lifetimes and the mass hierarchy over a broad range.
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Authors
Atri Bhattacharya, Sandhya Choubey, Raj Gandhi, Atsushi Watanabe,