| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8187564 | Physics Letters B | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We interpret the PeV shower events observed by the IceCube Collaboration as an s-channel enhancement of neutrino-quark scattering by a leptoquark that couples to the Ï-flavor and light quarks. With a leptoquark mass around 0.6 TeV and a steep 1/E2.3 neutrino flux, charged-current scattering gives cascade events at â¼1 PeV and neutral-current scattering gives cascade events at â¼0.5 PeV. This mechanism is also consistent with the paucity of muon-track events above 100 TeV.
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Authors
Vernon Barger, Wai-Yee Keung,