Title
High energy astrophysical neutrino flux and modified dispersion relations
Date Issued
20 December 2009
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Del IPN
Abstract
Motivated by the interest in searches for violation of CPT invariance, we study its possible effects in the flavor ratios of high-energy neutrinos coming from cosmic accelerators. In particular, we focus on the effect of an energy-independent new physics contribution to the neutrino flavor oscillation phase and explore whether it is observable in future detectors. Such a contribution could be related not only to CPT violation but also to a nonuniversal coupling of neutrinos to a torsion field. We conclude that this extra phase contribution only becomes observable, in the best case, at energies greater than 1016.5 GeV, which is about five orders of magnitude higher than the most energetic cosmological neutrinos to be detected in the near future. Therefore, if these effects are present only in the oscillation phase, they are going to be unobservable, unless a new mechanism or source capable to produce neutrinos of such energy were detected. © World Scientific Publishing Company.
Start page
5819
End page
5829
Volume
24
Issue
31
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-73949118690
Source
International Journal of Modern Physics A
ISSN of the container
0217751X
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by grant number 3256 from the Dirección Académica de Investigación of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, by CONACyT México, and by a High Energy Physics Latin American European Network (HELEN) Type AT Grant. M. Bustamante would like to thank the Physics Department at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV) for its hospitality during the development of this work.
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