IceCube flavor ratios with identified astrophysical sources: towards improving new physics testability
Abstract
Motivated by the discovery of the first high-energy astrophysical neutrino source, the blazar TXS 0506+056, we revisit the IceCube flavor ratio analysis. Assuming large statistics from identified blazars, collected in the forthcoming years by the IceCube detector and its successor IceCube-Gen2, we demonstrate that the constraints on several new physics scenarios in which the baseline dependent terms in neutrino oscillation probabilities are not averaged, can be improved. As a representative case, we consider pseudo-Dirac neutrinos while neutrino decay is also discussed.
- Publication:
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Pub Date:
- February 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1812.05541
- Bibcode:
- 2019JCAP...02..023B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, 5 figures