Conveners
Astrophysical Models: (Room 2)
- Chiara Sirignano (PD)
- Mathieu Lamoureux (INFN Padova)
Astrophysical Models: (Room 2)
- Elisa Bernardini (Padova)
- Mathieu Lamoureux (INFN Padova)
Astrophysical Models: (Room 2)
- Marco Grassi (University of Padova - INFN)
- Christian Farnese (PD)
Astrophysical Models: (Room 2)
- Christian Farnese (PD)
- Elisa Bernardini (Padova)
We analyze the effects of a Violation of Equivalence Principle (VEP) on neutrino oscillations, focusing on the recently released IceCube data on atmospheric neutrino fluxes. We obtain the strongest constraints up to date on the parameter space of VEP in the context of neutrino physics with a benchmark choice for the coupling between neutrinos and gravitational field. We also study the effect...
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most promising neutrino source candidates, because of their potential to accelerate cosmic rays and also because of the dense photon fields present in their relativistic jets. In support of this hypothesis, IceCube has already observed several high-energy events from the direction of known blazar AGN like TXS 0506+056 and, more recently, PKS 1502+106....
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest transients in our universe. Given the large amount of energy they release they have been long discussed as sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) - A hypothesis which is challenged by current IceCube neutrino limits. Assuming GRBs to power the UHECR flux, we study different engine realisations in multi-collision internal shock models...
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interact with pervasive photons during propagation. These interactions produce neutrinos, which can provide valuable insights on the elusive sources of UHECRs as well as on the composition of the highest-energy radiation. In this talk I will present realistic predictions for this cosmogenic flux, obtained through fits to UHECR measurements. In light of...
Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that have a relativistic jet with a small viewing angle towards the observer. Recent results based on hadronic scenarios have motivated an ongoing discussion of how a blazar can produce high energy neutrinos during a flaring state and which scenario can successfully describe the observed gamma-ray behavior. Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) is one...
A small fraction of GRBs with available data down to soft X-rays ( ~0.5 keV) have been shown to feature a spectral break in the low energy part of their prompt emission spectrum. The overall spectral shape is consistent with optically thin synchrotron emission from a population of marginally fast cooling particles. If the radiating particles are electrons, this interpretation implies...
Neutrinos are puzzling particles that could answer many of the open questions about our Universe. Unlike any other observed particle, the flavor of neutrinos can feedback into itself in a neutrino-dense astrophysical environment. Such neutrino self-interaction leads to intriguing “fast” flavor conversions that can develop within a few nanoseconds in the core of core-collapse supernovae and...
Several theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model consider that neutrinos can decay. I discuss the sensitivity of the upcoming neutrino telescope KM3NeT-ORCA to this scenario. I show that it could improve the current bounds coming from oscillation experiments, where three-neutrino oscillations have been considered, by roughly two orders of magnitude. I also discuss the robustness...
Starburst Galaxies are known as “reservoirs” of high-energy cosmic rays which potentially could contribute to the astrophysical diffuse neutrino flux measured by IceCube. In this work, we go beyond the standard prototype-based approach, and investigate a model based on a data-driven blending of spectral indexes, thereby capturing the observed changes in the properties of individual emitters....
Largest Solar Flare did burst on Earth hardest gamma photons of pion nature. The associated charged pion decay must also shine hard muon and electron neutrinos. Their detection and their flavor might be observable in largest present or future underground detectors if, at flare peak, they are overcoming the steady atmospheric noise. The present Super Kamiokande neutrino detector recently ...
Neutrino decay modifies neutrino propagation in a unique way; not only is there flavor changing as there is in neutrino oscillations, there is also energy transport from initial to final neutrinos. The most sensitive direct probe of neutrino decay is currently IceCube which can measure the energy and flavor of neutrinos traveling over extragalactic distances. For the first time we calculate...
The next generation of neutrino telescopes, including Baikal-GVD, KM3NeT, P-ONE, TAMBO, and IceCube-Gen2, will be able to determine the flavor of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos with 10% uncertainties. With the aid of future neutrino oscillation experiments --- in particular JUNO, DUNE, and Hyper-Kamiokande --- the regions of flavor composition at Earth that are allowed by neutrino...
The Glashow resonance, which corresponds to the production of a W boson from the resonant interaction between a high-energy electron antineutrino and an electron at rest, offers us a unique signature to disentangle electron antineutrinos from the total high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux. Identification of neutrino flavors in neutrino telescopes is important to the study of production...
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) can be abundantly produced in the sky when cosmic rays impact our atmosphere. In this talk, we present new constraints derived for the signal originating from the decay of these HNLs inside the volume of large Neutrino Telescopes such as IceCube and Super-Kamiokande.
Dark matter can produce a high-energy neutrino flux through decay or annihilation, that can be observed by current and future neutrino telescopes. The neutrino flux from astrophysical, atmospheric and dark matter origin can be distinguished through their different angular distributions, since the dark matter signal will have some correlation with the galactic center. We use the difference in...
Cosmic-rays interacting with nucleons in the solar atmosphere create pions, kaons, and other particles which produce a flux of high-energy neutrinos. Predictions for this flux exist in the literature, but it has yet to be measured by neutrino observatories. Since this flux is an irreducible background for solar WIMP searches currently being carried out by neutrino telescopes, its magnitude...
While there is evidence for the existence of dark matter, its properties have yet to be discovered. Similarly, the nature of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos detected at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory remains unresolved. If dark matter and neutrinos are coupled to each other, they may exhibit a non-zero elastic scattering cross section. Such an interaction between an extragalactic...
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been subject of investigation for a long time, being among the most mysterious and powerful transients occurring in our universe. In the attempt of explaining the observed electromagnetic GRB emission, various models have been proposed, even if an exhaustive theoretical explanation of the mechanism powering GRBs is still lacking. GRBs are also...
The neutrino mass ordering (NMO) is one of the fundamental questions in neutrino physics. KM3NeT/ORCA and JUNO are two neutrino oscillation experiments both aiming at measuring the NMO with different approaches: ORCA with atmospheric neutrinos transversing matter/Earth and JUNO with reactor neutrinos. This talk presents the potential of determining the NMO through a combined analysis of JUNO...
After a decade of Highest Energy Neutrino records at several tens TeV in Icecube we had no observed among first hundred of events,(exept an unique delayed neutrino-gamma 2017 flare) any sharp correlated brightest gamma-neutrino event. Icecube maps and events did not reveal any galactic plane signature, no significant tau double bangs. On the contrary Icecube found a remarkable
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