Neutrinos from Cosmic Accelerators including Magnetic Field and Flavor Effects
Author(s) -
Walter Winter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advances in high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1687-7365
pISSN - 1687-7357
DOI - 10.1155/2012/586413
Subject(s) - physics , neutrino , particle physics , nuclear physics
We review the particle physics ingredients affecting the normalization, shape, and flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos fluxes, such as different production modes, magnetic field effects on the secondaries (muons, pions, and kaons), and flavor mixing, where we focus on pγ interactions. We also discuss the interplay with neutrino propagation and detection, including the possibility to detect flavor and its application in particle physics, and the use of the Glashow resonance to discriminate pγ from pp interactions in the source. We illustrate the implications on fluxes and flavor composition with two different models: (1) the target photon spectrum is dominated by synchrotron emission of coaccelerated electrons and (2) the target photon spectrum follows the observed photon spectrum of gamma-ray bursts. In the latter case, the multimessenger extrapolation from the gamma-ray fluence to the expected neutrino flux is highlighted
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