Near-future discovery of the diffuse flux of ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos
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Near-future discovery of the diffuse flux of ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos. / Valera, Victor B.; Bustamante, Mauricio; Glaser, Christian.
I: Physical Review D, Bind 107, Nr. 4, 043019, 16.02.2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Near-future discovery of the diffuse flux of ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos
AU - Valera, Victor B.
AU - Bustamante, Mauricio
AU - Glaser, Christian
PY - 2023/2/16
Y1 - 2023/2/16
N2 - Ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos, with EeV-scale energies, carry with them unique insight into fundamental open questions in astrophysics and particle physics. For 50 years, they have evaded discovery, but maybe not for much longer, thanks to new UHE neutrino telescopes, presently under development. We capitalize on this upcoming opportunity by producing state-of-the-art forecasts of the discovery of a diffuse flux of UHE neutrinos in the next 10-20 years. By design, our forecasts are anchored in often-overlooked nuance from theory and experiment; we gear them to the radio array of the planned IceCube-Gen2 detector. We find encouraging prospects: even under conservative analysis choices, most benchmark UHE neutrino flux models from the literature may be discovered within 10 years of detector exposure-many sooner- and may be distinguished from each other. Our results validate the transformative potential of nextgeneration UHE neutrino telescopes.
AB - Ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos, with EeV-scale energies, carry with them unique insight into fundamental open questions in astrophysics and particle physics. For 50 years, they have evaded discovery, but maybe not for much longer, thanks to new UHE neutrino telescopes, presently under development. We capitalize on this upcoming opportunity by producing state-of-the-art forecasts of the discovery of a diffuse flux of UHE neutrinos in the next 10-20 years. By design, our forecasts are anchored in often-overlooked nuance from theory and experiment; we gear them to the radio array of the planned IceCube-Gen2 detector. We find encouraging prospects: even under conservative analysis choices, most benchmark UHE neutrino flux models from the literature may be discovered within 10 years of detector exposure-many sooner- and may be distinguished from each other. Our results validate the transformative potential of nextgeneration UHE neutrino telescopes.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.043019
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.043019
M3 - Journal article
VL - 107
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 2470-0010
IS - 4
M1 - 043019
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