TY - JOUR
T1 - Pushing the Energy and Cosmic Frontiers with High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos
AU - Bustamante, Mauricio
N1 - 8 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE 2018), Vienna, 26-30 November 2018. v3: fixed reference
PY - 2019/4/2
Y1 - 2019/4/2
N2 - The astrophysical neutrinos recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino telescope have the highest detected neutrino energies --- from TeV to PeV --- and travel the longest distances --- up to a few Gpc, the size of the observable Universe. These features make them naturally attractive probes of fundamental particle-physics properties, possibly tiny in size, at energy scales unreachable by any other means. The decades before the IceCube discovery saw many proposals of particle-physics studies in this direction. Today, those proposals have become a reality, in spite of prevalent astrophysical unknowns. We showcase examples of studying fundamental neutrino physics at these scales, including some of the most stringent tests of physics beyond the Standard Model.
AB - The astrophysical neutrinos recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino telescope have the highest detected neutrino energies --- from TeV to PeV --- and travel the longest distances --- up to a few Gpc, the size of the observable Universe. These features make them naturally attractive probes of fundamental particle-physics properties, possibly tiny in size, at energy scales unreachable by any other means. The decades before the IceCube discovery saw many proposals of particle-physics studies in this direction. Today, those proposals have become a reality, in spite of prevalent astrophysical unknowns. We showcase examples of studying fundamental neutrino physics at these scales, including some of the most stringent tests of physics beyond the Standard Model.
KW - astro-ph.HE
KW - astro-ph.CO
KW - hep-ph
M3 - Journal article
JO - Proceedings DISCRETE 2018
JF - Proceedings DISCRETE 2018
ER -