Zee-Burst: A New Probe of Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions at IceCube

Aug 7, 2019
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 124 (2020) 4, 041805
  • Published: Feb 1, 2020
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Report number:
  • OSU-HEP-19-05
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Abstract: (APS)
We propose a new way to probe nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino data at current and future neutrino telescopes. We consider the Zee model of radiative neutrino mass generation as a prototype, which allows two charged scalars—one SU(2)L doublet and one singlet, both being leptophilic, to be as light as 100 GeV, thereby inducing potentially observable NSI with electrons. We show that these light charged Zee scalars could give rise to a Glashow-like resonance feature in the UHE neutrino event spectrum at the IceCube neutrino observatory and its high-energy upgrade IceCube-Gen2, which can probe a sizable fraction of the allowed NSI parameter space.
Note:
  • 7 pages, 2 figures; minor changes and added references, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • neutrino: UHE
  • neutrino: mass generation
  • neutrino: detector
  • neutrino: new interaction
  • lepton: coupling: high
  • Zee model
  • mass: radiative correction
  • neutrino electron: interaction
  • matter: interaction