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INTRINSIC AND OSCILLATED ASTROPHYSICAL NEUTRINO FLAVOR RATIOS REVISITED

2006; World Scientific; Volume: 21; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1142/s021773230602038x

1793-6632

H. Athar, C. S. Kim, Jake Lee,

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

The pp interactions taking place in the cosmos around us are a source of the astrophysical neutrinos of all the three flavors. In these interactions, the electron and the muon neutrinos mainly come from the production and the decay of the \pi^{\pm} mesons, whereas the tau neutrinos mainly come from the production and the decay of the D^{\pm}_{S} mesons. We estimate the three intrinsic neutrino flavor ratios for 1 GeV < E < 10^{12} GeV in the pp interactions and found them to be 1 : 2 : 3\times 10^{-5}. We study the effects of neutrino oscillations on these intrinsic ratios. We point out that the three ratios become 1 : 1 : 1 if L(pc)/E(GeV)> 10^{-10} in the presence of neutrino oscillations, where L is the distance to the astrophysical neutrino source in units of parsecs.