Published March 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Unparticle effects in neutrino telescopes

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, (7600) Mar del Plata (Argentina)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional, Bogota (Colombia)
  • 3. Instituto de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica, Igua 4225, 11400 Montevideo (Uruguay)

Description

Recently H. Georgi has introduced the concept of unparticles in order to describe the low energy physics of a nontrivial scale invariant sector of an effective theory. We investigate its physical effects on the neutrino flux to be detected in a kilometer cubic neutrino telescope such as IceCube. We study the effects, on different observables, of the survival neutrino flux after through the Earth, and the regeneration originated in the neutral currents. We calculate the contribution of unparticle physics to the neutrino-nucleon interaction and, then, to the observables in order to evaluate detectable effects in IceCUbe. Our results are compared with the bounds obtained by other nonunderground experiments. Finally, the results are presented as an exclusion plot in the relevant parameters of the new physics stuff.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 053005-053005.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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