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The future of high-energy astrophysical neutrino flavor measurements

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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  1. Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada); Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, Kingston ON (Canada); Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  3. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.
In this paper, we critically examine the ability of future neutrino telescopes, including Baikal-GVD, KM3NeT, P-ONE, TAMBO, and IceCube-Gen2, to determine the flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in light of data from next-generation of neutrino oscillation experiments including JUNO, DUNE, and Hyper-Kamiokande. By 2040, the region of allowed flavor composition at Earth will shrink ten-fold, and the flavor composition at the astrophysical sources of the neutrinos will be inferred to within 6%, enough to pinpoint the dominant neutrino production mechanism and to identify possible sub-dominant mechanisms. These conclusions hold even in the nonstandard scenario where neutrino mixing is non-unitary, a scenario that will be probed in next-generation experiments such as the IceCube-Upgrade. As an illustration, we show that future experiments are sensitive to decay rates of the heavier neutrinos to below 1.8 × 10-5 (m/eV) s-1 at 95% credibility by 2040.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Villum Fonden
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1798649
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1831478
OSTI ID: 23181607
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB--21-006-T; arXiv:2012.12893
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 04 Vol. 2021; ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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