Upper limits on the cosmic neutrino background from cosmic rays

Císcar-Monsalvatje, Mar; Herrera, Gonzalo; Shoemaker, Ian M.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.110.063036

Title: Upper limits on the cosmic neutrino background from cosmic rays

Journal Article · 23 September 2024 · Physical Review. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.063036 · OSTI ID:2447658

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; Shoemaker, Ian M.

Extragalactic and galactic cosmic rays scatter with the cosmic neutrino background during propagation to Earth, yielding a flux of relic neutrinos boosted to larger energies. If an overdensity of relic neutrinos is present in galaxies, and neutrinos are massive enough, this flux might be detectable by high-energy neutrino experiments. For a lightest neutrino of mass $m_{ν} \sim 0.1 eV$ , we find an upper limit on the local relic neutrino overdensity of $\sim 10^{13}$ and an upper limit on the relic neutrino overdensity at TXS $0506 + 056$ of $\sim 10^{10}$ . Future experiments like GRAND or IceCube-Gen2 could improve these bounds by orders of magnitude. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

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OSTI ID:: 2447658

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 110; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 2470-0010

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