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Author (up) Arguelles, C.A. et al; Barenboim, G.
Title Snowmass white paper: beyond the standard model effects on neutrino flavor Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication European Physical Journal C Abbreviated Journal Eur. Phys. J. C
Volume 83 Issue 1 Pages 15 - 57pp
Keywords
Abstract Neutrinos are one of the most promising messengers for signals of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). On the theoretical side, their elusive nature, combined with their unknown mass mechanism, seems to indicate that the neutrino sector is indeed opening a window to new physics. On the experimental side, several long-standing anomalies have been reported in the past decades, providing a strong motivation to thoroughly test the standard three-neutrino oscillation paradigm. In this Snowmass21 white paper, we explore the potential of current and future neutrino experiments to explore BSM effects on neutrino flavor during the next decade.
Address [Arguelles, C. A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: pilar.coloma@ift.csic.es;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1434-6044 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000912507200001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5459
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Author (up) Arguelles, C.A.; Coloma, P.; Hernandez, P.; Muñoz, V.
Title Searches for atmospheric long-lived particles Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 02 Issue 2 Pages 190 - 34pp
Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics; Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos
Abstract Long-lived particles are predicted in extensions of the Standard Model that involve relatively light but very weakly interacting sectors. In this paper we consider the possibility that some of these particles are produced in atmospheric cosmic ray showers, and their decay intercepted by neutrino detectors such as IceCube or Super-Kamiokande. We present the methodology and evaluate the sensitivity of these searches in various scenarios, including extensions with heavy neutral leptons in models of massive neutrinos, models with an extra U(1) gauge symmetry, and a combination of both in a U(1)(B-L) model. Our results are shown as a function of the production rate and the lifetime of the corresponding long-lived particles.
Address [Arguelles, C.] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA, Email: caad@mit.edu;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000518622800001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4323
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Author (up) Arguelles, C.A.; Kelly, K.J.; Muñoz, V.M.
Title Millicharged particles from the heavens: single- and multiple-scattering signatures Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 11 Issue 11 Pages 099 - 34pp
Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics
Abstract For nearly a century, studying cosmic-ray air showers has driven progress in our understanding of elementary particle physics. In this work, we revisit the production of millicharged particles in these atmospheric showers and provide new constraints for XENON1T and Super-Kamiokande and new sensitivity estimates of current and future detectors, such as JUNO. We discuss distinct search strategies, specifically studies of single-energy-deposition events, where one electron in the detector receives a relatively large energy transfer, as well as multiple-scattering events consisting of (at least) two relatively small energy depositions. We demonstrate that these atmospheric search strategies especially the multiple-scattering signature – provide significant room for improvement beyond existing searches, in a way that is complementary to anthropogenic, beam-based searches for MeV-GeV millicharged particles. Finally, we also discuss the implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation for millicharged particle detection in large-volume neutrino detectors, such as IceCube.
Address [Arguelles, Carlos A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: carguelles@fas.harvard.edu;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000718091700002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5038
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Author (up) Arguelles, C.A.; Muñoz, V.; Shoemaker, I.M.; Takhistov, V.
Title Hadrophilic light dark matter from the atmosphere Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 833 Issue Pages 137363 - 6pp
Keywords
Abstract Light sub-GeV dark matter (DM) constitutes an underexplored target, beyond the optimized sensitivity of typical direct DM detection experiments. We comprehensively investigate hadrophilic light DM produced from cosmic-ray collisions with the atmosphere. The resulting relativistic DM, originating from meson decays, can be efficiently observed in variety of experiments, such as XENON1T. We include for the first time decays of eta, eta' and K+ mesons, leading to improved limits for DM masses above few hundred MeV. We incorporate an exact treatment of the DM attenuation in Earth and demonstrate that nuclear form factor effects can significantly impact the resulting testable DM parameter space. Further, we establish projections for upcoming experiments, such as DARWIN, over a wide range of DM masses below the GeV scale.
Address [Arguelles, Carlos A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: carguelles@fas.harvard.edu;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0370-2693 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000865640700036 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5388
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Author (up) Arguelles, C.A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Schneider, A.; Wille, L.; Yuan, T.L.
Title Unified atmospheric neutrino passing fractions for large-scale neutrino telescopes Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 07 Issue 7 Pages 047 - 41pp
Keywords neutrino detectors; neutrino experiments; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos
Abstract The atmospheric neutrino passing fraction, or self-veto, is defined as the probability for an atmospheric neutrino not to be accompanied by a detectable muon from the same cosmic-ray air shower. Building upon previous work, we propose a redefinition of the passing fractions by unifying the treatment for muon and electron neutrinos. Several approximations have also been removed. This enables performing detailed estimations of the uncertainties in the passing fractions from several inputs: muon losses, cosmic-ray spectrum, hadronic-interaction models and atmosphere-density profiles. We also study the passing fractions under variations of the detector configuration: depth, surrounding medium and muon veto trigger probability. The calculation exhibits excellent agreement with passing fractions obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, we provide a general software framework to implement this veto technique for all large-scale neutrino observatories.
Address [Arguelle, Carlos A.] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA, Email: caad@mit.edu;
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000439590200003 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3677
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Author (up) Garcia Soto, A.; Garg, D.; Reno, M.H.; Arguelles, C.A.
Title Probing quantum gravity with elastic interactions of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 107 Issue 3 Pages 033009 - 9pp
Keywords
Abstract The next generation of radio telescopes will be sensitive to low-scale quantum gravity by measuring ultrahigh-energy neutrinos. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time that neutrino-nucleon soft interactions induced by TeV-scale gravity would significantly increase the number of events detected by the IceCube-Gen2 radio array in the EeV regime. However, we show that these experiments cannot measure the total cross section using only the angular and energy information of the neutrino flux, unless assumptions on the underlying inelasticity distribution of neutral interactions are made.
Address [Garcia-Soto, A.; Arguelles, C. A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001004183600015 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5557
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Author (up) Garcia Soto, A.; Zhelnin, P.; Safa, I.; Arguelles, C.A.
Title Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication Physical Review Letters Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 128 Issue 17 Pages 171101 - 7pp
Keywords
Abstract High-energy muon and electron neutrinos yield a non-negligible flux of tau neutrinos as they propagate through Earth. In this Letter, we address the impact of this additional component in the PeV and EeV energy regimes for the first time. Above 300 TeV, this contribution is predicted to be significantly larger than the atmospheric background, and it alters current and future neutrino telescopes' capabilities to discover a cosmic tau-neutrino flux. Further, we demonstrate that Earth-skimming neutrino experiments, designed to observe tau neutrinos, will be sensitive to cosmogenic neutrinos even in extreme scenarios without a primary tau-neutrino component.
Address [Soto, A. Garcia; Zhelnin, P.; Safa, I; Arguelles, C. A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: alfonsogarciasoto@fas.harvard.edu;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0031-9007 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000804588400008 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5240
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