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Garcia Soto, A.; Zhelnin, P.; Safa, I.; Arguelles, C.A. |
| Title |
Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Physical Review Letters |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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128 |
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17 |
Pages |
171101 - 7pp |
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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; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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0031-9007 |
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WOS:000804588400008 |
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no |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5240 |
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Arguelles, C.A.; Muñoz, V.; Shoemaker, I.M.; Takhistov, V. |
| Title |
Hadrophilic light dark matter from the atmosphere |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
| Volume |
833 |
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Pages |
137363 - 6pp |
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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. |
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[Arguelles, Carlos A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: carguelles@fas.harvard.edu; |
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Elsevier |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000865640700036 |
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no |
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yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5388 |
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