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dc.contributor.author | Mena Requejo, Olga | |
dc.contributor.author | Palomares Ruiz, Sergio | |
dc.contributor.author | Vincent, Aaron C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-20T10:46:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-04-20T10:46:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mena Requejo, Olga Palomares Ruiz, Sergio Vincent, Aaron C. 2014 Flavor Composition of the High-Energy Neutrino Events in IceCube Physical Review Letters 113 9 091103 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10550/43238 | |
dc.description.abstract | The IceCube experiment has recently reported the observation of 28 high-energy (> 30 TeV) neutrino events, separated into 21 showers and 7 muon tracks, consistent with an extraterrestrial origin. In this Letter, we compute the compatibility of such an observation with possible combinations of neutrino flavors with relative proportion (alpha(e:)alpha(mu):alpha tau)(circle plus). Although the 7: 21 track-to-shower ratio is naively favored for the canonical (1:1:1)(circle plus) at Earth, this is not true once the atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds are properly accounted for. We find that, for an astrophysical neutrino E-2 energy spectrum, (1:1:1)(circle plus). at Earth is disfavored at 81% C. L. If this proportion does not change, 6 more years of data would be needed to exclude (1:1:1)(circle plus) at Earth at 3 sigma C.L. Indeed, with the recently released 3-yr data, that flavor composition is excluded at 92% C. L. The best fit is obtained for (1:0:0)(circle plus). at Earth, which cannot be achieved from any flavor ratio at sources with averaged oscillations during propagation. If confirmed, this result would suggest either a misunderstanding of the expected background events or a misidentification of tracks as showers, or even more compellingly, some exotic physics which deviates from the standard scenario. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review Letters, 2014, vol. 113, num. 9, p. 091103 | |
dc.subject | Física | |
dc.title | Flavor Composition of the High-Energy Neutrino Events in IceCube | |
dc.type | journal article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2015-04-20T10:46:56Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.091103 | |
dc.identifier.idgrec | 102125 | |
dc.rights.accessRights | open access | es_ES |