2012/01/26 by Walter Winter, Winter, Walter
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.5462
42 pages, 14 figures. Invited review for Advances in High Energy Physics. Comments welcome!
arxiv created 2012/01/26 · openalex publication_date 2012/01/26 · arxiv updated 2012/01/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review the particle physics ingredients affecting the normalization,\nshape, and flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos fluxes, such as\ndifferent production modes, magnetic field effects on the secondaries (muons,\npions, kaons), and flavor mixing, where we focus on p-gamma interactions. We\nalso discuss the interplay with neutrino propagation and detection, including\nthe possibility to detect flavor and its application in particle physics, and\nthe use of the Glashow resonance to discriminate p-gamma from p-p interactions\nin the source. We illustrate the implications on fluxes and flavor composition\nwith two different models: 1) the target photon spectrum is dominated by\nsynchrotron emission of co-accelerated electrons and 2) the target photon\nspectrum follows the observed photon spectrum of gamma-ray bursts. In the\nlatter case, the multi-messenger extrapolation from the gamma-ray fluence to\nthe expected neutrino flux is highlighted.\n