2000/11/30 by Luis A. Anchordoqui, Luis Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg +7 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) #Electroweak interaction #Electroweak scale #Neutrino #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Observable #Observatory #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum mechanics #Scale (ratio) #Sigma #astro-ph #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.63.124009
published as Phys.Rev.D63:124009,2001 · 7 pages revtex, 5 eps figs
arxiv created 2001/02/05 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
One of the possible consequences of the existence of extra degrees of freedom beyond the electroweak scale is the increase of neutrino-nucleon cross sections (\ensuremathσ_\ensuremathνN) beyond standard model predictions. At ultrahigh energies this may allow the existence of neutrino-initiated extensive air showers. In this paper, we examine the most relevant observables of such showers. Our analysis indicates that the future Pierre Auger Observatory could be potentially powerful in probing models with large compact dimensions.