Oscillations of solar atmosphere neutrinos

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2006-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0608321v2

Phys.Rev.D74:093004,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

v2: 11 pages, 8 eps figures. Content added (Sec. III D and Fig. 6), references updated. Matches the published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.093004

The Sun is a source of high energy neutrinos (E > 10 GeV) produced by cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere. We study the impact of three-flavor oscillations (in vacuum and in matter) on solar atmosphere neutrinos, and calculate their observable fluxes at Earth, as well as their event rates in a kilometer-scale detector in water or ice. We find that peculiar three-flavor oscillation effects in matter, which can occur in the energy range probed by solar atmosphere neutrinos, are significantly suppressed by averaging over the production region and over the neutrino and antineutrino components. In particular, we find that the relation between the neutrino fluxes at the Sun and at the Earth can be approximately expressed in terms of phase-averaged ``vacuum'' oscillations, dominated by a single mixing parameter (the angle theta_23).

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