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Record Nr.

UNINA9910512166603321

Autore

Bose Debanjan

Titolo

High energy astrophysical neutrinos / / Debanjan Bose and Subhendu Rakshit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-91258-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (75 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Astronomy

Disciplina

539.7215

Soggetti

Neutrinos

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Cosmic Rays -- 1.2 How Cosmic Rays Get Accelerated? -- 1.2.1 Hillas Criterion -- 1.2.2 The Connection Between Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and Astrophysical Neutrino Spectra -- 1.3 GZK Cutoff and Cosmogenic Neutrinos -- 1.4 Photon Background -- 1.5 Photon Propagation -- 1.6 Neutrino Propagation -- 1.6.1 Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum -- 1.6.2 Neutrino Oscillations in Matter -- 1.6.3 Neutrino Flavour Ratios at Earth -- 1.6.4 UHE Neutrino Propagation Through the Earth -- 1.6.5 ντ Propagation -- 1.7 Neutrino Cross-Sections -- 1.8 Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model -- 1.8.1 Modifications in Neutrino-Nucleon Cross-Sections -- 1.8.2 Changes in Neutrino Flavour Ratios -- 1.8.3 Testing Violations of Fundamental Symmetry -- References -- 2 Sources of VHE (TeV-PeV) Neutrinos -- 2.1 Galactic Sources -- 2.2 SNR and PWN -- 2.3 Extra-Galactic Sources -- 2.4 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) -- 2.5 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) -- 2.5.1 Neutrino Production in GRBs -- 2.6 Star Bursts Galaxies (SBGs) -- 2.6.1 Tidal Disruptive Events (TDEs) -- 2.6.2 Glashow Resonance -- References -- 3 Detection of High Energy Neutrinos  on the Earth -- 3.1 Ice and Water as Natural Mediums to Detect VHE Neutrinos -- 3.1.1 Neutrino Interactions in Ice and Water -- 3.1.2 Background Events: Atmospheric Muons  and Atmospheric Neutrinos -- 3.1.3 IceCube -- 3.1.4 IceCube Highlights -- 3.1.5 ANTARES -- 3.1.6 Upcoming Neutrino Detectors -- 3.2 Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos -- 3.2.1 Radio Emission by EM



Component of the Cascade -- 3.2.2 ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) -- 3.2.3 Surface Radio Arrays -- 3.3 UHE Neutrino Detection via Moon -- 3.4 Detection of UHE Neutrinos by AUGER Air  Shower Array -- 3.5 Acoustic Detection -- References.