TY - JOUR
T1 - Zee-Burst
T2 - A New Probe of Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions at IceCube
AU - Babu, K. S.
AU - Bhupal Dev, P. S.
AU - Jana, Sudip
AU - Sui, Yicong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/1/31
Y1 - 2020/1/31
N2 - We propose a new way to probe nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino data at current and future neutrino telescopes. We consider the Zee model of radiative neutrino mass generation as a prototype, which allows two charged scalars - one SU(2)L doublet and one singlet, both being leptophilic, to be as light as 100 GeV, thereby inducing potentially observable NSI with electrons. We show that these light charged Zee scalars could give rise to a Glashow-like resonance feature in the UHE neutrino event spectrum at the IceCube neutrino observatory and its high-energy upgrade IceCube-Gen2, which can probe a sizable fraction of the allowed NSI parameter space.
AB - We propose a new way to probe nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino data at current and future neutrino telescopes. We consider the Zee model of radiative neutrino mass generation as a prototype, which allows two charged scalars - one SU(2)L doublet and one singlet, both being leptophilic, to be as light as 100 GeV, thereby inducing potentially observable NSI with electrons. We show that these light charged Zee scalars could give rise to a Glashow-like resonance feature in the UHE neutrino event spectrum at the IceCube neutrino observatory and its high-energy upgrade IceCube-Gen2, which can probe a sizable fraction of the allowed NSI parameter space.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85079535981
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.041805
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.041805
M3 - Article
C2 - 32058789
AN - SCOPUS:85079535981
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 124
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 041805
ER -