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Title: | Probing Planck scale physics with IceCube |
Author: | Anchordoqui, Luis A. Goldberg, Haim González García, Ma. Concepción Halzen, Francis Hooper, Dan, 1976- Sarkar, Subir Weiler, Thomas J. |
Keywords: | Teoria quàntica Teoria de camps (Física) Neutrins Astrofísica Quantum theory Field theory (Physics) Neutrinos Astrophysics |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
Abstract: | Neutrino oscillations can be affected by decoherence induced e.g. by Planck scale suppressed interactions with the space-time foam predicted in some approaches to quantum gravity. We study the prospects for observing such effects at IceCube, using the likely flux of TeV antineutrinos from the Cygnus spiral arm. We formulate the statistical analysis for evaluating the sensitivity to quantum decoherence in the presence of the background from atmospheric neutrinos, as well as from plausible cosmic neutrino sources. We demonstrate that IceCube will improve the sensitivity to decoherence effects of O ( E 2 / M Pl ) by 17 orders of magnitude over present limits and, moreover, that it can probe decoherence effects of O ( E 3 / M 2 Pl ) which are well beyond the reach of other experiments. |
Note: | Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.065019 |
It is part of: | Physical Review D, 2005, vol. 72, núm. p. 065019-1-065019-11 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12520 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.065019 |
ISSN: | 0556-2821 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica) |
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