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Ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos
Several cosmologically distant astrophysical sources may produce ultra-high
energy cosmic neutrinos (E > 10^6 GeV) of all flavors above the atmospheric
neutrino background. I study the effects of vacuum neutrino flavor mixing on
this cosmic neutrino flux. Prospects for observations of these ultra-high
energy cosmic neutrinos in large underwater/ice neutrino telescopes are also
briefly discussed.Comment: 3 pages, latex, talk given at the 8th Asia Pacific Physics Conference
(APPC2000), 7-10 August, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan (to appear in its proceedings
Neutrino conversions in cosmological gamma-ray burst fireballs
We study neutrino conversions in a recently envisaged source of high-energy
neutrinos (E \geq 10^6 GeV), that is, in the vicinity of cosmological Gamma-Ray
Burst fireballs (GRB). We consider the effects of flavor and spin-flavor
conversions and point out that in both situations, a some what higher than
estimated high energy tau neutrino flux from GRBs is expected in new km^2
surface area under water/ice neutrino telescopes.Comment: 16 pages, latex, one figure included as an eps file; improved and
extended version of hep-ph/9901450 (to appear in Astroparticle Physics
Neutrino Conversions in Active Galactic Nuclei
I discuss the possibility of production of high energy cosmic neutrinos (E
\geq 10^{6} GeV) in cores of active galactic nuclei and study some of the
effects of neutrino mixing on their subsequent propagation. I also discuss the
prospects for observations of these high energy cosmic neutrinos in new km^{2}
surface area underwater/ice neutrino telescopes.Comment: 7 pages, Latex, 1 figure included with epsf, talk given at 9th
Lomonosov Conference on Elemenatry Particle Physics, 20-26 September, 1999,
Moscow, Russia [to appear in its proceedings edited by A. Studeniken
GeV to TeV astrophysical tau neutrinos
Neutrinos with energy greater than GeV are copiously produced in the p(A,p)
interactions occurring in several astrophysical sites such as (i) the earth
atmosphere, (ii) our galactic plane as well as in (iii) the galaxy clusters. A
comparison of the tau and mu neutrino flux in the presence of neutrino
oscillations from these three representative astrophysical sites is presented.
It is pointed out that the non-atmospheric tau neutrino flux starts dominating
over the downward going atmospheric tau neutrino flux for neutrino energy E as
low as 10 GeV. This energy value is much lower than the energy value, E \geq
5\times 10^4 GeV, estimated for the dominance of the non-atmospheric mu
neutrino flux, in the presence of neutrino oscillations. Future prospects for
possible observations of non-atmospheric tau neutrino flux are briefly
mentioned.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures (to appear in PLB
High Energy Cosmic Tau Neutrinos
I discuss the possibility of production of high energy cosmic tau neutrinos
( GeV) in an astrophysical site and study some of the effects of
neutrino mixing on their subsequent propagation. I also discuss the prospects
for observations of these high energy cosmic tau neutrinos through double
shower events in new km surface area under water/ice neutrino telescopes.Comment: 3 pages, Latex (uses espcrc2), 1 figure included with epsf, talk
given at 6th International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and
Underground Physics (TAUP 99), 6-10 September, Paris, France [to appear in
its proceedings in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) edited by M. Froissart, J.
Dumarchez and D. Vignaud
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