Neutrino Astrophysics

By E. Roulet. 2000

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A general overview of neutrino physics and astrophysics is given, starting with a historical account of the development of our understanding of neutrinos and how they helped to unravel the structure of the Standard Model. We discuss why it is so important to establish if neutrinos are massive and introduce the main scenarios to provide them a mass. The present bounds and the positive indications in favor of non-zero neutrino masses are discussed, including the recent results on atmospheric and solar neutrinos. The major role that neutrinos play in astrophysics and cosmology is illustrated.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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3. C. Peña-Garay
4. Wick Haxton
5. J. Bahcall
6. A. Studenikin
7. C. Giunti
8. Goran Senjanovic

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• Solar Models: Current Epoch and Time Dependences, Neutrinos, and Helioseismological Properties (2000, methodology): “Since the slopes of the straight-line fitting functions are the same in Figure 8 and Figure 9, the neutrino survival probabilities are the same for sterile and for active neutrinos as long as the adiabatic approximation is valid (see, e.g., § 9.2 of Bahcall 1989).”
• Neutrino Masses and Mixing: Evidence and Implications (2002, background): “Experiments that measure the flux of solar neutrinos (Bahcall, 1989) suggest the disappearance of electron neutrinos while propagating within the Sun or between the Sun and the Earth.”
• The nuclear physics of muon capture (2001, background): “This eCect is so important to understand that there are textbooks [51,52] and frequent conferences devoted to this and related subjects.”
• Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Heavy Sterile Neutrinos (2011, background): “On the theoretical side, accepting that neutrinos have masses, see [16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24] and [25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43], the investigation of 0ν2β becomes the most natural option; moreover, the observation of lepton-number violating pr”
• Solar models and solar neutrino oscillations (2004, background): “We also summarize the principal reasons for doing new solar neutrino experiments and what we think may be learned from the future measurements.”
• Neutrino electromagnetic interactions: A window to new physics (2014, background): “ns and notation used in the paper and we list some useful physical constants and formulae. Let us also remind that neutrino electromagnetic prop3 erties and interactions are discussed in the books by Bahcall (1989); Boehm and Vogel (1992); Kim and Pevsner (1993); Raelt (1996); Fukugita and Yanagida ”
• Solar neutrinos: Global analysis and implications for SNO (2001, methodology): “In parallel activities, the theories of vacuum [13] and matter-induced (MSW) [14] neutrino oscillations were developed and explored and the solar models were refined [15] and verified by helioseismology [16].”
• 10,000 Standard Solar Models: A Monte Carlo Simulation (2005, methodology): “In the past, the correlations of solar neutrino fluxes have been taken into account by using the logarithmic partial derivatives of individual neutrino fluxes with respect to 9 input parameters (Bahcall & Ulrich 1988; Bahcall 1989).”
• Neutrino oscillations (2013, background): “A beautiful account of the early stage of this field can be found in the seminal book of John Bahcall [13], where all the steps which brought to shape unambiguously the existence of the experimental puzzle are vividly and clearly explained.”
• Sterile neutrinos in cosmology (2017, unknown): “The first indications of anomalies in the neutrino sector came from the measurement of the flux of electron neutrinos coming from the Sun by the Davis Experiment [36], which found that flux to be about a third of that predicted flux from solar models [37, 38, 39].”
• Dark energy from mass varying neutrinos (2003, unknown): “1 MeV and a flux on earth of 6×1010 cm−2s−1 [58].”
• Solar fusion cross sections II: the pp chain and CNO cycles (2010, background): “of energies spanned by data to the lower energies characterizing the Gamow peak. A substitution of Eq. (7) into Eq. (6) followed by a Taylor expansion of the argument of the exponentials then yields (Bahcall, 1989) h˙vi 12 = r 2 kT E 0 kT f 0 S e exp[ 3E 0=(kT)] = 1:301 10 14 cm3=s Z 1Z 2 A 1=3 f ”