Speaker
Shirley Li
(The Ohio State University)
Description
We are entering a new era of neutrino astronomy with the recent IceCube discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Important questions, such as what their sources are, arise with these events. The flavor composition of these neutrinos has been identified as a rich observable, containing information about the production processes and neutrino properties. So far, only $\nu_\mu$ charged current interactions can be uniquely identified in IceCube. We propose new methods that can help identify $\nu_\tau$ events. Our method could significantly enhance the IceCube flavor measurement sensitivity, making it possible to tell if new physics is required to explain the flavor composition.
Primary author
Shirley Li
(The Ohio State University)
Co-authors
John Beacom
(The Ohio State University)
Dr
Mauricio Bustamante
(Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, The Ohio State University)
