Double Bangs at IceCube as a Window to the Neutrino Mass Origin
arXiv:2511.07541 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140322
Abstract
Neutrino oscillation parameters are subject to renormalization group (RG) evolution, just like all couplings and masses of Standard Model (SM) particles. Within the SM extended with three massive neutrinos, it is well known that RG running effects in the neutrino sector are small. However, the RG running of the elements of the leptonic mixing (PMNS) matrix below the electroweak symmetry breaking scale can be enhanced in the presence of light neutrinophilic new particles. In this work, using a particular low-scale neutrino mass model as an example, and by taking into account both atmospheric and astrophysical neutrino fluxes, we show that RG running of the PMNS matrix can lead to an increased number of high-energy tau neutrino events at IceCube. This excess manifests as an increased number of spatially displaced showers called ``double bangs". We find that the number of double bangs induced by new physics through RG effects can be comparable to that arising from SM interactions of astrophysical tau neutrinos.
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