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hep-ph2026

When CPT Violation Hides in Plain Sight: How CP Measurements Are Compromised and How to Fix Them

Miaochen Jin, Gabriela Barenboim, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

The extraction of the leptonic charge-parity (CP)-violating phase from long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments rests on the assumption of charge-parity-time (CP…

hep-ph2026

Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Neutrino Telescopes

Writasree Maitra, Carlos A. Argüelles, P. S. Bhupal Dev +2

Any observation of charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) would be a clear signal of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Here, we propose a novel CLFV search using neutrino telescop…

hep-ph2026

Towards the Detection of Thermal Solar Neutrinos

Carlos A. Argüelles, Christopher V. Cappiello, P. S. Bhupal Dev +3

We show that keV thermal solar neutrinos, arising from electroweak processes in the solar plasma, are kinematically accessible to large-volume dark matter direct detection ex…

hep-ph2026

Visible inelasticity as a probe of tau flavor content of astrophysical neutrinos

Alex Y. Wen, Carlos A. Argüelles, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Astrophysical neutrinos provide a unique probe of neutrino flavor changes over cosmological baselines. While the tau component of the neutrino flux is expected to arise almost enti…

hep-ph2025

Exploring New Propagation Scales With Galactic Neutrinos

Miller MacDonald, Kiara Carloni, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

The recent observation of high-energy Galactic neutrinos by IceCube allows for searches of new physics affecting neutrino propagation on scales of $O(10^9-10^{15})\,\mathrm{km/GeV}…

hep-ph2025

Seafloor Topography Enhances KM3NeT Sensitivity to ANITA-like Events

Carlos A. Argüelles, Toni Bertólez-Martínez, Alba Burgos-Mondéjar +3

In this article, we introduce the concept of topographic enhancement in the context of ultra-high-energy neutrino detection by underwater neutrino telescopes. We demonstrate that t…

hep-ph2025

Searching for sub-eV Sterile Neutrinos in Neutrino Telescopes

Emilse Cabrera, Miaochen Jin, Carlos A. Argüelles +1

With the forthcoming deployment of IceCube-Upgrade, unprecedented statistics of atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range (1-100) GeV will become available, providing a valuable op…

hep-ph2025

The Milky Way is a Laboratory for New Ultra-long-baseline Neutrino Physics

Miller MacDonald, Kiara Carloni, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory recently published evidence for diffuse neutrino emission from the Galactic Plane at significance. This new source of astrophysical neutrino…

hep-ph2025

Signatures of quasi-Dirac neutrinos in diffuse high-energy astrophysical neutrino data

Kiara Carloni, Yago Porto, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

Although the sources of astrophysical neutrinos are still unknown, they are believed to be produced by a population of sources in the distant universe. Measurements of the diffuse,…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Constraints and Sensitivities for Dipole-Portal Heavy Neutral Leptons from ND280 and its Upgrade

Ming-Shau Liu, Nicholas Kamp, Carlos A. Argüelles

We report new constraints and sensitivities to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) with transition magnetic moments, also known as dipole-portal HNLs. This is accomplished using data from…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

The Neutrino Slice at Muon Colliders

Luc Bojorquez-Lopez, Matheus Hostert, Carlos A. Argüelles +1

Muon colliders provide an exciting new direction to expand the energy frontier of particle physics. We point out a new use of these facilities for neutrino and beyond the Standard…

hep-ph2024

Resonant Neutrino Flavor Conversion in the Atmosphere

Connor Sponsler, Matheus Hostert, Ivan Martinez-Soler +1

Neutrinos produced in the atmosphere traverse a column density of air before being detected at neutrino observatories like IceCube or KM3NeT. In this work, we extend the neutrino f…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Ultra-light Dark Matter Limits from Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor

Carlos A. Argüelles, Kareem Farrag, Teppei Katori

Ultra-light dark matter is a class of dark matter models where the mass of the dark matter particle is very small and the dark matter behaves as a classical field pervading our gal…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Lorentz Violation in Neutrino Oscillations using IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Interferometry

Barbara Skrzypek, Carlos A. Argüelles

Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of spacetime underpinning the Standard Model (SM) and our understanding of high-energy phenomena in particle physics. However, beyond t…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Implications of MicroBooNE's low sensitivity to electron antineutrino interactions in the search for the MiniBooNE excess

Nicholas W. Kamp, Matheus Hostert, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

The MicroBooNE experiment searched for an excess of electron-neutrinos in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), providing direct constraints on -interpretations of the MiniBooNE lo…

hep-ph2022★ 3 cited

Dark Matter decay to neutrinos

Carlos A. Argüelles, Diyaselis Delgado, Avi Friedlander +4

It is possible that the strongest interactions between dark matter and the Standard Model occur via the neutrino sector. Unlike gamma rays and charged particles, neutrinos provide…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Probing Quantum Gravity with Elastic Interactions of Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos

Alfonso Garcia Soto, Diksha Garg, Mary Hall Reno +1

The next generation of radio telescopes will be sensitive to low-scale quantum gravity by measuring ultra-high-energy neutrinos. In this letter, we demonstrate for the first time t…

hep-ph2022★ 21 cited

Dipole-Coupled Neutrissimo Explanations of the MiniBooNE Excess Including Constraints from MINERvA Data

Nicholas W. Kamp, Matheus Hostert, Austin Schneider +5

We revisit models of heavy neutral leptons (neutrissimos) with transition magnetic moments as explanations of the excess of electron-like events at MiniBooNE. We perform a d…

hep-ph2022

The Physics of Light Relics

Cora Dvorkin, Joel Meyers, Peter Adshead +19

Many well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of new light species that may have been produced in the early universe. Prominent examples include axions…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

High-Energy and Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos

Markus Ackermann, Sanjib K. Agarwalla, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz +43

Astrophysical neutrinos are excellent probes of astroparticle physics and high-energy physics. With energies far beyond solar, supernovae, atmospheric, and accelerator neutrinos, h…

hep-ph2022★ 54 cited

Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV

Roshan Mammen Abraham, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Carlos A. Argüelles +63

Tau neutrinos are the least studied particle in the Standard Model. This whitepaper discusses the current and expected upcoming status of tau neutrino physics with attention to the…

hep-ph2021★ 8 cited

Cascade Appearance Signatures of Sterile Neutrinos at 1-100 TeV

Benjamin R. Smithers, Benjamin J. P. Jones, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

Neutrino telescopes provide strong sensitivity to sterile neutrino oscillations through matter-enhanced oscillation, occurring in the few TeV energy range for eV-scale neutri…

hep-ph2021★ 44 cited

Explaining the MiniBooNE Excess Through a Mixed Model of Oscillation and Decay

Stefano Vergani, Nicholas W. Kamp, Alejandro Diaz +4

The electron-like excess observed by the MiniBooNE experiment is explained with a model comprising a new low mass state ( eV) participating in neutrino oscillations…

hep-ph2019

Searches for Connections Between Dark Matter and Neutrinos with the IceCube High-Energy Starting Event Sample

Carlos A. Argüelles, Hrvoje Dujmovic

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most important open questions in physics. Although dark matter effects have only been observed gravitationally, the order-one ratio bet…