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Constraining the violation of the equivalence principle with IceCube atmospheric neutrino data

A. Esmaili1,2,*, D. R. Gratieri1,3,†, M. M. Guzzo1,‡, P. C. de Holanda1,§, O. L. G. Peres1,4,∥, and G. A. Valdiviesso5,¶

  • 1Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin—UNICAMP, 13083-859 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2Institute of Convergence Fundamental Studies, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Gongreung-ro 232, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-743, Korea
  • 3High and Medium Energy Group, Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Caixa Postal 354, CEP 96010-900 Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • 4Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, I-34010 Trieste, Italy
  • 5Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Unifal-MG, Rod. José Aurélio Vilela, 11999, 37715-400 Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  • *aesmaili@ifi.unicamp.br
  • †gratieri@ifi.unicamp.br
  • ‡guzzo@ifi.unicamp.br
  • §holanda@ifi.unicamp.br
  • ∥orlando@ifi.unicamp.br
  • gustavo.valdiviesso@unifal-mg.edu.br
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Phys. Rev. D 89, 113003 – Published 11 June, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.113003

Abstract

The recent high-statistics high-energy atmospheric neutrino data collected by IceCube open a new window to probe new physics scenarios that are suppressed in lower-energy neutrino experiments. In this paper we analyze the IceCube atmospheric neutrino data to constrain the violation of equivalence principle (VEP) in the framework of three neutrinos with nonuniversal gravitational couplings. In this scenario the effect of the VEP on neutrino oscillation probabilities can be parametrized by two parameters, Δγ21≡γ2−γ1 and Δγ31≡γ3−γ1, where γi’s denote the coupling of neutrino mass eigenstates to the gravitational field. By analyzing the latest muon-tracks data sets of IceCube-40 and IceCube-79, besides providing the two-dimensional allowed regions in the (ϕΔγ21,ϕΔγ31) plane, we obtain the upper limits |ϕΔγ21|<9.1×10−27 (at 90% C.L.), which improves the previous limit by ∼4 orders of magnitude, and |ϕΔγ31|≲6×10−27 (at 90% C.L.), which improves the current limit by ∼1 order of magnitude. Also we discuss in detail and analytically the effect of the VEP on neutrino oscillation probabilities.

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 113003– Published 11 June, 2014
  • Received 26 April 2014

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