8 November 2025
Northwestern University Technological Institute
America/Chicago timezone

Large Neutrino "Collider"

8 Nov 2025, 09:00
15m
Tech L211 (Northwestern University Technological Institute)

Tech L211

Northwestern University Technological Institute

2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208

Speaker

Keping Xie (Michigan State University)

Description

We propose using current and future large-volume neutrino telescopes as ``Large Neutrino Colliders" (L$\nu$Cs) to explore TeV-scale physics beyond the Standard Model. Cosmic neutrinos with energies above 100 PeV colliding with nucleons in the detector reach center-of-mass energies beyond the 14 TeV limit of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Using recently predicted and measured high-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrino fluxes from IceCube and KM3NeT, we estimate mass-scale sensitivities for representative new physics scenarios at 1--30 km$^3$ L$\nu$Cs. Our results demonstrate that L$\nu$Cs provide a novel avenue to probe multi-TeV particles with sensitivities comparable to, or even surpassing, those of the LHC.

Authors

Bei Zhou (Fermilab) Keping Xie (Michigan State University) Yang Bai

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