11–13 May 2026
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Widen the Resonance: Probing a New Regime of Neutrino Self-Interactions with Cosmic Neutrinos

12 May 2026, 14:15
15m
David Lawrence Hall 203, University of Pittsburgh

David Lawrence Hall 203, University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Bei Zhou (Fermilab)

Description

Neutrino self-interactions beyond the Standard Model are well motivated by nonzero neutrino masses. We explore a scenario in which the lightest neutrino species remains relativistic today, leading to a broadened “widened” resonance in neutrino scattering that enhances sensitivity to new physics. This effect enables probes of neutrino self-interactions across a wide mediator mass range: (1) Hyper-Kamiokande observations of the diffuse supernova neutrino background can reach sub-keV mediators with couplings as small as g∼1e-8 (2501.07624 PRL); (2) ultra-high-energy neutrino experiments such as GRAND can test MeV–GeV mediators down to g~1e-3 (2512.00165). This unified framework opens new opportunities to probe neutrino properties and their connections to the dark sector across multiple energy scales.

Authors

Bei Zhou (Fermilab) Isaac Wang Pedro Machado (Fermilab) Xunjie Xu

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