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We have explored the question of whether the renormalization group running of the neutrino mixing parameters in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is detectable with ultra-high energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei (AGN). We use as observables the ratios of neutrino fluxes produced at the AGN, focusing on four different neutrino production models: \( \left( {\Phi_{{\nu_e} + {{\bar{\nu }}_e}}^0:\Phi_{{\nu_\mu } + {{\bar{\nu }}_\mu }}^0:\Phi_{{\nu_\tau } + {{\bar{\nu }}_\tau }}^0} \right) = \left( {1:2:0} \right),\left( {0:1:0} \right),\left( {1:0:0} \right) \), and (1 : 1 : 0). The prospects for observing deviations experimentally are taken into consideration, and we find out that it is necessary to impose a cut-off on the transferred momentum of Q 2 ≥ 107 GeV2. However, this condition, together with the expected low value of the diffuse AGN neutrino flux, yields a negligible event rate at a km-scale C̆erenkov detector such as IceCube.
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Bustamante, M., Gago, A.M. & Pérez, J.J. SUSY renormalization group effects in ultra high energy neutrinos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 133 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2011)133
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