https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09279-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Estimating the impact of the QCD dynamics on the determination of the high energy astrophysical neutrino flux
1
Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Caixa Postal 354, CEP 96010-090, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
2
Escola de Engenharia Industrial Metalúrgica de Volta Redonda, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), CEP 27255-125, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil
Received:
26
November
2020
Accepted:
20
May
2021
Published online:
4
June
2021
The number of ultra-high energy neutrinos arriving at IceCube depends on the energy dependence of the astrophysical neutrino flux and neutrino cross-section. In this paper, we investigate the impact of different assumptions for the description of the QCD dynamics at high energies on the determination of the normalization 
and spectral index 
of the astrophysical neutrino flux. The distribution of neutrino events at the IceCube is estimated considering the DGLAP, BFKL, CGC and BBMT approaches and the best estimates for and are determined using a maximum likelihood fit comparing the predictions with the distribution of observed events at IceCube. Moreover, we also investigate if the increase in the effective exposure time expected in IceCube-Gen2 will to allow us to disentangle the QCD dynamical effects from the description of the astrophysical neutrino flux.
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