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arxiv: 2605.29105 · v1 · pith:2CODCII2new · submitted 2026-05-27 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.HE· hep-ex

Visible inelasticity as a probe of tau flavor content of astrophysical neutrinos

Alex Y. Wen , Carlos A. Arg\"uelles , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz This is my paper

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Visible inelasticity of starting tracks in neutrino telescopes statistically separates tau neutrinos from muon neutrinos.

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The paper investigates visible inelasticity in starting track events as a way to measure the tau component of astrophysical neutrino fluxes. It shows that muonic decays of tau leptons create tracks with higher visible inelasticity than muon neutrino charged-current interactions. Realistic IceCube simulations indicate this difference already allows competitive constraints on the tau-to-muon flux ratio using data in hand. The approach complements double-cascade searches and opens routes to source-specific flavor measurements.

Core claim

Muonic decays of tau leptons produce tracks with systematically larger visible inelasticity than those from muon neutrino charged-current interactions, potentially enabling statistical separation of the two flavors; using realistic IceCube exposures and detector performance, this observable already yields competitive sensitivity to the tau-to-muon flux ratio R_τμ achievable with existing data.

What carries the argument

The systematic difference in visible inelasticity between muonic tau lepton decays and direct muon neutrino interactions in starting track events.

If this is right

  • Competitive sensitivity to R_τμ already reachable with current IceCube exposures and performance.
  • Flavor composition measurements become possible for individual astrophysical neutrino sources.
  • Tau-enhanced source catalogs can be selected using the inelasticity observable.
  • The method provides a probe of potential physics beyond standard neutrino mixing via flavor ratios.
  • It serves as an immediately accessible complement to rare double-cascade signatures.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Reanalysis of archival IceCube starting-track samples could yield an early tau-flavor constraint without new data taking.
  • The inelasticity separation might be combined with other observables to tighten overall flavor ratio bounds.
  • If the separation persists, similar techniques could be tested at next-generation neutrino telescopes with improved track reconstruction.
  • Source-by-source application could reveal whether any known neutrino emitters show anomalous tau content.

Load-bearing premise

Detector response simulations accurately capture the difference in visible inelasticity between tau muonic decays and muon neutrino interactions without significant bias.

What would settle it

IceCube data or updated simulations showing no measurable difference in the visible inelasticity distributions for the two event classes after accounting for backgrounds and systematics.

Figures

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read the original abstract

Astrophysical neutrinos provide a unique probe of neutrino flavor changes over cosmological baselines. While the tau component of the neutrino flux is expected to arise almost entirely from mixing, current measurements rely primarily on rare double-cascade signatures. We investigate a complementary method to measure the tau fraction using the visible inelasticity of starting track events in neutrino telescopes. Muonic decays of tau leptons produce tracks with systematically larger visible inelasticity than those from muon neutrino interactions, potentially enabling statistical separation of the two flavors. Using realistic IceCube exposures and detector performance, we show that this observable already yields competitive sensitivity to the tau-to-muon flux ratio, $R_{\tau\mu}$, achievable with existing data. This approach may further enable flavor measurements of individual sources and the selection of tau-enhanced source catalogs. Starting-track inelasticity thus provides a powerful and immediately accessible probe of astrophysical neutrino flavor and of potential physics beyond standard neutrino mixing.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes using the visible inelasticity distribution of starting-track events in IceCube to statistically separate the tau-neutrino component from the muon-neutrino component of the astrophysical flux. It argues that muonic tau decays produce tracks with systematically higher visible inelasticity than direct u_ u CC interactions, and claims that realistic IceCube exposures already yield competitive sensitivity to the flux ratio R_ au u.

Significance. If the simulated inelasticity separation is shown to be robust against detector-response systematics, the method would provide a complementary, high-statistics handle on astrophysical neutrino flavor that does not rely on the rare double-cascade topology. This could enable source-by-source flavor measurements and tests of standard mixing over cosmological baselines.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3: The central claim that muonic tau-decay tracks exhibit systematically larger visible inelasticity than u_ u CC tracks rests entirely on Monte Carlo distributions; the manuscript provides no data-driven validation or quantitative estimate of bias from hadronic-shower modeling, muon energy-loss parametrization, or starting-track selection cuts.
  2. [§4] §4: The assertion of “competitive sensitivity … achievable with existing data” is presented without tabulated statistical power, systematic-error budget, or the precise exposure and effective-area values used in the calculation, so the reader cannot assess whether modest degradation of the separation power would render the result marginal rather than competitive.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the quantitative claim of competitive sensitivity is stated without any numerical result or uncertainty; a single sentence summarizing the expected precision on R_ au u would improve clarity.
  2. Notation: the symbol R_ au u is introduced without an explicit definition in terms of the individual flavor fluxes; adding the definition near first use would aid readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful review and positive evaluation of the significance of our proposed method. We respond to the major comments point by point below.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [§3] §3: The central claim that muonic tau-decay tracks exhibit systematically larger visible inelasticity than ν_μ CC tracks rests entirely on Monte Carlo distributions; the manuscript provides no data-driven validation or quantitative estimate of bias from hadronic-shower modeling, muon energy-loss parametrization, or starting-track selection cuts.

    Authors: We agree that the analysis is simulation-based, as is common for such proposed methods given the current statistics. The separation arises from well-understood kinematics: in ν_τ CC interactions followed by muonic τ decay, the visible track energy includes the hadronic shower plus a muon from the decay, leading to higher inelasticity y_vis compared to ν_μ CC where the muon carries most of the energy. To address the concern, we will revise the manuscript to include quantitative estimates of systematic biases. Specifically, we will vary hadronic shower models (e.g., using different generators) and muon energy loss parameters within their uncertainties and report the impact on the separation significance. While a full data-driven validation is limited by the small number of astrophysical starting-track events, we will compare the MC to atmospheric neutrino data in the relevant energy range to validate the modeling. This will be added in a new subsection in §3. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§4] §4: The assertion of “competitive sensitivity … achievable with existing data” is presented without tabulated statistical power, systematic-error budget, or the precise exposure and effective-area values used in the calculation, so the reader cannot assess whether modest degradation of the separation power would render the result marginal rather than competitive.

    Authors: We acknowledge that additional details would improve clarity. In the revised version, we will add a dedicated table summarizing the statistical power (e.g., expected significance for R_τμ =1), the systematic error budget (including contributions from flux normalization, detector systematics, and modeling uncertainties), and the precise exposure assumptions (e.g., livetime, effective area as function of energy). This will allow readers to evaluate the competitiveness under various scenarios. The calculations are based on 10 years of IceCube data with standard effective areas for starting tracks. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; sensitivity estimate uses independent Monte Carlo modeling of interaction physics

full rationale

The paper derives its sensitivity claim from Monte Carlo simulations of visible inelasticity distributions for tau muonic decays versus nu_mu CC interactions, using standard IceCube detector response modeling. This is an external input based on known particle physics and detector simulation, not a fit to the target R_tau_mu or a self-referential definition. No equations reduce the claimed separation power to a fitted parameter by construction, and no load-bearing self-citations or ansatze are present in the abstract or described sections. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach rests on standard neutrino oscillation physics, tau decay branching ratios, and IceCube detector response modeling; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • standard math Standard three-flavor neutrino mixing and tau lepton decay properties hold over astrophysical baselines
    Invoked to expect a non-zero tau component and to model the muonic decay channel.
  • domain assumption IceCube detector response simulations accurately reproduce visible inelasticity distributions for track events
    Required for the claim that the observable yields competitive sensitivity with existing data.

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