# Constraining the Mass Scale of a Lorentz-Violating Hamiltonian with the Measurement of Astrophysical Neutrino-Flavor Composition

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how Lorentz violation could affect high-energy astrophysical neutrino flavor transitions and demonstrates that future IceCube-Gen2 measurements could significantly tighten constraints on Lorentz-violating parameters.

## Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of Lorentz violation effects on astrophysical neutrino flavor composition and forecasts the improved constraints achievable with IceCube-Gen2.

## Key findings

- Lorentz violation can significantly alter neutrino flavor ratios.
- IceCube-Gen2 will improve constraints on Lorentz-violating operators by over two orders of magnitude.
- Current IceCube data already constrains some Lorentz-violating parameters.

## Abstract

We study Lorentz violation effects on flavor transitions of high energy astrophysical neutrinos. It is shown that the appearance of Lorentz violating Hamiltonian can drastically change the flavor transition probabilities of astrophysical neutrinos. Predictions of Lorentz violation effects on flavor compositions of astrophysical neutrinos arriving on Earth are compared with IceCube flavor composition measurement which analyzes astrophysical neutrino events in the energy range between $25~{\rm TeV}$ and $2.8~{\rm PeV}$. Such a comparison indicates that the future IceCube-Gen2 will be able to place stringent constraints on Lorentz violating Hamiltonian in the neutrino sector. We work out the expected sensitivities by IceCube-Gen2 on dimension-$3$ CPT-odd and dimension-$4$ CPT-even operators in Lorentz violating Hamiltonian. The expected sensitivities can improve on the current constraints obtained from other types of experiments by more than two orders of magnitudes for certain range of the parameter space.