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High energy astrophysical neutrinos interacting with ultralight dark matter (DM) can undergo flavour oscillations that induce an energy dependence in the flavour ratios. Such a dependence on the neutrino energy will reflect in the track to shower ratio in neutrino telescopes like IceCube or KM3NeT. This opens up a possibility to study DM density profiles of astrophysical objects like AGN, GRB etc., which are the suspected sources of such neutrinos.
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Karmakar, S., Pandey, S. & Rakshit, S. Astronomy with energy dependent flavour ratios of extragalactic neutrinos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)004
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