Extremely energetic cosmic neutrinos and their impact on particle physics and cosmology.pdfVIP

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 4 0 9 1 5 1 v 1 1 4 S e p 2 0 0 4 DESY 04-180 Extremely energetic cosmic neutrinos and their impact on particle physics and cosmology A. Ringwalda? aDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestra?e 85, D–22607 Hamburg, Germany Existing and planned neutrino detectors, sensitive in the energy regime from 1017 eV to 1023 eV, offer oppor- tunities for particle physics and cosmology. In this contribution, we discuss particularly the possibilities to infer information about physics beyond the Standard Model at center-of-mass energies beyond the reach of the Large H