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A comparison of the sensitivities of the parameters with atmospheric neutrinos for different analysis methods

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In the atmospheric neutrino experiments the primary problems are the huge uncertainties of flux, very rapid fall of flux with increase of energy, the energy dependent wide resolutions of energy and zenith angle between true neutrinos and reconstructed neutrinos. These all in together make the choice of binning of the data for chi-square analysis complicated. The large iron calorimeter has the ability to measure the energy and the direction of the muon with high resolution. From the bending of the track in the magnetic field it can also distinguish its charge. We have analyzed the atmospheric neutrino oscillation generating events by Nuance and then considering the muons produced in the charge current interactions as the reconstructed neutrinos. This practically takes into account the major problem of wide resolutions. We have binned the data in three ways: i) in the grids of logElogL\log E -\log L plane, ii) in the grids of logEcosθzenith\log E -\cos\theta_{\rm zenith} plane, and iii) in the bins of log(L/E)\log (L/E). We have performed a marginalized χ2\chi^2 study over Δm322, θ13\Delta m_{32}^2, ~\theta_{13} and θ23\theta_{23} for neutrinos and anti-neutrinos separately for each method and finally compared the results.

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@article{arxiv.0812.4640,
  title  = {A comparison of the sensitivities of the parameters with atmospheric neutrinos for different analysis methods},
  author = {Abhijit Samanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4640},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, 9 figures, some clarifications added, typos corrected, version to be published in Phys. Rev. D