Atmospheric Neutrino Status
Abstract
This conference proceeding discusses new results arising from atmospheric neutrino detection in the Super-Kamiokande and IceCube experiments. Super-Kamiokande has measured atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range of 100 MeV-10 TeV and uses this data set to conclusively measure the east-west effect to 8.0 (6.0) for electron (muon) neutrinos. IceCube is ideal for measuring high energy atmospheric neutrinos and has explored how different production channels for atmospheric neutrinos contribute to the total overall observed flux. The measurement is consistent with the conventional spectrum, produced by the decay of pions and kaon, while the contribution from the prompt channel (due to charm decay) is consistent with zero.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.00612,
title = {Atmospheric Neutrino Status},
author = {E. O'Sullivan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00612},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Talk presented at NuPhys2015 (London, 16-18 December 2015). 8 pages, PDFLaTeX, 5 PDF figures