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Atmospheric Results from Super-Kamiokande

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-12-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recent results from a 282 kiloton-year exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector to atmospheric neutrinos are presented. The data when fit both by themselves and in conjunction with constraints from the T2K and reactor neutrino experiments show a weak, though insignificant, preference for the normal mass hierarchy at the level of ~1 sigma. Searches for evidence of oscillations into a sterile neutrino have resulted in limits on the parameters governing their mixing, |U_mu4}|^2 <0.041 and |U_tau4|^2 < 0.18 at 90% C.L. A similar search for an indication of Lorentz-invariance violating oscillations has yielded limits three to seven orders of magnitude more stringent than existing measurements. Additionally, analyses searching for an excess of neutrinos in the atmospheric data produced from the annihilation of dark matter particles in the galaxy and sun have placed tight limits on the cross sections governing their annihilation and scattering.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5234,
  title  = {Atmospheric Results from Super-Kamiokande},
  author = {Roger Wendell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5234},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures, proceedings for talk presented at XXVI International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2014)