Atmospheric Tau Neutrinos in a Multi-kiloton Liquid Argon Detector
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-12-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
An ultra-large Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber-based neutrino detector will have the uncommon ability to detect atmospheric tau neutrino events. This paper discusses the most promising modes for identifying charged current tau neutrino interactions, and shows that, with simple kinematic cuts, ~30 tau neutrinos can be isolated in a 100 kt*yr exposure, with greater than 4 sigma significance. This sample is sufficient to perform flux-averaged total cross-section and cross-section shape parameterization measurements -- the first steps toward using tau neutrinos to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.
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@article{arxiv.1008.2984,
title = {Atmospheric Tau Neutrinos in a Multi-kiloton Liquid Argon Detector},
author = {Janet Conrad and Andre de Gouvea and Shashank Shalgar and Joshua Spitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2984},
year = {2010}
}
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14 pages, 11 figures