Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube
Abstract
We present the first statistically significant detection of neutrino oscillations in the high-energy regime ( 20 GeV) from an analysis of IceCube Neutrino Observatory data collected in 2010-2011. This measurement is made possible by the low energy threshold of the DeepCore detector ( GeV) and benefits from the use of the IceCube detector as a veto against cosmic ray-induced muon background. The oscillation signal was detected within a low-energy muon neutrino sample (20 -- 100 GeV) extracted from data collected by DeepCore. A high-energy muon neutrino sample (100 GeV -- 10 TeV) was extracted from IceCube data to constrain systematic uncertainties. Disappearance of low-energy upward-going muon neutrinos was observed, and the non-oscillation hypothesis is rejected with more than significance. In a two-neutrino flavor formalism, our data are best described by the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters eV and , and maximum mixing is favored.
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@article{arxiv.1305.3909,
title = {Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube},
author = {The IceCube Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3909},
year = {2013}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL