Physics Potential of Future Atmospheric Neutrino Searches
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-04-17 v1
Abstract
The potential of future high statistics atmospheric neutrino experiments is considered, having in mind currently discussed huge detectors of various technologies (water Cerekov, magnetized iron, liquid Argon). I focus on the possibility to use atmospheric data to determine the octant of and the neutrino mass hierarchy. The sensitivity to the -octant of atmospheric neutrinos is competitive (or even superior) to long-baseline experiments. I discuss the ideal properties of a fictitious atmospheric neutrino detector to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.2392,
title = {Physics Potential of Future Atmospheric Neutrino Searches},
author = {Thomas Schwetz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2392},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures, Plenary talk at NOW2008, Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Italy, September 6-13, 2008