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Study of neutrino oscillation parameters at the INO-ICAL detector using event-by-event reconstruction

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-04-09 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We present the reach of the proposed INO-ICAL in measuring the atmospheric-neutrino-oscillation parameters θ23\theta_{23} and Δm322\Delta m^2_{32} using full event-by-event reconstruction for the first time. We also study the fluctuations in the data and their effect on the precision measurements and mass-hierarchy analysis for a five-year exposure of the 50 kton ICAL detector. We find a mean resolution of Δχ22.9\Delta\chi^2 \approx 2.9, which rules out the wrong mass hierarchy of the neutrinos with a significance of approximately 1.7σ1.7\sigma. These results are similar to those to presented earlier studies that approximated the performance of the ICAL detector.

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@article{arxiv.1804.02138,
  title  = {Study of neutrino oscillation parameters at the INO-ICAL detector using event-by-event reconstruction},
  author = {Karaparambil Rajan Rebin and Jim Libby and D. Indumathi and Lakshmi S. Mohan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02138},
  year   = {2019}
}