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Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in IceCube

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-13 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present the results of an analysis of data collected by IceCube/DeepCore in 2010-2011 resulting in the first significant detection of neutrino oscillations in a high-energy neutrino telescope. A low-energy muon neutrino sample (20-100 GeV) containing the oscillation signal was extracted from data collected by DeepCore. A high-energy muon neutrino sample (100 GeV -10 TeV) was extracted from IceCube data in order to constrain the systematic uncertainties. The non-oscillation hypothesis was rejected with more than 5σ5\sigma. We fitted the oscillation parameters Δm232\Delta m^2_{23} and sin22θ23\sin^22 \theta_{23} to these data samples. In a 2-flavor formalism we find Δm232=(2.5±0.6)103\Delta m^2_{23}= (2.5\pm0.6)\cdot10^{-3} eV2^2 and sin22θ23>0.92\sin^22 \theta_{23}>0.92 while maximum mixing is favored. These results are in good agreement with the world average values.

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@article{arxiv.1301.4339,
  title  = {Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in IceCube},
  author = {Andreas Groß},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4339},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

3 pages, 4 figures, contribution to NOW 2012, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)

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