Neutrino mass hierarchy extraction using atmospheric neutrinos in ice

2008/03/31 by Olga Mena, Irina Mocioiu, S. Razzaque +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino Physics Research #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.78.093003

published as Phys.Rev.D78:093003,2008 · Phys.Rev.D accepted version. Minor changes and 1 new figure (11 pages, 8 figures)

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Abstract

We show that the measurements of 10 GeV atmospheric neutrinos by an upcoming array of densely-packed phototubes buried deep inside the IceCube detector at the South Pole can be used to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy for values of sin²2\ensuremathθ₁₃ close to the present bound, if the hierarchy is normal. These results are obtained for an exposure of 100 Mton years and systematic uncertainties up to 10%.

Citations

• Mass hierarchy determination via future atmospheric neutrino detectors
• Measuring atmospheric neutrino oscillations with neutrino telescopes
• Preliminary reference Earth model
• Review of Particle Physics

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• IceCube Science