Atmospheric neutrinos with the first detection units of KM3NeT/ARCA

Abstract The KM3NeT collaboration is constructing two deep-sea Cherenkov detectors in the Mediterranean Sea. The ARCA detector aims at TeV-PeV neutrino astronomy, while the ORCA detector is optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillation studies at energies of a few GeV. In this contribution, an anal...

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Published in:Journal of Instrumentation
Main Authors: Sinopoulou, A., Coniglione, R., Muller, R., Tzamariudaki, E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: IOP Publishing 2021
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/11/c11015
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/16/11/C11015
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Summary:Abstract The KM3NeT collaboration is constructing two deep-sea Cherenkov detectors in the Mediterranean Sea. The ARCA detector aims at TeV-PeV neutrino astronomy, while the ORCA detector is optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillation studies at energies of a few GeV. In this contribution, an analysis of the data collected with the first deployed detection units of the ARCA detector is presented. A high-purity sample of atmospheric neutrinos is selected demonstrating the capability of the ARCA detector.