KM3NeT - ORCA
International audience ORCA (Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the next generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary goal is to resolve the long-standing unsolved question of whether the neutrino mass order...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01774015v1 2023-05-15T17:53:11+02:00 KM3NeT - ORCA Brunner, Jürgen Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) KM3Net Venice, Italy 2017-03-13 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01774015 https://doi.org/10.22323/1.307.0057 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.22323/1.307.0057 hal-01774015 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01774015 doi:10.22323/1.307.0057 INSPIRE: 1666521 PoS 17th International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01774015 17th International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Mar 2017, Venice, Italy. pp.057, ⟨10.22323/1.307.0057⟩ cascade tracks sea neutrino muon neutrino electron optical Cherenkov KM3NeT matter: oscillation neutrino: detector neutrino: atmosphere neutrino: interaction neutrino: mass [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2017 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.22323/1.307.0057 2021-11-07T03:02:07Z International audience ORCA (Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the next generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary goal is to resolve the long-standing unsolved question of whether the neutrino mass ordering is normal or inverted by measuring matter oscillation effects with atmospheric neutrinos. The ORCA design foresees a dense configuration of KM3NeT detection units, optimised for studying the interactions of neutrinos in seawater at energies between few and 100~GeV. Multi-PMT optical modules will exploit the excellent optical properties of deep seawater to accurately reconstruct both cascade (mostly electron neutrinos) and track (mostly muon neutrinos) events. The potential of the ORCA detector both in neutrino mass ordering studies and in obtaining new constraints on other key parameters such as $\theta_{23}$ will be discussed. Conference Object Orca Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Proceedings of XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes — PoS(NEUTEL2017) 057 |
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International audience ORCA (Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the next generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary goal is to resolve the long-standing unsolved question of whether the neutrino mass ordering is normal or inverted by measuring matter oscillation effects with atmospheric neutrinos. The ORCA design foresees a dense configuration of KM3NeT detection units, optimised for studying the interactions of neutrinos in seawater at energies between few and 100~GeV. Multi-PMT optical modules will exploit the excellent optical properties of deep seawater to accurately reconstruct both cascade (mostly electron neutrinos) and track (mostly muon neutrinos) events. The potential of the ORCA detector both in neutrino mass ordering studies and in obtaining new constraints on other key parameters such as $\theta_{23}$ will be discussed. |
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Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) KM3Net |
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