First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition
36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 24 Jul 2019 - 1 Aug 2019; PoS 1015 (2019). : The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions, firmly established the existence of an astrophys...
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ftdatacite:10.3204/pubdb-2020-00359 2023-05-15T18:22:44+02:00 First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition Stachurska, Juliana 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.3204/pubdb-2020-00359 http://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/434816 en eng Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg neutrino flavor neutrino interaction pi decay radiation Cherenkov IceCube new physics cascade charged particle observatory topology tracks neutrino muon pole Text Report report ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.3204/pubdb-2020-00359 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 24 Jul 2019 - 1 Aug 2019; PoS 1015 (2019). : The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions, firmly established the existence of an astrophysical high-energy neutrino component. The expected neutrino flavor composition on Earth is $\nu_e:\nu_{\mu}:\nu_{\tau}$ of about 1:1:1 for neutrinos produced in astrophysical sources through pion decay. A measurement of the flavor composition on Earth can provide important constraints on sources and production mechanisms within the standard model, and can also constrain various beyond-standard-model processes. Here the measurement of the flavor composition performed on IceCube's High-Energy Starting Events sample with a livetime of about 7.5 years is presented. IceCube is directly sensitive to each neutrino flavor via the single cascade, track and double cascade event topologies. In IceCube, $\nu_{\tau}$-CC interactions above $\sim$ 100 TeV can produce resolvable double cascades, breaking the degeneracy between $\nu_e$ and $\nu_{\tau}$ present at lower energies. IceCube's first two identified double cascades are presented and the properties of the two $\nu_{\tau}$ candidates are discussed. Report South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
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36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 24 Jul 2019 - 1 Aug 2019; PoS 1015 (2019). : The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions, firmly established the existence of an astrophysical high-energy neutrino component. The expected neutrino flavor composition on Earth is $\nu_e:\nu_{\mu}:\nu_{\tau}$ of about 1:1:1 for neutrinos produced in astrophysical sources through pion decay. A measurement of the flavor composition on Earth can provide important constraints on sources and production mechanisms within the standard model, and can also constrain various beyond-standard-model processes. Here the measurement of the flavor composition performed on IceCube's High-Energy Starting Events sample with a livetime of about 7.5 years is presented. IceCube is directly sensitive to each neutrino flavor via the single cascade, track and double cascade event topologies. In IceCube, $\nu_{\tau}$-CC interactions above $\sim$ 100 TeV can produce resolvable double cascades, breaking the degeneracy between $\nu_e$ and $\nu_{\tau}$ present at lower energies. IceCube's first two identified double cascades are presented and the properties of the two $\nu_{\tau}$ candidates are discussed. |
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First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition |
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First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition |
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First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition |
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First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition |
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First Double Cascade Tau Neutrino Candidates in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Flavor Composition |
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first double cascade tau neutrino candidates in icecube and a new measurement of the flavor composition |
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