Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II
The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be used to search for various phenomenological s...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.0902.0675 2023-05-15T18:22:29+02:00 Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II The IceCube Collaboration 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0902.0675 https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0675 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.79.102005 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE High Energy Physics - Experiment hep-ex FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0902.0675 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.79.102005 2022-04-01T15:02:10Z The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be used to search for various phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity in the neutrino sector, such as violation of Lorentz invariance (VLI) or quantum decoherence (QD). Analyzing a set of 5511 candidate neutrino events collected during 1387 days of livetime from 2000 to 2006, we find no evidence for such effects and set upper limits on VLI and QD parameters using a maximum likelihood method. Given the absence of evidence for new flavor-changing physics, we use the same methodology to determine the conventional atmospheric muon neutrino flux above 100 GeV. : 16 pages, 10 figures; updated with published version (minor clarifications) Text South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
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The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be used to search for various phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity in the neutrino sector, such as violation of Lorentz invariance (VLI) or quantum decoherence (QD). Analyzing a set of 5511 candidate neutrino events collected during 1387 days of livetime from 2000 to 2006, we find no evidence for such effects and set upper limits on VLI and QD parameters using a maximum likelihood method. Given the absence of evidence for new flavor-changing physics, we use the same methodology to determine the conventional atmospheric muon neutrino flux above 100 GeV. : 16 pages, 10 figures; updated with published version (minor clarifications) |
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Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II |
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Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II |
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Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II |
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Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II |
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Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II |
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determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with amanda-ii |
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