Neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth with KM3NeT-ORCA
KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter effects, modifying the pattern of their flavour oscillations...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1702.03723 2023-05-15T17:53:21+02:00 Neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth with KM3NeT-ORCA Bourret, Simon Coelho, João A. B. Van Elewyck, Véronique 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1702.03723 https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03723 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012114 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det High Energy Physics - Experiment hep-ex High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph Geophysics physics.geo-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1702.03723 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012114 2022-04-01T10:41:15Z KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter effects, modifying the pattern of their flavour oscillations. The study of the angular and energy distribution of neutrino events in ORCA can therefore provide tomographic information on the Earth's interior with an independent technique, complementary to the standard geophysics methods. Preliminary estimations based on a full Monte Carlo simulation of the detector response show that after ten years of operation the electron density can be measured with a precision of 3-5% in the mantle and 7-10% in the outer core - depending on the mass ordering. : Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016), to appear in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) Text Orca DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter effects, modifying the pattern of their flavour oscillations. The study of the angular and energy distribution of neutrino events in ORCA can therefore provide tomographic information on the Earth's interior with an independent technique, complementary to the standard geophysics methods. Preliminary estimations based on a full Monte Carlo simulation of the detector response show that after ten years of operation the electron density can be measured with a precision of 3-5% in the mantle and 7-10% in the outer core - depending on the mass ordering. : Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016), to appear in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) |
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Neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth with KM3NeT-ORCA |
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Neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth with KM3NeT-ORCA |
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