Tau Neutrino Appearance With Km3Net / Orca
ORCA is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the next-generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector currently being built in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is optimised to study oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos in the few-GeV energy range in order to determine the neutrino mass ordering. W...
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Zenodo
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1292822 https://zenodo.org/record/1292822 |
| Summary: | ORCA is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the next-generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector currently being built in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is optimised to study oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos in the few-GeV energy range in order to determine the neutrino mass ordering. Within its instrumented volume of more than 7 Mm 3 of sea water an unprecedented statistics of >3k ν τ neutrinos per year will be detected that have oscillated from a purely ν μ and ν e initial flux into the ν τ -channel along their passage through Earth. The ν τ -flux will be determined as a statistical excess of shower-like events. The contribution will present the event classification strategies developed in ORCA and the sensitivity of ORCA to ν τ- appearance. ORCA will confirm the exclusion of non-appearance within the first months of operation. |
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