Tau Neutrino Appearance with 8 years of IceCube Neutrino Data
Of all three known flavors of neutrinos, the tau neutrino is undeniably the most difficult to identify experimentally. Because of this, the values of neutrino oscillation parameters related to the third generation of neutrinos remain poorly constrained, especially when unitarity assumptions are aban...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.4123663 2023-05-15T16:40:49+02:00 Tau Neutrino Appearance with 8 years of IceCube Neutrino Data Étienne Bourbeau 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4123663 https://zenodo.org/record/4123663 unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/neutrino2020-posters https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4123664 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4253946 https://zenodo.org/communities/neutrino2020-posters Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Text Poster article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4123663 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4123664 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4253946 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Of all three known flavors of neutrinos, the tau neutrino is undeniably the most difficult to identify experimentally. Because of this, the values of neutrino oscillation parameters related to the third generation of neutrinos remain poorly constrained, especially when unitarity assumptions are abandoned. One way to improve these constraints consists of measuring the appearance of tau neutrinos as a statistical excess of events in a large neutrino dataset. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a gigaton neutrino detector buried 2000 m under the ice sheet at the South Pole. Its inner section, called DeepCore, constitutes a ~megaton fiducial volume of more densely instrumented ice, making it sensitive to the atmospheric neutrino flux down to energies of ~5 GeV, where muon neutrinos are known to oscillate into tau neutrinos. I present an analysis aimed at measuring the atmospheric tau neutrino appearance in IceCube-DeepCore, using 8 years of detector data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNomjEI0Ss Still Image Ice Sheet South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
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Of all three known flavors of neutrinos, the tau neutrino is undeniably the most difficult to identify experimentally. Because of this, the values of neutrino oscillation parameters related to the third generation of neutrinos remain poorly constrained, especially when unitarity assumptions are abandoned. One way to improve these constraints consists of measuring the appearance of tau neutrinos as a statistical excess of events in a large neutrino dataset. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a gigaton neutrino detector buried 2000 m under the ice sheet at the South Pole. Its inner section, called DeepCore, constitutes a ~megaton fiducial volume of more densely instrumented ice, making it sensitive to the atmospheric neutrino flux down to energies of ~5 GeV, where muon neutrinos are known to oscillate into tau neutrinos. I present an analysis aimed at measuring the atmospheric tau neutrino appearance in IceCube-DeepCore, using 8 years of detector data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNomjEI0Ss |
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