Status and Perspectives of KM3NeT/ORCA
International audience The KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing neutrino detectors at depths of 2475 m and 3400 m in the Mediterranean Sea, on scales up to a gigaton. These detectors, named ARCA and ORCA are each made up of a three-dimensional array of spherical optical modules. Each of them contain...
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fthalin2p3:oai:HAL:hal-02058387v1 2024-05-12T08:09:30+00:00 Status and Perspectives of KM3NeT/ORCA Quinn, Liam Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) KM3NeT Venice, Italy 2017-07-05 https://hal.science/hal-02058387 https://doi.org/10.22323/1.314.0130 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.22323/1.314.0130 hal-02058387 https://hal.science/hal-02058387 doi:10.22323/1.314.0130 INSPIRE: 1664204 PoS 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics https://hal.science/hal-02058387 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, Jul 2017, Venice, Italy. pp.130, ⟨10.22323/1.314.0130⟩ activity report neutrino: oscillation neutrino: interaction neutrino: detector KM3NeT photomultiplier mixing angle Cherenkov counter: water [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2017 fthalin2p3 https://doi.org/10.22323/1.314.0130 2024-04-17T15:46:54Z International audience The KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing neutrino detectors at depths of 2475 m and 3400 m in the Mediterranean Sea, on scales up to a gigaton. These detectors, named ARCA and ORCA are each made up of a three-dimensional array of spherical optical modules. Each of them contains 31 3" photomultiplier tubes, designed to detect Cherenkov light emitted by charged leptons produced by neutrino interactions in and around the instrumented volume. These are packed either sparsely (ARCA) or densely (ORCA), depending on the target energy. ORCA, which is under construction off the coast of Toulon in France, will study atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the 1-100 GeV range. This will address multiple outstanding issues in neutrino oscillation research, including the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. Physics studies indicate that this can be determined with a significance of 3-7 sigma (depending on the true value of the hierarchy and the value of the mixing angle θ23) after three years of operation. Conference Object Orca HAL-IN2P3 (Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules) Proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP2017) 130 |
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International audience The KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing neutrino detectors at depths of 2475 m and 3400 m in the Mediterranean Sea, on scales up to a gigaton. These detectors, named ARCA and ORCA are each made up of a three-dimensional array of spherical optical modules. Each of them contains 31 3" photomultiplier tubes, designed to detect Cherenkov light emitted by charged leptons produced by neutrino interactions in and around the instrumented volume. These are packed either sparsely (ARCA) or densely (ORCA), depending on the target energy. ORCA, which is under construction off the coast of Toulon in France, will study atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the 1-100 GeV range. This will address multiple outstanding issues in neutrino oscillation research, including the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. Physics studies indicate that this can be determined with a significance of 3-7 sigma (depending on the true value of the hierarchy and the value of the mixing angle θ23) after three years of operation. |
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Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) KM3NeT |
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