Neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth with KM3NeT-ORCA
International audience KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillation 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...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-01891007v1 2023-05-15T17:53:08+02:00 Neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth with KM3NeT-ORCA Bourret, Simon Coelho, Joao A.B. van Elewyck, Veronique AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.) KM3NeT Busan, South Korea 2017-07-12 https://hal.science/hal-01891007 https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.1020 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1702.03723 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.22323/1.301.1020 hal-01891007 https://hal.science/hal-01891007 ARXIV: 1702.03723 doi:10.22323/1.301.1020 INSPIRE: 1686956 PoS 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference https://hal.science/hal-01891007 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Jul 2017, Busan, South Korea. pp.1020, ⟨10.22323/1.301.1020⟩ neutrino: oscillation neutrino: detector neutrino: atmosphere neutrino: flux neutrino: mass neutrino: flavor detector: performance flavor: oscillation Cherenkov counter: water electron: density matter: effect numerical calculations: Monte Carlo geophysics crossing [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2017 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.1020 2023-03-08T06:01:42Z International audience KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillation 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.This contribution presents an updated study of the potential of ORCA for Earth tomography, based on a full Monte Carlo simulation of the detector reponse and including systematic effects related to oscillation parameters, neutrino flux, cross-sections and detector performance, as well as possible degeneracies in the density measurement of different layers. Results show that after ten years of operation the proposed ORCA detector can measure the electron density with a precision of 5 to 6\% in the mantle and 6 to 9\% in the outer core -- depending on the mass ordering. Conference Object Orca Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017) 1020 |
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neutrino: oscillation neutrino: detector neutrino: atmosphere neutrino: flux neutrino: mass neutrino: flavor detector: performance flavor: oscillation Cherenkov counter: water electron: density matter: effect numerical calculations: Monte Carlo geophysics crossing [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] |
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International audience KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillation 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.This contribution presents an updated study of the potential of ORCA for Earth tomography, based on a full Monte Carlo simulation of the detector reponse and including systematic effects related to oscillation parameters, neutrino flux, cross-sections and detector performance, as well as possible degeneracies in the density measurement of different layers. Results show that after ten years of operation the proposed ORCA detector can measure the electron density with a precision of 5 to 6\% in the mantle and 6 to 9\% in the outer core -- depending on the mass ordering. |
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AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.) KM3NeT |
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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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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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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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