Earth tomography with neutrinos in KM3NeT-ORCA

International audience The study of atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth can provide tomographic information on the Earth’s interior, complementary to the standard geophysics methods. This contribution presents an updated study of the potential of the KM3NeT-ORCA detector for neutrino oscillatio...

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Published in:EPJ Web of Conferences
Main Authors: Bourret, Simon, van Elewyck, Véronique
Other Authors: 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
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2018
Subjects:
neutrino: mass: hierarchy
neutrino: oscillation
neutrino: atmosphere
electron: density
geophysics
crossing
KM3NeT
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Orca
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-02144282
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920704008
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Summary:International audience The study of atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth can provide tomographic information on the Earth’s interior, complementary to the standard geophysics methods. This contribution presents an updated study of the potential of the KM3NeT-ORCA detector for neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth, showing that after ten years of operation it can measure the electron density in both the lower mantle and the outer core with a precision of a few percents in the case of normal neutrino mass hierarchy.

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