Particle Physics with ORCA

• Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Main Authors: Domi, Alba, Bourret, Simon, Quinn, Liam
• Other Authors: 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), 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), KM3NeT
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: talk: Dubna 2018/10/02; neutrino: oscillation; neutrino/tau: particle identification; neutrino: atmosphere; neutrino: detector; neutrino: sterile; neutrino: mass; dark matter; neutrino: supernova; KM3NeT; sensitivity; proposed experiment; [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]; [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Orca
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02144283; https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920704003

International audience KM3NeT is a Megaton-scale neutrino telescope currently under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. When completed, it will consist of two separate detectors: ARCA (Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss), optimised for high-energy neutrino astronomy, and ORCA (Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) for neutrino oscillation studies of atmospheric neutrinos. The main goal of ORCA is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering (NMO). Nevertheless it is possible to exploit ORCA’s configuration to make other important measurements, such as sterile neutrinos, non standard interactions, tau-neutrino appearance, neutrinos from Supernovae, Dark Matter and Earth Tomography studies. Part of these analyses are summarized here.