Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (United States)
- Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, IFIC, CSIC and Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
The main goal of the IceCube Deep Core Array is to search for neutrinos of astrophysical origins. Atmospheric neutrinos are commonly considered as a background for these searches. We show here that cascade measurements in the Ice Cube Deep Core Array can provide strong evidence for tau neutrino appearance in atmospheric neutrino oscillations. Controlling systematic uncertainties will be the limiting factor in the analysis. A careful study of these tau neutrinos is crucial, since they constitute an irreducible background for astrophysical neutrino detection.
- OSTI ID:
- 21413206
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.113008; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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