Atmospheric neutrinos in ice and measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters

Abstract

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 that the very high statistics atmospheric neutrino data can be used to obtain precise measurements of the main oscillation parameters.

arXiv commentexpanded discussion of systematic uncertainties, 8 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (32)

• A Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters by Super-Kamiokande I
• Phenomenology with Massive Neutrinos
• Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Interactions
• Neutrino Interactions at Ultrahigh Energies
• Calculation of atmospheric neutrino flux using the interaction model calibrated with atmospheric muon data
• Getting the most from the statistical analysis of solar neutrino oscillations
• Superbeams versus Neutrino Factories
• Atmospheric neutrino flux above 1 GeV
• A three-dimensional calculation of atmospheric neutrinos
• Updated global fit to three neutrino mixing: status of the hints of theta13 > 0
• Tests of three-flavor mixing in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments
• A New calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux in a 3-dimensional scheme
• Uncertainties in Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes
• Status of Oscillation plus Decay of Atmospheric and Long-Baseline Neutrinos
• Physics potential of the CERN-MEMPHYS neutrino oscillation project
• Physics Reach of High-Energy and High-Statistics IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
• Superbeams plus Neutrino Factory: the golden path to leptonic CP violation
• Resolving parameter degeneracies in long-baseline experiments by atmospheric neutrino data
• Quantization of Fermionic Fields with Two Mass States in the First Order Formalism
• Probing the deviation from maximal mixing of atmospheric neutrinos
• Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS
• A low energy neutrino factory for large ${\theta }_{13}$
• Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Neutrino mass hierarchy extraction using atmospheric neutrinos in ice
• Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes from Atmospheric Neutrino Data
• Determination of theta_{23} in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments with Three-Flavor Mixing Effects
• ${\nu }_{\mu }$ disappearance at the SPL, T2K-I, NO$\nu$A and the Neutrino Factory
• NOvA and T2K: The race for the neutrino mass hierarchy
• Unveiling Neutrino Mixing and Leptonic CP Violation
• An intermediate gamma beta-beam neutrino experiment with long baseline
• Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice
• Measuring Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Neutrino Telescopes

Cited by in corpus (14)

• Determining neutrino oscillation parameters from atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of IceCube DeepCore data
• High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics: Status and Perspectives
• Improving the neutrino mass hierarchy identification with inelasticity measurement in PINGU and ORCA
• Determination of the neutrino mass ordering by combining PINGU and Daya Bay II
• Sub-GeV Atmospheric Neutrinos and CP-Violation in DUNE
• Searches for sterile neutrinos with IceCube DeepCore
• Long-Range Lepton Flavor Interactions and Neutrino Oscillations
• Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions in the mu-tau sector
• On the Bayesian approach to neutrino mass ordering
• PINGU and the neutrino mass hierarchy: Statistical and systematic aspects
• Exploring the Earth matter effect with atmospheric neutrinos in ice
• Open issues in neutrino astrophysics
• First study of neutrino angle reconstruction using quasielastic-like interactions in MicroBooNE
• An infrared origin of leptonic mixing and its test at DeepCore