Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube

Abstract

We present the first statistically significant detection of neutrino oscillations in the high-energy regime ($>$ 20 GeV) from an analysis of IceCube Neutrino Observatory data collected in 2010-2011. This measurement is made possible by the low energy threshold of the DeepCore detector ($\sim 20$ GeV) and benefits from the use of the IceCube detector as a veto against cosmic ray-induced muon background. The oscillation signal was detected within a low-energy muon neutrino sample (20 -- 100 GeV) extracted from data collected by DeepCore. A high-energy muon neutrino sample (100 GeV -- 10 TeV) was extracted from IceCube data to constrain systematic uncertainties. Disappearance of low-energy upward-going muon neutrinos was observed, and the non-oscillation hypothesis is rejected with more than $5\sigma$ significance. In a two-neutrino flavor formalism, our data are best described by the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m_{23}^2=(2.3_{-0.5}^{+0.6})\cdot 10^{-3}$ eV${}^2$ and ${\sin }^2(2{\theta }_{23})>0.93$, and maximum mixing is favored.

6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL

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