Future Atmospheric Neutrino Detectors
arXiv:hep-ex/0009060 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(00)00935-X
Abstract
Future experiments focusing on atmospheric neutrino detection are reviewed. One of the main goals of these experiments is the detection of an unambiguous oscillation pattern (nu_mu reappearance) to prove the oscillation hypothesis. Further goals include the discrimination of nu_mu - nu_tau and nu_mu - nu_sterile oscillations, and the detection of a potential small nu_mu - nu_e contribution. The search for matter effects in three or more flavour oscillations can be used to constrain hybrid oscillation models and potentially measure the sign of delta m^2. The detectors and measurement techniques proposed to achieve these goals are described, and their physics reach is discussed.
9 pages, invited talk at the XIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Sudbury, Canada, June 16-21, 2000, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
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