Determining neutrino oscillation parameters from atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of IceCube DeepCore data

被引:109
作者
Aartsen, M. G. [2 ]
Ackermann, M. [52 ]
Adams, J. [16 ]
Aguilar, J. A. [25 ]
Ahlers, M. [30 ,31 ]
Ahrens, M. [42 ,43 ]
Altmann, D. [24 ]
Anderson, T. [49 ]
Arguelles, C. [30 ,31 ]
Arlen, T. C. [49 ]
Auffenberg, J. [1 ]
Bai, X. [40 ]
Barwick, S. W. [27 ]
Baum, V. [32 ]
Bay, R. [8 ]
Beatty, J. J. [18 ,19 ,20 ]
Tjus, J. Becker [11 ]
Becker, K. -H. [51 ]
BenZvi, S. [30 ,31 ]
Berghaus, P. [52 ]
Berley, D. [17 ]
Bernardini, E. [52 ]
Bernhard, A. [35 ]
Besson, D. Z. [28 ]
Binder, G. [8 ,9 ]
Bindig, D. [51 ]
Bissok, M. [1 ]
Blaufuss, E. [17 ]
Blumenthal, J. [1 ]
Boersma, D. J. [50 ]
Bohm, C. [42 ,43 ]
Bos, F. [11 ]
Bose, D. [45 ]
Boeser, S. [12 ]
Botner, O. [50 ]
Brayeur, L. [14 ]
Bretz, H. -P. [52 ]
Brown, A. M. [16 ]
Brunner, J. [52 ]
Buzinsky, N. [23 ]
Casey, J. [5 ,6 ]
Casier, M. [14 ]
Cheung, E. [17 ]
Chirkin, D. [30 ,31 ]
Christov, A. [25 ]
Christy, B. [17 ]
Clark, K. [46 ]
Classen, L. [24 ]
Clevermann, F. [22 ]
Coenders, S. [35 ]
机构
[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[2] Univ Adelaide, Sch Chem & Phys, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[3] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA
[4] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA
[5] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[6] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[7] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[9] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[10] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[11] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[12] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[13] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Fac Sci, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[14] Dienst ELEM, Vrije Univ Brussel, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[15] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[16] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch, New Zealand
[17] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[18] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[19] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astro Particle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[20] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[21] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[22] Tech Univ Dortmund, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[23] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
[24] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[25] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[26] Univ Ghent, Dept Phys & Astron, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[27] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[28] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[29] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[30] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[31] Univ Wisconsin, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophys Ctr, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[32] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[33] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[34] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[35] Tech Univ Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[36] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[37] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[38] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England
[39] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[40] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Phys, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[41] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA
[42] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[43] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[44] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[45] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Phys, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[46] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[47] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[48] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[49] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[50] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2015年 / 91卷 / 07期
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
TRACK RECONSTRUCTION; ENERGY-SPECTRUM; PERFORMANCE;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of data of the completed IceCube neutrino detector. DeepCore, a region of denser IceCube instrumentation, enables the detection and reconstruction of atmospheric muon neutrinos between 10 and 100 GeV, where a strong disappearance signal is expected. The IceCube detector volume surrounding DeepCore is used as a veto region to suppress the atmospheric muon background. Neutrino events are selected where the detected Cherenkov photons of the secondary particles minimally scatter, and the neutrino energy and arrival direction are reconstructed. Both variables are used to obtain the neutrino oscillation parameters from the data, with the best fit given by Delta m(32)(2) = 2.72(-0.20)(+0.19) x 10(-3) eV(2) and sin(2)theta(23) = 0.53(-0.12)(+0.09) (normal mass ordering assumed). The results are compatible, and comparable in precision, to those of dedicated oscillation experiments.
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