Development of a general analysis and unfolding scheme and its application to measure the energy spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube

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“…After a few years of operation, statistics have been accumulated and a number of studies of atmospheric neutrinos have been performed. Atmospheric neutrino flux measurements have been carried out in a wide range of energies [112][113][114][115][116][117], low-energy atmospheric neutrino data have been considered to constrain neutrino oscillation parameters to levels comparable to other neutrino oscillation experiments [51,52], low-energy data have also been used to set constraints on matter NSI [49], and light sterile neutrinos, claimed as possible explanations of short baseline Figure 8. Posterior (68% and 95%) probability contours for two 10-year forecasts of high-energy atmospheric neutrino data in IceCube.…”

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confidence: 99%

Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube

Salvadó

Mena

Palomares‐Ruiz

et al. 2017

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Non-standard interactions in the propagation of neutrinos in matter can lead to significant deviations from expectations within the standard neutrino oscillation framework and atmospheric neutrino detectors have been considered to set constraints. However, most previous works have focused on relatively low-energy atmospheric neutrino data. Here, we consider the one-year high-energy through-going muon data in IceCube, which has been already used to search for light sterile neutrinos, to constrain new interactions in the µτ -sector. In our analysis we include several systematic uncertainties on both, the atmospheric neutrino flux and on the detector properties, which are accounted for via nuisance parameters. After considering different primary cosmic-ray spectra and hadronic interaction models, we improve over previous analysis by using the latest data and showing that systematics currently affect very little the bound on the off-diagonal ε µτ , with the 90% credible interval given by −6.0 × 10 −3 < ε µτ < 5.4 × 10 −3 , comparable to previous results. In addition, we also estimate the expected sensitivity after 10 years of collected data in IceCube and study the precision at which non-standard parameters could be determined for the case of ε µτ near its current bound.

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confidence: 99%

Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube

Salvadó

Mena

Palomares‐Ruiz

et al. 2017

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…In Fig. 3 we also show the neutrino spectra as obtained by IceCube-59 [24] and IceCube-79 [8]. Given the smaller statistics of events, the former data points are expected to trace only the atmospheric contribution to the total neutrino flux in the high energy regime.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Given such uncertainties, it appears that a separation between the low rigidity and high rigidity cases is possible for neutrino energies above ∼ 100 TeV, although in that energy region the current statistics of events is rather low and the contribution of astrophysical neutrinos to the total flux is important. With all these caveats, we computed the average residual of the IC-59 [24] data with respect to the top of the KG and ARGO band for the 5 most energetic datapoints: we obtain 0.9…”

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Atmospheric neutrinos and the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum

Mascaretti

Blasi

Evoli

2020

Astroparticle Physics

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The nature of the knee in the all-particle spectrum of cosmic rays remains subject of much investigation, especially in the aftermath of recent measurements claiming the detection of a knee-like feature in the spectrum of the light component of cosmic rays at energy ∼ 700 TeV, at odds with the standard picture in which the knee in the all-particle spectrum is dominated by light cosmic rays. Here we investigate the implications of this and other scenarios in terms of the measured flux of atmospheric neutrinos. In particular we discuss the possibility that the spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos in the region 50 TeV may provide information about the different models for the mass composition in the knee region. We investigate the dependence of the predicted atmospheric neutrino flux on the shape of the light cosmic ray spectra and on the interaction models describing the development of showers in the atmosphere. The implications of all these factors for the identification of the onset of an astrophysical neutrino component are discussed.

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“…Atmospheric neutrinos have been measured over a wide energy range [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and multiple models predict their flux [10,21,22] (see Fig. 1).…”

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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes

Yañez¹,

Kouchner

2015

Advances in High Energy Physics

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Neutrino oscillations have been probed during the last few decades using multiple neutrino sources and experimental set-ups. In the recent years, very large volume neutrino telescopes have started contributing to the field. First ANTARES and then IceCube have relied on large and sparsely instrumented volumes to observe atmospheric neutrinos for combinations of baselines and energies inaccessible to other experiments. Using this advantage, the latest result from IceCube starts approaching the precision of other established technologies, and is paving the way for future detectors, such as ORCA and PINGU. These new projects seek to provide better measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, and eventually determine the neutrino mass ordering. The results from running experiments and the potential from proposed projects are discussed in this review, emphasizing the experimental challenges involved in the measurements.2 The determination of the mass ordering is sometimes confused with the determination of the neutrino "mass hierarchy", which requires additional information on the absolute scale of the neutrino masses [5]. Typeset by REVT E X arXiv:1509.08404v2 [hep-ex] 3 Nov 2015

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Development of a general analysis and unfolding scheme and its application to measure the energy spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube

Cited by 52 publications

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Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube

Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube

Atmospheric neutrinos and the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes

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