Measurement of the tau neutrino cross section in atmospheric neutrino oscillations with Super-Kamiokande

Li, Z.; Bronner, C.; Hayato, Y.; Ikeda, M.; Iyogi, K.; Kameda, J.; Kato, Yuta; Kishimoto, Y.; Marti, Ll.; Miura, Makoto; Moriyama, S.; Nakahata, M.; Nakajima, Yasuhiro; Nakano, Y.; Nakayama, S.; Orii, A.; Pronost, G.; Sekiya, H.; Shiozawa, M.; Sonoda, Y.; Takeda, Atsushi; Takenaka, A.; Tasaka, S.; Tomura, T.; Akutsu, R.; Kajita, T.; Nishimura, Y.; Okumura, K.; Tsui, K. M.; Fernández, P.; Labarga, L.; Blaszczyk, F. d. M.; Gustafson, J.; Kachulis, C.; Kearns, E.; Raaf, J. L.; Stone, J. L.; Sulak, L.; Berkman, S.; Tobayama, S.; Elnimr, M.; Kropp, W. R.; Locke, S.; Mine, S.; Weatherly, P.; Smy, M.; Sobel, H. W.; Takhistov, Volodymyr; Ganezer, K. S.; Hill, J.; Kim, J. Y.; Lim, I. T.; Park, R. G.; Himmel, A.; O’Sullivan, Erin; Scholberg, K.; Walter, C. W.; Ishizuka, T.; Nakamura, T.; Jang, J. S.; Choi, Koun; Learned, J. G.; Matsuno, S.; Smith, S. N.; Amey, Jake Lewis; Litchfield, R. P.; Y., W.; Uchida, Y.; Wascko, M. O.; Cao, S.; Friend, M.; Hasegawa, T.; Ishida, Toru; Ishii, T.; Kobayashi, T.; Nakadaira, T.; Oyama, Y.; Sakashita, K.; Sekiguchi, T.; Tsukamoto, T.; Abe, K.; Hasegawa, M.; Suzuki, A.; Takeuchi, Y.; Yano, T.; Hayashino, T.; Hiraki, T.; Hirota, S.; Huang, K.; Jiang, M.; Mori, Masao; Nakamura, K.; Nakaya, T.; Patel, N. D.; Wendell, R.; Anthony, L. H. V.; McCauley, N.; Pritchard, A.; Fukuda, Y.; Itow, Y.; Murase, M.; Muto, Fumihito; Mijakowski, P.; Frankiewicz, K.; Jung, C. K.; Li, X.; Palomino, J. L.; Santucci, G.; Vilela, C.; Wilking, M. J.; Yanagisawa, C.; Gao, Yang; Ito, S.; Fukuda, Daisuke; Ishino, H.; Kibayashi, A.; Koshio, Y.; Nagata, Hiroshi; Sakuda, M.; Xu, Chenyuan; Kuno, Y.; Wark, D.; Lodovico, F. Di; Richards, B.; Sedgwick, S. Molina; Tacik, R.; Kim, S. B.; Cole, A. A.; Thompson, L. F.; Okazawa, H.; Choi, Y.; Ito, K.; Nishijima, K.; Koshiba, M.; Suda, Y.; Yokoyama, M.; Calland, R. G.; Hartz, M.; Martens, K.; Murdoch, M.; Quilain, B.; Simpson, C.; Suzuki, Y.; Vagins, M. R.; Hamabe, D.; Kuze, M.; Okajima, Y.; Yoshida, T.; Ishitsuka, M.; Martin, J. F.; Nantais, C.; Tanaka, Hirohisa; Towstego, T.; Konaka, A.; Chen, S.; Wan, L.; Zhang, Y.; Minamino, A.; Wilkes, R. J.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.98.052006

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“…15 −0.14 ) at the two sigma level), where σ 0 is the SM expectation, after seven years of data taking (3.5 years in neutrino and antineutrino mode, respectively). This can be compared to current results from OPERA, σ = σ 0 (1.2 +0.6 −0.5 ) [23] and Super-Kamiokande, σ = σ 0 (1.47 ± 0.32) [2]. Note that these are not apples-to-apples comparisons.…”

Section: The ν τ Sample At Dunementioning

confidence: 83%

“…When it comes to both confirming the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm and determining the oscillation parameters, all current statistical power comes from studies of ν µ and ν e (plus antineutrinos) disappearance and ν µ → ν e (plus antineutrinos) appearance. While there is definitive evidence for ν µ → ν τ appearance from both atmospheric [1][2][3] and beam [4] neutrino experiments, the quantitative impact of the current ν τ appearance data is, at best, sub-dominant. * Among the goals of the next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiments -the Long-Baseline Neutrino facility to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (LBNF-DUNE) in the United States and the Tokai to Hyper-Kamiokande (T2HK) experiment in Japan -are the precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, exploring CP-invariance violation in the neutrino sector, and, perhaps most important, testing the validity of the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm and looking for more new physics in the neutrino sector.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…35 GeV for ν τ + N → τ + N , where N is a nucleon, and E ντ 3.1 TeV for ν τ + e → τ + ν e ). Given the beam energies of LBNF-DUNE and T2HK, driven by the requirement that large ∆m 2 31 -driven oscillation effects are observed in the far detector, only LBNF-DUNE is expected to observe beam events with neutrino energies above the τ -threshold. Even at LBNF-DUNE, phase-space-suppression effects are large and the ν τ appearance event sample is expected to contain, for the lifetime of the experiment, between 100 and 1,000 events.…”

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We explore the capabilities of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to measure ν τ charged-current interactions and the associated oscillation probability P (ν µ → ν τ ) at its far detector, concentrating on how such results can be used to probe neutrino properties and interactions. DUNE has the potential to identify significantly more ν τ events than all existing experiments and can use this data sample to nontrivially test the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm by providing complementary measurements to those from the ν e appearance and ν µ disappearance channels. We further discuss the sensitivity of the ν τ appearance channel to several hypotheses for the physics that may lurk beyond the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm: a non-unitary lepton mixing matrix, the 3 + 1 light neutrinos hypothesis, and the existence of non-standard neutral-current neutrino interactions. Throughout, we also consider the relative benefits of the proposed high-energy tune of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) beam-line.

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“…Measurements of neutrino cross sections have been performed from sub-GeV up to a few PeV energies [52]. This includes a multitude of results using human-made neutrinos in accelerator [53,54] and reactor [55,56] experiments, as well as natural sources such as solar [57], atmospheric [58], and astrophysical neutrinos [59,60]; for recent reviews see [61,62]. In the future, measurements of high-energy neutrinos from collider experiments will be available in the TeV range [63,64].…”

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Observing EeV neutrinos through Earth: GZK and the anomalous ANITA events

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Argüelles

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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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Tau neutrinos are unique cosmic messengers, especially at extreme energies. When they undergo a charged-current interaction, the short lifetime of the produced tau gives rise to secondary tau neutrinos that carry a significant fraction of the primary neutrino energy. This effect, known as tau neutrino regeneration, has not been applied to its full potential in current generation neutrino experiments. In this work, we present an updated calculation of tau neutrino regeneration, and explore its implications for two scenarios: the recent anomalous ANITA events and the cosmogenic neutrino flux. For the former, we investigate the idea of localized emission and find that the maximum secondary neutrino flux allowed by IceCube measurements implies a primary flux that is incompatible with the ANITA observation, regardless of the assumed source energy spectrum. For the latter, we study the prospect of detecting the cosmogenic neutrino flux of regenerated PeV neutrinos with current and next generation neutrino detectors.

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“…So far the tau neutrino interaction cross section was only measured in the DONuT [7], OPERA [8] and SK [23] experiments though under rather different conditions. DONuT was the first experiment which has directly registered 9 events of the ν τ CC interactions in the accelerator-based neutrino beam and extracted the value of the cross section under certain assumptions on the tau neutrinos flux.…”

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DsTau: study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS

Aoki

Ariga

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J. High Energ. Phys.

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In the DsTau experiment at the CERN SPS, an independent and direct way to measure tau neutrino production following high energy proton interactions was proposed. As the main source of tau neutrinos is a decay of D s mesons, produced in proton-nucleus interactions, the project aims at measuring a differential cross section of this reaction. The experimental method is based on a use of high resolution emulsion detectors for effective registration of events with short lived particle decays. Here we present the motivation of the study, details of the experimental technique, and the first results of the analysis of the data collected during test runs, which prove feasibility of the full scale study of the process in future.

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Measurement of the tau neutrino cross section in atmospheric neutrino oscillations with Super-Kamiokande

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Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE

Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE

Observing EeV neutrinos through Earth: GZK and the anomalous ANITA events

DsTau: study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS

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