| Title: |
Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations with IceCube |
| Authors: |
Aartsen, MG; Abbasi, R; Abdou, Yasser; Ackermann, M; Adams, J; Aguilar, JA; Ahlers, M; Altmann, D; Auffenberg, J; Bai, X; Baker, M; Barwick, SW; Baum, V; Bay, R; Beatty, JJ; Bechet, S; Tjus, JB; Becker, KH; Bell, M; Benabderrahmane, ML; BenZvi, S; Berdermann, J; Berghaus, P; Berley, D; Bernardini, E; Bernhard, A; Bertrand, D; Besson, DZ; Binder, G; Bindig, D; Bissok, M; Blaufuss, E; Blumenthal, J; Boersma, DJ; Bohaichuk, S; Bohm, C; Bose, D; Boser, S; Botner, O; Brayeur, L; Bretz, HP; Brown, AM; Bruijn, R; Brunner, J; Carson, Michael; Casey, J; Casier, M; Chirkin, D; Christov, A; Christy, B; Clark, K; Clevermann, F; Coenders, S; Cohen, S; Cowen, DF; Silva, AHC; Danninger, M; Daughhetee, J; Davis, JC; De Clercq, C; De Ridder, Sam; Desiati, P; de With, M; DeYoung, T; Diaz-Velez, JC; Dunkman, M; Eagan, R; Eberhardt, B; Eisch, J; Ellsworth, RW; Euler, S; Evenson, PA; Fadiran, O; Fazely, AR; Fedynitch, A; Feintzeig, J; Feusels, Tom; Filimonov, K; Finley, C; Fischer-Wasels, T; Flis, S; Franckowiak, A; Franke, R; Frantzen, K; Fuchs, T; Gaisser, TK; Gallagher, J; Gerhardt, L; Gladstone, L; Glusenkamp, T; Goldschmidt, A; Golup, G; Gonzalez, JG; Goodman, JA; Gora, D; Grandmont, DT; Grant, D; Gross, A; Ha, C; Haj Ismail, Abd Al Karim; Hallen, P; Hallgren, A; Halzen, F; Hanson, K; Heereman, D; Heinen, D; Helbing, K; Hellauer, R; Hickford, S; Hill, GC; Hoffman, KD; Hoffmann, R; Homeier, A; Hoshina, K; Huelsnitz, W; Hulth, PO; Hultqvist, K; Hussain, S; Ishihara, A; Jacobi, E; Jacobsen, J; Jagielski, K; Japaridze, GS; Jero, K; Jlelati, Ola; Kaminsky, B; Kappes, A; Karg, T; Karle, A; Kelley, JL; Kiryluk, J; Kislat, F; Klas, J; Klein, SR; Kohne, JH; Kohnen, G; Kolanoski, H; Kopke, L; Kopper, C; Kopper, S; Koskinen, DJ; Kowalski, M; Krasberg, M; Krings, K; Kroll, G; Kunnen, J; Kurahashi, N; Kuwabara, T; Labare, Mathieu; Landsman, H; Larson, MJ; Lesiak-Bzdak, M; Leuermann, M; Leute, J; Lunemann, J; Madsen, J; Maruyama, R; Mase, K; Matis, HS; McNally, F; Meagher, K; Merck, M; Meszaros, P; Meures, T; Miarecki, S; Middell, E; Milke, N; Miller, J; Mohrmann, L; Montaruli, T; Morse, R; Nahnhauer, R; Naumann, U; Niederhausen, H; Nowicki, SC; Nygren, DR; Obertacke, A; Odrowski, S; Olivas, A; Olivo, M; O'Murchadha, A; Palazzo, A; Paul, L; Pepper, JA; de los Heros, CP; Pfendner, C; Pieloth, D; Pinat, E; Pirk, N; Posselt, J; Price, PB; Przybylski, GT; Radel, L; Rameez, M; Rawlins, K; Redl, P; Reimann, R; Resconi, E; Rhode, W; Ribordy, M; Richman, M; Riedel, B; Rodrigues, JP; Rott, C; Ruhe, T; Ruzybayev, B; Ryckbosch, Dirk; Saba, SM; Salameh, T; Sander, HG; Santander, M; Sarkar, S; Schatto, K; Scheel, M; Scheriau, F; Schmidt, T; Schmitz, M; Schoenen, S; Schoneberg, S; Schonwald, A; Schukraft, A; Schulte, L; Schulz, O; Seckel, D; Sestayo, Y; Seunarine, S; Sheremata, C; Smith, MWE; Soldin, D; Spiczak, GM; Spiering, C; Stamatikos, M; Stanev, T; Stasik, A; Stezelberger, T; Stokstad, RG; Stoss, A; Strahler, EA; Strom, R; Sullivan, GW; Taavola, H; Taboada, I; Tamburro, A; Tepe, A; Ter-Antonyan, S; Tesic, G; Tilav, S; Toale, PA; Toscano, S; Usner, M; van der Drift, D; van Eijndhoven, N; Van Overloop, Arne; van Santen, J; Vehring, M; Voge, M; Vraeghe, Matthias; Walck, C; Waldenmaier, T; Wallraff, M; Wasserman, R; Weaver, C; Wellons, M; Wendt, C; Westerhoff, S; Whitehorn, N; Wiebe, K; Wiebusch, CH; Williams, DR; Wissing, H; Wolf, M; Wood, TR; Woschnagg, K; Xu, C; Xu, DL; Xu, XW; Yanez, JP; Yodh, G; Yoshida, S; Zarzhitsky, P; Ziemann, J; Zierke, S; Zoll, M |
| Source: |
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS ; ISSN: 0031-9007 |
| Publication Year: |
2013 |
| Collection: |
Ghent University Academic Bibliography |
| Subject Terms: |
Physics and Astronomy; SYSTEM; TELESCOPE; PERFORMANCE |
| Description: |
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 and 2011. This measurement is made possible by the low-energy threshold of the DeepCore detector (similar to 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. The disappearance of low-energy upward-going muon neutrinos was observed, and the nonoscillation 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 vertical bar Delta m(32)(2)vertical bar = (2.3(-0.5)(+0.6)) x 10(-3) eV(2) and sin(2) (2 theta(23)) > 0.93, and maximum mixing is favored. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4436127; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.081801; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4436127/file/4439869 |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.081801 |
| Availability: |
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4436127; https://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4436127; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.081801; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4436127/file/4439869 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F0E38E3F |
| Database: |
BASE |