Published August 14, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

  • 1. Institut d'Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, C/ Paranimf 1, 46730 Gandia (Spain)
  • 2. CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille (France)
  • 3. GRPHE – Institut universitaire de technologie de Colmar, 34 rue du Grillenbreit, BP 50568, 68008 Colmar (France)
  • 4. Technical University of Catalonia, Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Rambla Exposició, 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 5. INFN - Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova (Italy)
  • 6. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
  • 7. Direction des Sciences de la Matière, Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers, Service d'Electronique des Détecteurs et d'Informatique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France)
  • 8. Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Description

The data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2010, a total live time of 863 days, are used to measure the oscillation parameters of atmospheric neutrinos. Muon tracks are reconstructed with energies as low as 20 GeV. Neutrino oscillations will cause a suppression of vertical upgoing muon neutrinos of such energies crossing the Earth. The parameters determining the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos are extracted by fitting the event rate as a function of the ratio of the estimated neutrino energy and reconstructed flight path through the Earth. Measurement contours of the oscillation parameters in a two-flavour approximation are derived. Assuming maximal mixing, a mass difference of Δm322=(3.1±0.9)⋅10-3 eV2 is obtained, in good agreement with the world average value.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.002

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.002;
arXiv
arXiv:1206.0645v2;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00740-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
714
Journal Issue
2-5
Journal Page Range
p. 224-230
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.