Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

M G Aartsen¹, M Ackermann², J Adams³, J A Aguilar⁴, M Ahlers⁵, M Ahrens⁶, I Al Samarai⁷, D Altmann⁸, K Andeen⁹, T Anderson¹⁰, I Ansseau⁴, G Anton⁸, C Argüelles¹¹, J Auffenberg¹², S Axani¹¹, H Bagherpour³, X Bai¹³, J P Barron¹⁴, S W Barwick¹⁵, V Baum¹⁶, R Bay¹⁷, J J Beatty^{18

19}, J Becker Tjus²⁰, K-H Becker²¹, S BenZvi²², D Berley²³, E Bernardini², D Z Besson²⁴, G Binder^{17

25}, D Bindig²¹, E Blaufuss²³, S Blot², C Bohm⁶, M Börner²⁶, F Bos²⁰, D Bose²⁷, S Böser¹⁶, O Botner²⁸, J Bourbeau²⁹, F Bradascio², J Braun²⁹, L Brayeur³⁰, M Brenzke¹², H-P Bretz², S Bron⁷, J Brostean-Kaiser², A Burgman²⁸, T Carver⁷, J Casey²⁹, M Casier³⁰, E Cheung²³, D Chirkin²⁹, A Christov⁷, K Clark³¹, L Classen³², S Coenders³³, G H Collin¹¹, J M Conrad¹¹, D F Cowen^{34

10}, R Cross²², M Day²⁹, J P A M de André³⁵, C De Clercq³⁰, J J DeLaunay¹⁰, H Dembinski³⁶, S De Ridder³⁷, P Desiati²⁹, K D de Vries³⁰, G de Wasseige³⁰, M de With³⁸, T DeYoung³⁵, J C Díaz-Vélez²⁹, V di Lorenzo¹⁶, H Dujmovic²⁷, J P Dumm⁶, M Dunkman¹⁰, B Eberhardt¹⁶, T Ehrhardt¹⁶, B Eichmann²⁰, P Eller¹⁰, P A Evenson³⁶, S Fahey²⁹, A R Fazely³⁹, J Felde²³, K Filimonov¹⁷, C Finley⁶, S Flis⁶, A Franckowiak², E Friedman²³, T Fuchs²⁶, T K Gaisser³⁶, J Gallagher⁴⁰, L Gerhardt²⁵, K Ghorbani²⁹, W Giang¹⁴, T Glauch¹², T Glüsenkamp⁸, A Goldschmidt²⁵, J G Gonzalez³⁶, D Grant¹⁴, Z Griffith²⁹, C Haack¹², A Hallgren²⁸, F Halzen²⁹, K Hanson²⁹, D Hebecker³⁸, D Heereman⁴, K Helbing²¹, R Hellauer²³, S Hickford²¹, J Hignight³⁵, G C Hill¹, K D Hoffman²³, R Hoffmann²¹, B Hokanson-Fasig²⁹, K Hoshina²⁹, F Huang¹⁰, M Huber³³, K Hultqvist⁶, M Hünnefeld²⁶, S In²⁷, A Ishihara⁴¹, E Jacobi², G S Japaridze⁴², M Jeong²⁷, K Jero²⁹, B J P Jones⁴³, P Kalaczynski¹², W Kang²⁷, A Kappes³², T Karg², A Karle²⁹, U Katz⁸, M Kauer²⁹, A Keivani¹⁰, J L Kelley²⁹, A Kheirandish²⁹, J Kim²⁷, M Kim⁴¹, T Kintscher², J Kiryluk⁴⁴, T Kittler⁸, S R Klein^{17

25}, G Kohnen⁴⁵, R Koirala³⁶, H Kolanoski³⁸, L Köpke¹⁶, C Kopper¹⁴, S Kopper⁴⁶, J P Koschinsky¹², D J Koskinen⁵, M Kowalski^{38

2}, K Krings³³, M Kroll²⁰, G Krückl¹⁶, J Kunnen³⁰, S Kunwar², N Kurahashi⁴⁷, T Kuwabara⁴¹, A Kyriacou¹, M Labare³⁷, J L Lanfranchi¹⁰, M J Larson⁵, F Lauber²¹, D Lennarz³⁵, M Lesiak-Bzdak⁴⁴, M Leuermann¹², Q R Liu²⁹, L Lu⁴¹, J Lünemann³⁰, W Luszczak²⁹, J Madsen⁴⁸, G Maggi³⁰, K B M Mahn³⁵, S Mancina²⁹, R Maruyama⁴⁹, K Mase⁴¹, R Maunu²³, F McNally²⁹, K Meagher⁴, M Medici⁵, M Meier²⁶, T Menne²⁶, G Merino²⁹, T Meures⁴, S Miarecki^{17

25}, J Micallef³⁵, G Momenté¹⁶, T Montaruli⁷, R W Moore¹⁴, M Moulai¹¹, R Nahnhauer², P Nakarmi⁴⁶, U Naumann²¹, G Neer³⁵, H Niederhausen⁴⁴, S C Nowicki¹⁴, D R Nygren²⁵, A Obertacke Pollmann²¹, A Olivas²³, A O'Murchadha⁴, T Palczewski^{17

25}, H Pandya³⁶, D V Pankova¹⁰, P Peiffer¹⁶, J A Pepper⁴⁶, C Pérez de Los Heros²⁸, D Pieloth²⁶, E Pinat⁴, M Plum⁹, P B Price¹⁷, G T Przybylski²⁵, C Raab⁴, L Rädel¹², M Rameez⁵, K Rawlins⁵⁰, I C Rea³³, R Reimann¹², B Relethford⁴⁷, M Relich⁴¹, E Resconi³³, W Rhode²⁶, M Richman⁴⁷, S Robertson¹, M Rongen¹², C Rott²⁷, T Ruhe²⁶, D Ryckbosch³⁷, D Rysewyk³⁵, T Sälzer¹², S E Sanchez Herrera¹⁴, A Sandrock²⁶, J Sandroos¹⁶, S Sarkar^{5

51}, S Sarkar¹⁴, K Satalecka², P Schlunder²⁶, T Schmidt²³, A Schneider²⁹, S Schoenen¹², S Schöneberg²⁰, L Schumacher¹², D Seckel³⁶, S Seunarine⁴⁸, J Soedingrekso²⁶, D Soldin²¹, M Song²³, G M Spiczak⁴⁸, C Spiering², J Stachurska², M Stamatikos¹⁸, T Stanev³⁶, A Stasik², J Stettner¹², A Steuer¹⁶, T Stezelberger²⁵, R G Stokstad²⁵, A Stößl⁴¹, N L Strotjohann², G W Sullivan²³, M Sutherland¹⁸, I Taboada⁵², J Tatar^{17

25}, F Tenholt²⁰, S Ter-Antonyan³⁹, A Terliuk², G Tešić¹⁰, S Tilav³⁶, P A Toale⁴⁶, M N Tobin²⁹, S Toscano³⁰, D Tosi²⁹, M Tselengidou⁸, C F Tung⁵², A Turcati³³, C F Turley¹⁰, B Ty²⁹, E Unger²⁸, M Usner², J Vandenbroucke²⁹, W Van Driessche³⁷, N van Eijndhoven³⁰, S Vanheule³⁷, J van Santen², M Vehring¹², E Vogel¹², M Vraeghe³⁷, C Walck⁶, A Wallace¹, M Wallraff¹², F D Wandler¹⁴, N Wandkowsky²⁹, A Waza¹², C Weaver¹⁴, M J Weiss¹⁰, C Wendt²⁹, J Werthebach²⁶, S Westerhoff²⁹, B J Whelan¹, K Wiebe¹⁶, C H Wiebusch¹², L Wille²⁹, D R Williams⁴⁶, L Wills⁴⁷, M Wolf²⁹, J Wood²⁹, T R Wood¹⁴, E Woolsey¹⁴, K Woschnagg¹⁷, D L Xu²⁹, X W Xu³⁹, Y Xu⁴⁴, J P Yanez¹⁴, G Yodh¹⁵, S Yoshida⁴¹, T Yuan²⁹, M Zoll⁶; IceCube Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
² DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁴ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁸ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
⁹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹¹ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹² III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
¹³ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1.
¹⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
¹⁶ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
¹⁷ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²⁰ Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
²¹ Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
²² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²³ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁵ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
²⁷ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea.
²⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
²⁹ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
³⁰ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
³¹ SNOLAB, 1039 Regional Road 24, Creighton Mine 9, Lively, Ontario, Canada P3Y 1N2.
³² Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³³ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
³⁴ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
³⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³⁶ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
³⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
³⁸ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
³⁹ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴¹ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁴² CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
⁴⁵ Université de Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom.
⁵² School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.

PMID: 29542976
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.071801

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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

M G Aartsen et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2018.

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. 2018 Feb 16;120(7):071801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.071801.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
² DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁴ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁸ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
⁹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹¹ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹² III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
¹³ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1.
¹⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
¹⁶ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
¹⁷ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²⁰ Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
²¹ Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
²² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²³ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁵ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
²⁷ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea.
²⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
²⁹ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
³⁰ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
³¹ SNOLAB, 1039 Regional Road 24, Creighton Mine 9, Lively, Ontario, Canada P3Y 1N2.
³² Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³³ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
³⁴ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
³⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³⁶ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
³⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
³⁸ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
³⁹ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴¹ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁴² CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
⁴⁵ Université de Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom.
⁵² School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.

PMID: 29542976
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.071801

Abstract

We present a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters using three years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore infill array in the center of IceCube enables the detection and reconstruction of neutrinos produced by the interaction of cosmic rays in Earth's atmosphere at energies as low as ∼5 GeV. That energy threshold permits measurements of muon neutrino disappearance, over a range of baselines up to the diameter of the Earth, probing the same range of L/E_{ν} as long-baseline experiments but with substantially higher-energy neutrinos. This analysis uses neutrinos from the full sky with reconstructed energies from 5.6 to 56 GeV. We measure Δm_{32}^{2}=2.31_{-0.13}^{+0.11}×10^{-3} eV^{2} and sin^{2}θ_{23}=0.51_{-0.09}^{+0.07}, assuming normal neutrino mass ordering. These results are consistent with, and of similar precision to, those from accelerator- and reactor-based experiments.

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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

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