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Measurement Of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations At 6–56 Gev With Icecube Deepcore, Karen Andeen
Measurement Of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations At 6–56 Gev With Icecube Deepcore, Karen Andeen
Physics Faculty Research and Publications
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/Eν as long-baseline experiments but with substantially higher-energy neutrinos. This analysis uses neutrinos from the full sky with reconstructed energies …
Multiwavelength Follow-Up Of A Rare Icecube Neutrino Multiplet, Karen Andeen
Multiwavelength Follow-Up Of A Rare Icecube Neutrino Multiplet, Karen Andeen
Physics Faculty Research and Publications
On February 17, 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with coming from the same point in the sky. Such a triplet is expected once every 13.7 years as a random coincidence of background events. However, considering the lifetime of the follow-up program the probability of detecting at least one triplet from atmospheric background is 32%. Follow-up observatories were notified in order to search for an electromagnetic counterpart. Observations were obtained by Swift’s X-ray telescope, by ASAS-SN, LCO and MASTER at optical wavelengths, …