Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Analysis with Super-Kamiokande
M. Girgus
Full text: Not available
Abstract
We report a measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the atmospheric neutrino data collected by the Super-Kamiokande detector. In addition to the SK I-V pure-water phases (6511.3 live days), this analysis includes data from the gadolinium-loaded SK VI phase (564.4 live days), increasing the total exposure by $9\%$ relative to the last published study. The improved neutron tagging efficiency in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande was used to enhance the neutrino-antineutrino separation and improve the neutrino direction and energy reconstruction. The sensitivity of the oscillation analysis was further enhanced by implementing a neural network trained to identify tau neutrino events.

We also present a second atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis, in which the oscillatory pattern of the muon neutrino survival probability is studied directly as a function of the reconstructed neutrino flight length divided by the reconstructed neutrino energy, instead of the zenith angle and visible energy combination, resulting in enhanced sensitivity to the atmospheric $\Delta m^2$ parameter.
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in article format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in proceeding format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.