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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube

Aartsen, M. G.
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Abbasi, R.
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Abdou, Y.
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2013
Physical Review Letters

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.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.081801
Web of Science ID

WOS:000323334900005

Author(s)
Aartsen, M. G.
Abbasi, R.
Abdou, Y.
Ackermann, M.
Adams, J.
Aguilar, J. A.
Ahlers, M.
Altmann, D.
Auffenberg, J.
Bai, X.
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Corporate authors
IceCube Collaboration
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

111

Issue

8

Article Number

081801

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REVIEWED

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October 1, 2013
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