Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II
 
research article

Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II

Abbasi, R.
•
Abdou, Y.
•
Ackermann, M.
Show more
2009
Physical Review D [1970-2015]

The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be used to search for various phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity in the neutrino sector, such as violation of Lorentz invariance or quantum decoherence. Analyzing a set of 5511 candidate neutrino events collected during 1387 days of livetime from 2000 to 2006, we find no evidence for such effects and set upper limits on violation of Lorentz invariance and quantum decoherence parameters using a maximum likelihood method. Given the absence of evidence for new flavor-changing physics, we use the same methodology to determine the conventional atmospheric muon neutrino flux above 100 GeV.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.102005
Web of Science ID

WOS:000266501900011

Author(s)
Abbasi, R.
Abdou, Y.
Ackermann, M.
Adams, J.
Ahlers, M.
Andeen, K.
Auffenberg, J.
Bai, X.
Baker, M.
Barwick, S.
Show more
Corporate authors
IceCube Collaboration
Date Issued

2009

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review D [1970-2015]
Volume

79

Issue

10

Article Number

102005

Subjects

Lorentz Invariance Violation

•

Quantum Decoherence

•

Confidence-Intervals

•

Small Signals

•

Oscillations

•

Telescope

•

Gravity

•

Sensitivity

•

Scattering

•

Generator

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LPHE  
Available on Infoscience
November 5, 2010
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/57113
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés