review of experimental results on atmospheric neutrinos
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Review of experimental results on atmospheric neutrinos. Univ. of Tokyo, Kamioka Observatory Masato Shiozawa. Introduction Super-Kamiokande MACRO Soudan 2 Summary. C Scientific American. Super-Kamiokande detector. Water Cherenkov detector. 1000 m underground - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Jan.-2002 @CERN
Review of experimental results on atmospheric neutrinos
Introduction Super-Kamiokande MACRO Soudan 2 Summary
Univ. of Tokyo, Kamioka ObservatoryMasato Shiozawa
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Super-Kamiokande detector
39.3 m
42 m
Water Cherenkovdetector
1000 m underground 50,000 ton (22,500 ton fid.) 11,146 20 inch PMTs 1,885 anti-counter PMTs
C Scientific American
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Phase-1 quick restart of K2K rebuild SK with about half PMT density by autumn of 2002 atmospheric ν, proton decay search solar ν, SN watch with higher energy threshold PMT vessel to prevent from chain reaction of explosion
Phase-2 full detector before the time of commissioning of JHF
Rebuilding Super-K
acrylic vessel acrylic+(FRP or stainless steel)
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Event classification of atmospheric ν
e/e/
Fully Contained (FC) Partially Contained (PC)
Upward through-going
Upward stopping
Contained event(sub-GeV, multi-GeV sample)
Eν ~ 1 GeV Eν ~ 10 GeV
Eν ~ 10 GeV (stop μ ) 100 GeV (through μ )
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Jan.-2002 @CERNZenith angle distributions(FC+PC+up-μ)
No oscillation (χ2
=393.4/172 d.o.f)
Best fit (m2=2.5x10-3eV2,sin22=1.00 χ2
min=157.5/170 d.o.f)νμ⇔ντ 2-flavor oscillations
~ 15km~ 13000km~ 500km ~ 13000km ~ 500km
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Combined allowed regions
→
Super-KamiokandeBest fit(Δm2=2.5×10-3,sin22θ=1.0
χ2min=157.5/170 d.o.f)
No oscillation
(χ2 =393.4/172 d.o.f)
Δm2 = (1.6 ~ 3.6)x10-3eV2
sin22θ > 0.9 @ 90%CL
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νμ⇔ντorνμ⇔νsterile?
Using MSW effect and enriched NC sample
→: No matter effect / NC interaction
→s : With matter effect / No NC interactionNeutrino oscillation in matter:
( ) = ( cosm
s
sinm
- sinm cosm ) 1 2( ) sin22m
sin22=
(cos2sin22= 2 GFnnE / m2 √
For sin22= 1
sin22m1~ + 1
And for E = 30~100 GeV ≫1 andsin22m≪1 Suppression !
Test zenith angle of NC enriched events, high energy PC and through-going muon events.
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νμ⇔ντorνμ⇔νsterile?
→s
→Evis> 5 GeV
<E>=~25 GeV
Zenith angle of high-E PC
up
/dow
n r
ati
o
cosΘ
→s
→
1 checking matter effect (partially contained events)
Up/down ratio of high-E PC
10-3 10-2
Δm2
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νμ⇔ντorνμ⇔νsterile?
→s
→
2 checking matter effect (upward through going μ)
Zenith angle of up through μ
cosΘ
vert
ical/
hori
zon
tal ra
tio
→
→s
V/H ratio of up through μ
10-3 10-2
Δm2
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νμ⇔ντorνμ⇔νsterile?
→s
→
3 checking NC enriched sample (multi-ring events)
Zenith angle of NC sample Up/down ratio of NC sample
cosΘ
up
/dow
n r
ati
o →
→s
10-3 10-2
Δm2
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Neutrino Decay
Neutrino Decay is a possible solution of the atmospheric neutrino problem (V.Barger et al.)
2
3
322μμ ))
E
L
2τ
mexp(sin(cos)νP(ν Survival probability without
neutrino oscillation(Δm2<<1)
FC 1-ring + PC + up-μdata are consistentwith neutrino decayscenario χ2
min=147.0/152 dof
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Jan.-2002 @CERNNeutrino Decay study with NC enriched sample
Deficit of up-going NCevents is expected forν decay scenario
)0.07(stat.1.06down
up
data
perform χ2 test to constrain neutrino decay parameters
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Result on neutrino decay study
The 99%CL allowed region by FC 1-ring+PC+up-μ sampleis excluded at 99%CL by the NC enriched sample.
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Jan.-2002 @CERNUpdate of neutrino crosssection(very preliminary)
c22
F2N2
QE θcosGMdq
dσ
Update parameters GF=1.16639×10-5
sinθc=0.22 ↓σ is increased by 5.8% (energy indep.)
free proton target bound nucleon target
blue newMagenta old
μν
μν
μν
blue newMagenta old
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Jan.-2002 @CERNUpdate of neutrino flux(very preliminary)
HONDA 1D (official)
Fluka 3D
HONDA 3D (new) 3D calculation dpmjet3 interaction model primary flux from BESS/AMS Ikenoyama effect
sub-GeV e
multi-GeV μmulti-GeV e
sub-GeV μ
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MACRO detector76.6m×12m×9.3m
streamer tubes
liq. scintillation counters(TOF system)
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Up throughgoing muons in MACRO
Obs. 863evObs. 809ev(BG sub.)Exp. 1122ev.(Bartol)
Obs./Exp.=0.721±0.026(stat)±0.043(sys)±0.123(th)
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90% allowed region from MACRO
χmin@(1.0,2.5×10-3eV2)
νμ⇔ντ
consistent with Super-K
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Low energy events in MACRO
Obs. 154ev.Exp. 285ev.Obs./Exp. = 0.54±0.04(stat)±0.05(sys)±0.13(th)
Obs. 262ev.(BG sub.)Exp. 375ev.Obs./Exp. = 0.70±0.04(stat)±0.07(sys)±0.17(th)
consistent with up throughgoing muon results
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HiRes event summary in Soudan 2
νμ νe
Obs. 114.0±10.7 140.0±11.8Obs.(Bgsub) 106.3±14.7 132.8±13.4Exp.(Bartol) 158.5±4.8 132.8±4.4 (renorm. to νe data)
HiRes sample Recoil proton + lepton(>150MeV/c) single lepton(>600MeV/c) multiprong (Evis>700MeV and |Σp|>450MeV/c)
R=(μ/e)data/ (μ/e)MC=0.67±0.12
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Soudan 2 allowed region
χmin@(0.9,7.9×10-3eV2)
consistent with Super-K
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Jan.-2002 @CERNSummary of atmospheric ν observations
Atmospheric neutrinos are measured using various techniques in SK, MACRO, Soudan 2
→ all consistent with each other
Δm2=1.6 ~ 3.6×10-3, sin22θ>0.9 for νμ⇔ντ
sterile neutrino is disfavored as a prominent oscillation partner
neutrino decay scenario with Δm2<<1 is excluded at
99% C τ likelihood distributions