Summer Blot: Where size matters: precision atmospheric neutrino oscillations with IceCube/DeepCore

Friday 11 Jun 2021, 12:30 → 14:00 Europe/London

https://zoom.us/j/304578256

The IceCube/DeepCore detector is a km^3-sized neutrino detector, buried deep under the ice at the geographic South Pole. It has been operating in its full configuration for over a decade, providing an enormous sample of high energy neutrinos that span the range from GeV up to PeV, and travel over extremely long distances. In this talk, I'll focus on the GeV regime where the DeepCore infill is used to detect atmospheric neutrinos. I will present a brand new measurement of the atmospheric neutrino mixing that uses only a subset of a recalibrated and reprocessed 8 year data sample, and yet still achieves the highest precision of any atmospheric neutrino oscillation measurement to date. As time allows, I will also discuss the future of atmospheric neutrino measurements at the South Pole, and what role these measurements can play within the wider neutrino oscillation community. 
 

Connections will begin at 12:30 with the seminar beginning at 13:00. Password for Zoom is NielsBohr.

SBlot_AtmNuOsc_Manchester.pdf