17–24 Jul 2024
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

Exploring tau neutrino appearance measurements in KM3NeT/ORCA

18 Jul 2024, 15:00
15m
Panorama

Panorama

Parallel session talk 02. Neutrino Physics Neutrino Physics

Speaker

Dr Chiara F Lastoria (LPC Caen, CNRS/IN2P3, Caen (France))

Description

Next-generation experiments aim at ensuring high-precision measurements of the oscillation parameters to reveal the main unknowns in neutrino physics. Among them, validating the three-flavors paradigm remains one of the most stimulating because it allows for exploring new physics.

KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino telescope, under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, whose primary physics goal is an early measurement of the neutrino mass ordering from the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos traversing the Earth. Thanks to its huge fiducial mass, KM3NeT/ORCA will have unprecedented statistics to exploit the tau neutrino appearance channels as an indirect test of the PMNS matrix unitarity and, thus, of the three-neutrino flavors paradigm. With a focus on the event reconstruction and selection methods, the results from the first blind measurement of the tau neutrino normalization performed by exploiting data collected with a partially instrumented volume will be presented.

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Primary author

Dr Chiara F Lastoria (LPC Caen, CNRS/IN2P3, Caen (France))

Presentation materials