2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Atmospheric Neutrino Measurement with IceCube Neutrino Observatory

17 Jun 2015, 15:00

15m

CCIS L2-190 (University of Alberta)

Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition) Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) W2-7 Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysics and Neutrinos (PPD) / Frontière cosmique : astrophysique et neutrinos (PPD)

Speaker

Tania Wood (University of Alberta)

Description

IceCube, the world’s largest neutrino detector, is designed to measure the highest energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical events. Augmented with a low-energy array, called DeepCore, IceCube has the ability to perform precision measurements of the high flux of atmospheric neutrinos for energies ranging from approximately 10 GeV to a few 100 TeV. When combined with the measurements by Super-Kamiokande, it is possible to create a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux over 7 orders of magnitude. Discussed will be the development of the DeepCore analysis for performing a forward-folding measurement of the atmospheric flux in the crucial overlap region of the detectors between 10 GeV and 100 GeV.