# TeV Particle Astrophysics 2016

Sep 12 – 16, 2016
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

## Neutrino Physics with the PINGU extension of IceCube

Sep 12, 2016, 4:30 PM
20m
13-2-005 (CERN)

### 13-2-005

#### CERN

Oral Contributions Neutrinos

### Speaker

David Jason Koskinen (University of Copenhagen)

### Description

The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy in-fill extension to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory that will feature the world's largest effective mass of a few MTon for neutrinos at an energy threshold of a few GeV. The unprecedented statistical sample of GeV-scale atmospheric neutrinos will enable PINGU to quickly and at a modest cost investigate the following: determination of the neutrino mass ordering, non-maximal $\theta_{23}$ and an ensuing octant determination, and unitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix via $\nu_\tau$ appearance. The physics topics extend beyond oscillation-based analyses to include tomography of the Earth’s core and indirect dark matter searches.

The status of the project will be presented.

### Primary author

David Jason Koskinen (University of Copenhagen)