Speaker
Description
KM3NeT is a distributed research infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea that will host a gigaton-scale neutrino telescope (ARCA) for high-energy neutrino astronomy, and a megaton-scale detector (ORCA) for neutrino oscillation studies with atmospheric neutrinos. ORCA is optimised for determining the neutrino mass ordering (NMO) by observing matter effects in atmospheric neutrino oscillations, providing a sensitivity to the NMO of approximately 3σ after 3 years of operation with the full detector. It will also measure the atmospheric mixing parameters Δm232 and θ23 using both the muon neutrino disappearance and tau neutrino appearance channels. Determining the tau neutrino appearance probability with unprecedented precision will provide for a powerful test of the unitarity of the 3-flavour mixing matrix. The observation of neutrino oscillations over a wide range of baselines and energies will provide broad sensitivity to new physics such as non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) and sterile neutrinos.
| Author's Name | Luigi Antonio Fusco |
|---|---|
| Author's Institute | Laboratoire APC |
| Author's e-mail | luigi.fusco@apc.in2p3.fr |
| Abstract Title | KM3NeT-ORCA: Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss |
| Subject | Neutrinos |
