28 July 2020 to 6 August 2020
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Europe/Prague timezone

Matter vs Vacuum Oscillations in Atmospheric Neutrinos

31 Jul 2020, 11:30
15m
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Talk 02. Neutrino Physics Neutrino Physics

Speaker

Jaydeep Datta

Description

Atmospheric neutrinos travel very long distances through earth matter. It is expected that the matter effects lead to significant changes in the neutrino survival and oscillation probabilities. Initial analysis of atmospheric neutrino data by the Super-Kamiokande collaboration is done using the vacuum oscillation hypothesis, which provided a good fit to the data. Existence of matter effects is well established for solar neutrino oscillations but not for atmospheric neutrino oscillations. In this work, we did a study to differentiate the effects of vacuum oscillations and matter modified oscillations in the atmospheric neutrino data. We find that magnetized iron detector, ICAL at INO, can make a 3 σ discrimination between vacuum oscillations and matter oscillations in ten years, for both normal and inverted hierarchies.

Primary authors

Jaydeep Datta Mohammad Nizam (HBNI,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Ali Ajmi Sankagiri Umasankar (IIT Bombay)

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