TY - JOUR
T1 - Atmospheric tau neutrinos in a multikiloton liquid argon detector
AU - Conrad, Janet
AU - De Gouvêa, André
AU - Shalgar, Shashank
AU - Spitz, Joshua
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/11/16
Y1 - 2010/11/16
N2 - An ultralarge liquid argon time projection chamber based neutrino detector will have the uncommon ability to detect atmospheric ντ/ ν̄τ events. This paper discusses the most promising modes for identifying charged current ντ/ν ̄τ, and shows that, with simple kinematic cuts, ∼30ντ+ν̄τ interactions can be isolated in a 100kt•yr exposure, with greater than 4σ significance. This sample is sufficient to perform flux-averaged total cross-section and cross-section shape parametrization measurements-the first steps toward using ντ/ν̄τ to search for physics beyond the standard model.
AB - An ultralarge liquid argon time projection chamber based neutrino detector will have the uncommon ability to detect atmospheric ντ/ ν̄τ events. This paper discusses the most promising modes for identifying charged current ντ/ν ̄τ, and shows that, with simple kinematic cuts, ∼30ντ+ν̄τ interactions can be isolated in a 100kt•yr exposure, with greater than 4σ significance. This sample is sufficient to perform flux-averaged total cross-section and cross-section shape parametrization measurements-the first steps toward using ντ/ν̄τ to search for physics beyond the standard model.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.093012
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.093012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78651075253
VL - 82
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 9
M1 - 093012
ER -