24–29 Aug 2014
Hamburg University
Europe/Berlin timezone

Neutrino Physics with the Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU)

28 Aug 2014, 14:40
20m
Hörsaal M (Main Building)

Hörsaal M

Main Building

Talk 3) Neutrinos and related astrophysical implications Neutrinos and related astrophysical implications

Speaker

Dr Tomasz Palczewski (The University of Alabama)

Description

The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy extension to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole. PINGU will increase IceCube’s sensitivity to neutrinos with energies down to a few GeV with a multi-megaton effective volume. For every year of PINGU detector operation, tens of thousands of atmospheric neutrinos will be collected. This high statistics dataset will allow PINGU to resolve the neutrino mass hierarchy (NMH) via study of atmospheric neutrinos that undergo Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein and parametric oscillations as they pass through the Earth. The distinction between the normal and inverted NMH at 3sigma significance should be achieved with an estimated 3.5 years of data using current baseline geometry. The full complement of systematic uncertainties and the results from an initial geometry optimization will be presented. I will also discuss the PINGU sensitivity to precision measurements of atmospheric neutrino mass-mixing parameters.

Primary author

Dr Tomasz Palczewski (The University of Alabama)

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