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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II |
Author: | Abbasi, R. Hill, G. |
Citation: | Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2009; 79(10):1-15 |
Publisher: | American Physical Soc |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 1550-2368 |
Statement of Responsibility: | R. Abbasi ... G. C. Hill ... et al. (IceCube Collaboration) |
Abstract: | The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be used to search for various phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity in the neutrino sector, such as violation of Lorentz invariance or quantum decoherence. Analyzing a set of 5511 candidate neutrino events collected during 1387 days of livetime from 2000 to 2006, we find no evidence for such effects and set upper limits on violation of Lorentz invariance and quantum decoherence parameters using a maximum likelihood method. Given the absence of evidence for new flavor-changing physics, we use the same methodology to determine the conventional atmospheric muon neutrino flux above 100 GeV. |
Rights: | © 2009 The American Physical Society |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.102005 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.79.102005 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Chemistry and Physics publications |
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