Neutrino mass Hierarchy measurement with the ORCA detector

by Dr Antoine Kouchner (Inst. de Astroparticules, Paris 7, France)

Wednesday 23 Mar 2016, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

601 (Dip.to di Fisica Univ.Genova)

ORCA (Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector in the Mediterranean. Its primary goal is to resolve the long-standing unsolved question of the neutrino mass ordering by measuring matter oscillation effects in atmospheric neutrinos. In addition, the detection of neutrinos from the self-annihilation reactions of particles in the GeV-TeV mass range will represent the first evidence of a Dark Matter signal. To be deployed at the French KM3NeT site, ORCA's multi-PMT optical modules will exploit the excellent optical properties of deep seawater to reconstruct cascade and track events with a few GeV of energy.

Slides MedNT_Genova16_final.pdf