16–22 giu 2024
Milano
Europe/Rome fuso orario

Sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations

18 giu 2024, 17:30
2O
Near Aula Magna (U6 building) (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Near Aula Magna (U6 building)

University of Milano-Bicocca

Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano, 20126
Poster Neutrino oscillations Poster session and reception 1

Relatore

Kayla Leonard DeHolton (Pennsylvania State University)

Descrizione

IceCube DeepCore, the existing low-energy extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, was designed to lower the neutrino detection energy threshold to the GeV range. A new extension, called the IceCube Upgrade, will consist of seven additional strings installed within the DeepCore fiducial volume. These new strings will host modules with spacings of about 20 m horizontally and 3 m vertically, compared to about 40-70 m horizontally and 7 m vertically in DeepCore. It will be deployed in the polar season of 2025/26. This additional hardware features new types of optical modules with multi-PMT configurations, as well as calibration devices. This upgrade will more than triple the number of PMT channels with respect to current IceCube, and will significantly enhance its capabilities in the GeV energy range. However, the increased channel count also poses new computational challenges for the event simulation, selection, and reconstruction. In this contribution we present updated oscillation sensitivities based on the latest advancements in simulation, event selection, and reconstruction techniques.

Poster prize Yes
Given name Kayla
Surname Leonard DeHolton
First affiliation Penn State University
Institutional email kayla.deholton@icecube.wisc.edu
Gender Female
Collaboration (if any) IceCube Collaboration

Autori principali

Jan Weldert (Penn State University) Kayla Leonard DeHolton (Pennsylvania State University) Philipp Eller (Technical University of Munich) Rasmus Ørsøe (TUM)

Materiali di presentazione