Hecho con Indico
v3.2.5
Among the main physics goals of next-generation neutrino experiments, there will be high precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters as well as clarifying whether or not CP violation is present in the leptonic sector; in addition to them, testing the validity of the three-flavor paradigm remains one of the most stimulating because it allows for exploring new physics scenarios, beyond the Standard Model. The KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino telescope currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. By studying the oscillations of the atmospheric neutrino flux passing through the Earth, KM3NeT/ORCA's primary physics goal is an early measurement of the neutrino mass ordering; additionally, thanks to the accessible unprecedented statistics, it will have high sensitivity for the direct observation of tau neutrino appearance as a test of the standard three-neutrino flavors paradigm. Due to the KM3NeT detector's modular structure, neutrino oscillation analyses are possible also with a partially instrumented volume, the main one has been performed by exploiting data collected with 6 Detection Units (KM3NeT/ORCA6 - equivalent to 5% of the final geometry). Given that the neutrino flux composition is dominated by muon neutrinos producing a track-like topology in the detector, the tau neutrino appearance can be measured on a statistical basis and observed as an excess into the shower-like topology sample. In this seminar, the first measurement of the tau neutrino appearance performed on KM3NeT/ORCA 6 data will be presented; a particular focus will be dedicated to describing the event reconstruction and selection methods developed to distinguish between the two event topologies.
Seminario CFP, hibrido: Edificio 2, Sala María de Maeztu / Zoom
Coordenadas zoom: http://cfp.ciemat.es/zoomae/eventos