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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II

A. PiegsaKarl-heinz SulankeG. W. SullivanJames E. BraunP. BerghausM. PrikockisT. WaldenmaierJoanna KirylukJoanna KirylukM. LabareKaren AndeenS. BöserD. TosiS. EulerJohn ClemD. J. BoersmaS. SeunarineM. SchunckS. StoyanovJohan LundbergM. WalterA. RizzoCarsten RottC. P. McparlandN. Van EijndhovenPratik MajumdarS. H. SeoQ. SwillensM. BissokDamian PielothD. HubertSubir SarkarT. KowarikF. RothmaierK. BeattieS. J. PattonJenni AdamsR. WischnewskiO. SchulzA. GoldschmidtGerald PrzybylskiM. InabaChad FinleyR. GanugapatiA. C. PohlA. C. PohlR. NahnhauerK. HultqvistD. BertrandDarren GrantK. MaseD. F. CowenXianwu XuJ. P. DummR. L. ImlayK. KuehnA. Van OverloopJ. M. JosephP. RothB. VoigtL. KöpkeXinhua BaiS. HickfordP. B. PriceM. DanningerChristian BohmR. G. StokstadN. MilkeDavid A. SchneiderGeorge JaparidzeK. MünichK. HanAya IshiharaJ. AuffenbergT. O. B. SchmidtJ. L. KelleyC. HaMarkus AhlersTodor StanevC. WendtO. EngdegårdS. BechetM. R. DuvoortDirk LennarzD. BerleyG. C. HillM. L. BenabderrahmaneD. Z. BessonP. RedlKurt WoschnaggF. DescampsH. MiyamotoLaura C. BradleyA. WiedemannPaul EvensonOlga BotnerR. MorseR. PorrataR. FrankeO. DepaepeElisa ResconiJ. BerdermannW. HuelsnitzM. TluczykontL. DemirörsA. SlipakS. TilavParaic A. KennyA. GroßA. GroßC. WalckT. KuwabaraL. GladstoneD. SeckelA. R. FazelyDmitry ChirkinA. LuckeAlexander KappesAlexander KappesC. Pérez De Los HerosJohn HeiseJ. K. BeckerKarl-heinz KampertKirill FilimonovM. OnoW. R. EdwardsB. ChristyThomas K. GaisserG. B. YodhY. HasegawaJ. BolmontNathan WhitehornS. CohenHenrik J. JohanssonE. BlaufussSamvel Ter-antonyanTyce DeyoungP. A. ToaleM. GurtnerA. MohrE. MiddellElisa BernardiniJ. LünemannSpencer KleinSpencer KleinJ. L. Bazo AlbaK. HelbingR. C. BayJ.-p. HülßP. NießenM. M. FoersterG. StephensS. WesterhoffT. CastermansAlbrecht KarleT. FeuselsM. RibordyM. MerckM. C. StouferR. J. LauerJ. C. GallagherH. S. MatisK.-h. BeckerC. De ClercqJ. PetrovicR. M. GunasinghaS. M. MovitH. G. SanderD. TurcanB. D. FoxFrancis HalzenJuan Carlos Diaz-velezAllan HallgrenJ. E. JacobsenDavid A. WilliamsMarkus AckermannA. SchukraftK. LaihemS. W. BarwickChristopher WiebuschA. SilvestriAnna FranckowiakN. PotthoffDirk RyckboschG. WikströmT. GrieselKara HoffmanY. SestayoO. FadiranG. KohnenK. MeagherL. GerhardtL. GerhardtWolfgang RhodeO. TarasovaChristian SpieringS. KnopsJustin VandenbrouckeD. R. NygrenD. R. NygrenR. W. EllsworthJ. W. NamJ. A. GoodmanS. OdrowskiMarek KowalskiR. GozziniD. BrederReina H. MaruyamaA. TepePeter MészárosTimo KargC. RoucelleT. StraszheimS. KlepserI. TaboadaH. LandsmanM. KrasbergRasha AbbasiM. OlivoP. O. HulthJ. EischG. De Vries-uiterweerdS. YoshidaD. RutledgeB. SemburgC. TerranovaH. LeichJ. DreyerY. AbdouH. WissingH. WissingK. RawlinsM. V. D'agostinoS. SchlenstedtJames MadsenPh. HerquetKonstancja SataleckaKael HansonTeresa MontaruliTeresa MontaruliPaolo DesiatiC. T. DayR. EhrlichA. OlivasE. A. StrahlerHermann KolanoskiJ. P. RodriguesT. StezelbergerS. GrullonS. PankninFabian KislatM. BakerS. HussainT. BurgessK. HoshinaGlenn Spiczak

subject

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsOscillationsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaConfidence-IntervalsGravityFOS: Physical sciencesGeneratorLorentz covariance01 natural sciences7. Clean energyHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentScatteringHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)SensitivityQuantum Decoherence0103 physical sciencesddc:530Muon neutrino010306 general physicsNeutrino oscillationTelescopeAstroparticle physicsPhysicsHigh Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologySolar neutrino problemNeutrino detector13. Climate actionMeasurements of neutrino speedHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoAstrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaSmall SignalsLorentz Invariance Violation

description

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 (VLI) or quantum decoherence (QD). 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 VLI and QD 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.

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2009-02-04
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/154534