%0 Journal Article
%T Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector
%A KM3NeT Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al
%A Barrios-Marti, J.
%A Calvo, D.
%A Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
%A Illuminati, G.
%A Lotze, M.
%A Olcina, I.
%A Real, D.
%A Sanchez Garcia, A.
%A Tönnis, C.
%A Zornoza, J. D.
%A Zuñiga, J.
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%D 2017
%V 05
%N 5
%I Springer
%@ 1029-8479
%G English
%F KM3NeTCollaborationAdrian-Martinez_etal2017
%O WOS:000401072300004
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3130), last updated on Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:10:53 +0000
%X Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursued by the future KM3NeT/ORCA water Cherenkov detector in the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, the processes that limit the obtainable resolution in both energy and direction in charged-current neutrino events in the ORCA detector are investigated. These processes include the composition of the hadronic fragmentation products, the subsequent particle propagation and the photon-sampling fraction of the detector. GEANT simulations of neutrino interactions in seawater produced by GENIE are used to study the effects in the 1-20 GeV range. It is found that fluctuations in the hadronic cascade in conjunction with the variation of the inelasticity y are most detrimental to the resolutions. The effect of limited photon sampling in the detector is of significantly less importance. These results will therefore also be applicable to similar detectors/media, such as those in ice.
%K Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)
%R 10.1007/JHEP05(2017)008
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05621
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)008
%P 008-39pp