PT Journal
AU Giordano, G
   Mena, O
   Mocioiu, I
TI Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2010
BP 113008
EP 5pp
VL 81
IS 11
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.113008
LA English
AB The main goal of the IceCube Deep Core Array is to search for neutrinos of astrophysical origins. Atmospheric neutrinos are commonly considered as a background for these searches. We show here that cascade measurements in the Ice Cube Deep Core Array can provide strong evidence for tau neutrino appearance in atmospheric neutrino oscillations. Controlling systematic uncertainties will be the limiting factor in the analysis. A careful study of these tau neutrinos is crucial, since they constitute an irreducible background for astrophysical neutrino detection.
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