TY  - JOUR
AU  - KM3NeT Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al
AU  - Barrios-Marti, J.
AU  - Calvo, D.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Illuminati, G.
AU  - Lotze, M.
AU  - Olcina, I.
AU  - Real, D.
AU  - Sanchez Garcia, A.
AU  - Tönnis, C.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 008
EP  - 39pp
VL  - 05
IS  - 5
PB  - Springer
KW  - Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05621
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)008
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP05(2017)008
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000401072300004
ID  - KM3NeTCollaborationAdrian-Martinez_etal2017
ER  -