TY  - JOUR
AU  - Giordano, G.
AU  - Mena, O.
AU  - Mocioiu, I.
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010//
TI  - Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice
T2  - Phys. Rev. D
JO  - Physical Review D
SP  - 113008
EP  - 5pp
VL  - 81
IS  - 11
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
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.
SN  - 1550-7998
UR  - http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1004.3519
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.113008
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.113008
LA  - English
N1  - ISI:000279159600001
ID  - Giordano_etal2010
ER  -