Title
Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II
Date Issued
01 May 2009
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abbasi R.
Abdou Y.
Ackermann M.
Adams J.
Ahlers M.
Andeen K.
Auffenberg J.
Bai X.
Baker M.
Barwick S.W.
Bay R.
Beattie K.
Bechet S.
Becker J.K.
Becker K.H.
Benabderrahmane M.L.
Berdermann J.
Berghaus P.
Berley D.
Bernardini E.
Bertrand D.
Besson D.Z.
Bissok M.
Blaufuss E.
Boersma D.J.
Bohm C.
Bolmont J.
Böser S.
Botner O.
Bradley L.
Braun J.
Breder D.
Burgess T.
Castermans T.
Chirkin D.
Christy B.
Clem J.
Cohen S.
Cowen D.F.
D'Agostino M.V.
Danninger M.
Day C.T.
De Clercq C.
Demirörs L.
Depaepe O.
Descamps F.
Desiati P.
De Vries-Uiterweerd G.
Deyoung T.
Diaz-Velez J.C.
Dreyer J.
Dumm J.P.
Duvoort M.R.
Edwards W.R.
Ehrlich R.
Eisch J.
Ellsworth R.W.
Engdegård O.
Euler S.
Evenson P.A.
Fadiran O.
Fazely A.R.
Feusels T.
Filimonov K.
Finley C.
Foerster M.M.
Fox B.D.
Franckowiak A.
Franke R.
Gaisser T.K.
Gallagher J.
Ganugapati R.
Gerhardt L.
Gladstone L.
Goldschmidt A.
Goodman J.A.
Gozzini R.
Grant D.
Griesel T.
Groß A.
Grullon S.
Gunasingha R.M.
Gurtner M.
Ha C.
Hallgren A.
Halzen F.
Han K.
Hanson K.
Hasegawa Y.
Heise J.
Helbing K.
Herquet P.
Hickford S.
Hill G.C.
Hoffman K.D.
Hoshina K.
Hubert D.
Huelsnitz W.
Hülß J.P.
RWTH Aachen University
Abstract
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 100GeV to 10TeV 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 or quantum decoherence. 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 violation of Lorentz invariance and quantum decoherence 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 100GeV. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
Volume
79
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-67649438962
Source
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
ISSN of the container
15502368
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