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Neutrino Oscillations Working Group Parallel Session Summary. Kurt Woschnagg* UC Berkeley *WG co-lead with Ty DeYoung. IceCube collaboration meeting, Munich, October 12, 2013. Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations. Search for muon neutrino disappearance in DeepCore data .
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Neutrino Oscillations Working GroupParallel Session Summary Kurt Woschnagg* UC Berkeley *WG co-lead with Ty DeYoung IceCube collaboration meeting, Munich, October 12, 2013
Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations Search for muon neutrino disappearance in DeepCore data
Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations Theoretical oscillogram Observables Likelihood scan in parameter space Search for muon neutrino disappearance in DeepCore data
IceCube has entered the oscillation field First generation analysis (A. Gross) Low-E and high-E samples Analysis on zenith angle No energy information used in fit
IC79 νμ disappearance analysis Sebastian Euler, ICRC plots
IC79 νμ disappearance analysis revisited Markus Vehring
Estimating muon background from data Anna Kriesten HESE-inspired approach: • Define veto layers • Define veto • Determine veto passing rates DC
Estimating muon background from data • Preliminary studies of charge distributions
Estimating muon background from data • Charge in layers 2 and 3 if tagged in layer 1 • Layers independent -> method should work Layer 3 Layer 2
MultiLlh: likelihood fitting with FC errors Laura Gladstone
IC86 νμ disappearance analysis Juan Pablo Yanez Results from IC86-2011
IC86 νμ disappearance analysis • Results from first year
IC86 νμ disappearance analysis • Nuisance parameters
IC86 νμ disappearance analysis Extend to two or three years of IC86
IC86 νμ disappearance analysis II Rates at L3 Matt Dunkman Containment, Noise rejection BTD Low-E L3 Rates at L5
Plan for a ντ appearance analysis João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André (‘’JP”)
Plan for a ντ appearance analysis João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André (‘’JP”)
Summary • First generation analysispublished • Second generation analyses mature: • IC79: • Being reoptimized • Better bgrestimate, from data • IC86: • First year completed • Better energy reco before adding data • Multiyear analysis • Third generation analyses: • Better tools (MultiLlh, energy reconstruction,…) • Better simulations • Higher statistics, multiyear data sets • Search for tau appearance