Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II

被引：68

作者：

Abbasi, R. ^{[22
]}

Abdou, Y. ^{[16
]}

Ackermann, M. ^{[33
]}

Adams, J. ^{[12
]}

Ahlers, M. ^{[38
]}

Andeen, K. ^{[22
]}

Auffenberg, J. ^{[32
]}

Bai, X. ^{[25
,37
]}

Baker, M. ^{[22
]}

Barwick, S. W. ^{[18
]}

Bay, R. ^{[6
]}

Alba, J. L. Bazo ^{[33
]}

Beattie, K. ^{[7
]}

Bechet, S. ^{[9
]}

Becker, J. K. ^{[15
]}

Becker, K. -H. ^{[32
]}

Benabderrahmane, M. L. ^{[33
]}

Berdermann, J. ^{[33
]}

Berghaus, P. ^{[22
]}

Berley, D. ^{[13
]}

Bernardini, E. ^{[33
]}

Bertrand, D. ^{[9
]}

Besson, D. Z. ^{[20
]}

Bissok, M. ^{[34
]}

Blaufuss, E. ^{[13
]}

Boersma, D. J. ^{[22
]}

Bohm, C. ^{[27
]}

Bolmont, J. ^{[33
]}

Boeser, S. ^{[33
]}

Botner, O. ^{[30
]}

Bradley, L. ^{[29
]}

Braun, J. ^{[22
]}

Breder, D. ^{[32
]}

Burgess, T. ^{[27
]}

Castermans, T. ^{[24
]}

Chirkin, D. ^{[22
]}

Christy, B. ^{[13
]}

Clem, J. ^{[25
,37
]}

Cohen, S. ^{[25
,37
]}

Cowen, D. F. ^{[28
,29
]}

D'Agostino, M. V. ^{[6
]}

Danninger, M. ^{[12
]}

Day, C. T. ^{[7
]}

De Clercq, C. ^{[10
]}

Demiroers, L. ^{[19
]}

Depaepe, O. ^{[10
]}

Descamps, F. ^{[16
]}

Desiati, P. ^{[22
]}

de Vries-Uiterweerd, G. ^{[16
]}

DeYoung, T. ^{[29
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA

[2] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA

[3] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA

[4] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[5] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA

[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[7] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[8] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

[9] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Sci Fac CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[10] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[11] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan

[12] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch 1, New Zealand

[13] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[14] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[15] TU Dortmund Univ, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

[16] Univ Ghent, Dept Subatom & Radiat Phys, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[17] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany

[18] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[19] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, High Energy Phys Lab, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[20] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA

[21] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[22] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[23] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

[24] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

[25] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[26] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA

[27] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[28] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[29] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[30] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden

[31] Utrecht Univ SRON, Dept Phys & Astron, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands

[32] Univ Gesamthsch Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

[33] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

[34] Univ Aachen, Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[35] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[36] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[37] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[38] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 10期

关键词：

LORENTZ INVARIANCE VIOLATION; QUANTUM DECOHERENCE; CONFIDENCE-INTERVALS; OSCILLATIONS; SENSITIVITY; SCATTERING; SYMMETRY; SPECTRA; TESTS; LIGHT;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.102005

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

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 100 GeV to 10 TeV 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 100 GeV.

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