Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: KM3NeT/ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino telescope currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, aimed at measuring atmospheric neutrino oscillations and determining the neutrino mass ordering. The detector consists of a three-dimensional array of detection units equipped with 18 digital optical modules, each of which houses 31 photomultiplier tubes. The Cherenkov light induced by charged particles produced in neutrino interactions in the $1-100$ GeV range is used to reconstruct the parent neutrino’s direction and energy, allowing for constraints on the oscillation parameters $\Delta m^{2}_{31}$ and $\theta_{23}$. This work presents the first Bayesian neutrino oscillation analysis performed with KM3NeT, using 715 kton-years of exposure from the ORCA detector. An adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is employed to build a Markov Chain Monte Carlo, which samples the posterior probability density in the multidimensional space spanned by oscillation and nuisance parameters. The credible region at 90\% Confidence Level for the oscillation parameters, $\Delta m^{2}_{31} \in [-2.62,-1.80]\times 10^{-3} \ \mathrm{eV^2}$ assuming Inverted Ordering ( $\Delta m^{2}_{31} \in [1.92,2.72]\times 10^{-3} \ \mathrm{eV^2}$ for Normal Ordering) and $\sin^2 \theta_{23} \in [0.38,0.62]$, are inferred from the marginal posterior PDF.
DOI: 10.22323/1.501.1092
Author: Alfonso Lazo Pedrajas
Institutions: Universitat de València, Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Language: English
Topic: Neutrino Physics Research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414482167
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