2017Proceedings of 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(ICHEP2016)Open access

Atmospheric Neutrino Results from Super-Kamiokande

Z. Li

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Recent results of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino analysis are presented.Super-Kamiokande has measured the flux of atmospheric neutrinos with energies from 100 MeV to 10 TeV, and measured the east-west effect to 8.0 (6.0)σ for electron (muon) neutrinos.The search for tau neutrino appearance from neutrino oscillations has resulted in a 4.6σ deviation from the hypothesis of no tau neutrino appearance.Super-Kamiokande data have a weak preference for normal mass hierarchy (∆χ 2 = χ 2 NHχ 2 IH = -4.3)including the constraints from the reactor neutrino experiments, and the preference is strengthened (∆χ 2 = χ 2 NHχ 2 IH = -5.2) after including constraints from the T2K experiment.

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Recent results of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino analysis are presented.Super-Kamiokande has measured the flux of atmospheric neutrinos with energies from 100 MeV to 10 TeV, and measured the east-west effect to 8.0 (6.0)σ for electron (muon) neutrinos.The search for tau neutrino appearance from neutrino oscillations has resulted in a 4.6σ deviation from the hypothesis of no tau neutrino appearance.Super-Kamiokande data have a weak preference for normal mass hierarchy (∆χ 2 = χ 2 NHχ 2 IH = -4.3)including the constraints from the reactor neutrino experiments, and the preference is strengthened (∆χ 2 = χ 2 NHχ 2 IH = -5.2) after including constraints from the T2K experiment.

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Recent results of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino analysis are presented.Super-Kamiokande has measured the flux of atmospheric neutrinos with energies from 100 MeV to 10 TeV, and measured the east-west effect to 8.0 (6.0)σ for electron (muon) neutrinos.The search for tau neutrino appearance from neutrino oscillations has resulted in a 4.6σ deviation from the hypothesis of no tau neutrino appearance.Super-Kamiokande data have a weak preference for normal mass hierarchy (∆χ 2 = χ 2 NHχ 2 IH = -4.3)including the constraints from the reactor neutrino experiments, and the preference is strengthened (∆χ 2 = χ 2 NHχ 2 IH = -5.2) after including constraints from the T2K experiment.

Key concepts: Neutrino, Super-Kamiokande, Physics, Particle physics, Solar neutrino, Muon, Electron neutrino, Neutrino oscillation

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