Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters Using Convolutional Neural Networks with 9.3 Years of Data in IceCube DeepCore
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, cilt.134, sa.9, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 134 Sayı: 9
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.091801
- Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, INSPEC, MathSciNet, zbMATH, DIALNET, Nature Index
- Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The DeepCore subdetector of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory provides access to neutrinos with energies above approximately 5 GeV. Data taken between 2012 and 2021 (3387 days) are utilized for an atmospheric nu(mu) disappearance analysis that studied 150 257 neutrino-candidate events with reconstructed energies between 5 and 100 GeV. An advanced reconstruction based on a convolutional neural network is applied, providing increased signal efficiency and background suppression, resulting in a measurement with both significantly increased statistics compared to previous DeepCore oscillation results and high neutrino purity. For the normal neutrino mass ordering, the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and their 1 sigma errors are measured to be Delta m(32)(2) = 2.40(-0.04)(+0.05) x 10(-3) eV(2) and sin(2)theta(23) = 0.54(-0.03)(+0.04). The results are the most precise to date using atmospheric neutrinos, and are compatible with measurements from other neutrino detectors including long-baseline accelerator experiments.