@misc{10481/95945,
year = {2017},
month = {5},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/95945},
abstract = {Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multi-megaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursued by the future KM3NeT/ORCA water Cherenkov detector in the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, the processes that limit the obtainable resolution in both energy and direction in charged-current neutrino events in the ORCA detector are investigated. These processes include the composition of the hadronic fragmentation products, the subsequent particle propagation and the photon-sampling fraction of the detector. GEANT simulations of neutrino interactions in seawater produced by GENIE are used to study the effects in the 1-20 GeV range. It is found that fluctuations in the hadronic cascade in conjunction with the variation of the inelasticity y are most detrimental to the resolutions. The effect of limited photon sampling in the detector is of significantly less importance. These results will therefore also be applicable to similar detectors/media, such as those in ice.},
organization = {Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie
Curie Program)},
organization = {Plan Estatal de Investigación (refs. FPA2015-65150-C3-1-P, -2-P and
-3-P, (MINECO/FEDER))},
organization = {Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence and MultiDark Consolider
(MINECO)},
organization = {Prometeo and Grisolía programs (Generalitat Valenciana)},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
keywords = {Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)},
title = {Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP05(2017)008},
author = {Adrián Martínez, S. and Díaz García, Antonio Francisco and Navas Concha, Sergio and KM3NeT Collaboration, /},
}