Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

✍ Scribed by J.A. Formaggio

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 174 KB
• Volume: 827
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.05.143

✦ Synopsis

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory consists of a 1 kiloton heavy water Cherenkov detector able to detect and reconstruct high-energy muons created from cosmic ray showers and atmospheric neutrino interactions. By measuring the flux of through-going muons as a function of zenith angle, the SNO experiment can distinguish between the oscillated and un-oscillated portion of the neutrino flux. This report describes SNO's measurements of the flux of cosmic ray muons and neutrino-induced muon flux at a depth of 5890 meters water equivalent.