Speakers
Mr
Lukas Schulte
(Universität Bonn)Dr
Sebastian Böser
(Universität Bonn)
Description
The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is planned as an infill to the IceCube array at the geographic South Pole. Every year,
PINGU will record several ten thousands of atmospheric neutrinos with
energies above 3 GeV. With these unprecendented statistics, PINGU will
have sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy (NMH).
To calculate the physics potential of PINGU, we have set up an effective
detector simulation using parametrizations of the detector response.
A multitude of systematic parameters is incorporated in the simulation.
We predict a median NMH significance of 3 sigma after three years of
lifetime including systematics. Using our toolbox, we (can also) add
constraints from other experiments and thus explore a variety of scenarios. Expected precisions for other measurements, such as the atmospheric mixing parameters, and the impact of systematics are evaluated as well.
Primary author
Mr
Lukas Schulte
(Universität Bonn)
Co-authors
Prof.
Marek Kowalski
(Universität Bonn)
Dr
Sebastian Böser
(Universität Bonn)