Conveners
Day 5 Afternoon
- Patrick de Perio (TRIUMF)
- Nick Prouse (TRIUMF)
The field of machine learning has become increasingly important over the last years and now constitutes a vital contribution to the physics output of experiments such as IceCube. IceCube is a neutrino telescope situated at the geographic South Pole, instrumenting a cubic kilometer of glacial ice. Atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos are indirectly measured via Cherenkov radiation of charged...
Tau appearance from neutrino oscillations of atmospheric muon neutrinos is studied by the DeepCore subarray, the densely-instrumented region of IceCube, an ice-Cherenkov neutrino detector 1.5 kilometers below the surface of the South Pole. These studies probe the unitarity of the PMNS matrix. Distinguishable event signatures in this region include track-like and shower-like events. Because the...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, instruments a cubic kilometer of ice with 5160 optical modules that are used to detect astrophysical and atmospheric neutrinos. Near the lowest energies that IceCube can resolve, at the 10s of GeV-scale, these events leave a Cherenkov signature that only a few optical modules will record. Thus, these events are difficult to...
