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Probing new physics with atmospheric neutrinos at KM3NeT-ORCA

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, , Citation João A. B. Coelho and for the KM3NeT collaboration 2017 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 888 012115 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012115

1742-6596/888/1/012115

Abstract

We present the prospects of ORCA searches for new physics phenomena using atmospheric neutrinos. Focus is given to exploiting the impact of strong matter effects on the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos in light of expanded models, such as sterile neutrinos and non-standard interactions. In the presence of light sterile neutrinos that mix with active neutrinos, additional resonances and suppressions may occur at different energies. One may also use neutrino oscillations to probe the properties of the coherent forward scattering which may be altered by new interactions beyond the Standard Model. Preliminary studies show that ORCA would be able to probe some parameters of these models with sensitivity up to one order of magnitude better than current constraints.

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