Description:
Neutrinos are the most enigmatic elementary particles. Their properties had yet been unknown 20 years ago and even today neutrinos keep plenty of secrets. To reveal some of them, a new detector is being built offshore the coast of Toulon - KM3Net/ORCA. In 2017 the first lines of the ORCA detector will be deployed. The final goal of the ORCA detector is the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. This will be possible with the complete detector comprising more than 100 detection lines.
However, with the first ~10 detection lines - Phase I of the project, which should becomes operational soon, a measurement of atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range 3-100 GeV can already be achieved.
The candidate will participate in the data taking and data quality program, contribute to the calibration of detector elements and the development of analysis tools. The final goal of this work is the determination of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters |\Delta m_{32}|^2 and sin^2\theta_{23}, which might be possible with a comparable or better precision compared with earlier measurements by neutrinos telescopes such as IceCube/DeepCore and Antares.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07459
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