Phys. Rev. D 79, 102005 (2009) [15 pages]
Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II
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1III Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
4CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA
5School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
6Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
7Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
8Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
9Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
10Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
11Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
12Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
13Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
14Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
15Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
16Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
17Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
18Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany
19Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
20Laboratory for High Energy Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
21Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
22Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
23Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
24Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
25University of Mons-Hainaut, 7000 Mons, Belgium
26Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
27Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK
28Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA
29Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
30Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
31Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
32Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
33Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University/SRON, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
34Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
35DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany
Received 5 February 2009; published 29 May 2009
The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be used to search for various phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity in the neutrino sector, such as violation of Lorentz invariance or quantum decoherence. Analyzing a set of 5511 candidate neutrino events collected during 1387 days of livetime from 2000 to 2006, we find no evidence for such effects and set upper limits on violation of Lorentz invariance and quantum decoherence parameters using a maximum likelihood method. Given the absence of evidence for new flavor-changing physics, we use the same methodology to determine the conventional atmospheric muon neutrino flux above 100 GeV.
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