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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 77: Neutrinoastronomie I

T 77.8: Talk

Monday, March 3, 2008, 18:35–18:50, KGI-HS 1221

The lower side of atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube — •Olaf Schulz, Andreas Groß, Elisa Resconi, and Yolanda Sestayo for the IceCube collaboration — Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg

Atmospheric neutrinos are the ultimate source of background for a neutrino telescope like IceCube. With the use of AMANDA as nested array or the future IceCube Deep Core, IceCube will be sensitive down to an energy of 10 GeV. A precise measurements of the lowest part of the atmospheric neutrino spectrum will open the way to measure neutrino oscillations in an energy range complementary to SuperKamiokande as well as to the study of the prompt component. Preliminary results will be reported in this talk together with a first study of correlations between down-wards atmospheric muons and neutrinos.