# KM3NeT-ORCA: Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss

Abstract : KM3NeT, currently under construction in the abysses of the Mediterranean Sea, is a distributed research infrastructure that will host a km3-scale neutrino telescope (ARCA) for high-energy neutrino astronomy, and a megaton scale detector (ORCA) for neutrino oscillation studies of atmospheric neutrinos. ORCA is optimised for a measurement of the mass hierarchy, providing a sensitivity of 3{\sigma} after 3-4 years. It will also measure the atmospheric mixing parameters $\Delta m_{32}^2$ and $\theta_{23}$ with a precision comparable to the NOvA and T2K experiments using both the muon neutrino disappearance and tau neutrino appearance channels. It will provide a measurement of the tau neutrino appearance rate with better than 10% precision, a crucial ingredient for tests of unitarity. It will probe the octant of the mixing angle $\theta_{23}$ via matter resonance effects on neutrinos and antineutrinos crossing the core and mantle, which are largely independent on the CP phase. The observation of neutrino oscillations over a wide range of baselines and energies will provide broad sensitivity to new physics such as non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) and sterile neutrinos.
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Communication dans un congrès
XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016), Jul 2016, Londre, United Kingdom
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• HAL Id : in2p3-01427749, version 1
• ARXIV : 1701.01382

### Citation

Paschal Coyle. KM3NeT-ORCA: Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss. XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016), Jul 2016, Londre, United Kingdom. 〈in2p3-01427749〉

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