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India-based neutrino observatory; iron calorimeter; neutrino oscillations.

A magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based neutrino observatory (INO) is used to study neutrino oscillation sensitivity using atmospheric muon neutrino source. The ICAL detector will be able to detect muon tracks and hadron showers produced by neutrino interactions with the iron target. We have performed precision measurement analysis for the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters with the muon neutrino events, generated by Monte Carlo NUANCE event generator. A marginalized 𝜒² analysis based on reconstructed neutrino energy and muon zenith angle binning scheme has been performed to determine the sensitivity for the atmospheric neutrino mixing parameters, ${\rm sin}^{2} \theta_{23}$ and $|\Delta m^{2}_{23}|$.

Daljeet Kaur¹ Md Naimuddin¹ Sanjeev Kumar Verma¹

1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India

Published

February 2016

Early published

13 January 2016