Measurement of the atmospheric νμ flux with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
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| Publication date | 08-2025 |
| Journal | European Physical Journal C |
| Article number | 871 |
| Volume | Issue number | 85 | 8 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
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| Abstract |
A measurement of the atmospheric νμ +¯νμ flux with energies between 1 and 100 GeV is presented. The measurement has been erformed using data taken with the first six detection units of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, referred to as ORCA6. The data were ollected between January 2020 and November 2021 and correspond to 510 days of livetime, with a total exposure of 433 kton·years. sing machine learning classification, 3894 neutrino candidate events have been selected with an atmospheric muon contamination of less than 1%. The atmospheric νμ+¯νμ energy spectrum is derived using an unfolding procedure and the impact of systematic uncertainties is estimated. The atmospheric νμ+¯νμ flux measured using the ORCA6 configuration is in agreement with the values measured by other experiments.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14513-2 |
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