标题： 高能和高统计冰立方大气中微子数据的物理潜力 显示英文标题

标题： Physics Reach of High-Energy and High-Statistics IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data

摘要： 本文研究了IceCube中微子探测器的物理潜力，当它收集到大约一百万个能量在0.1 \sim 10^4 TeV范围内的大气中微子数据集时。 本文分为三个部分。 我们首先演示了如何使用相对简单的解析方法来模拟探测器性能。 由于中微子具有高能量，它们的振荡、在地球中的传播以及由\tau 衰变引起的再生必须以一种一致的方式处理。 我们建立了相应的形式体系并讨论了其影响。 在最后一部分，我们应用所开发的方法评估IceCube研究中微子振荡之外的新物理的潜力。 不出所料，由于能量和统计数据的增加，现有的等效原理和洛伦兹不变性破坏的界限可以提高两个数量级以上。 所开发的方法可以轻松应用于与中微子相关的其他非传统物理学。 显示英文摘要

摘要： This paper investigates the physics reach of the IceCube neutrino detector when it will have collected a data set of order one million atmospheric neutrinos with energies in the 0.1 \sim 10^4 TeV range. The paper consists of three parts. We first demonstrate how to simulate the detector performance using relatively simple analytic methods. Because of the high energies of the neutrinos, their oscillations, propagation in the Earth and regeneration due to \tau decay must be treated in a coherent way. We set up the formalism to do this and discuss the implications. In a final section we apply the methods developed to evaluate the potential of IceCube to study new physics beyond neutrino oscillations. Not surprisingly, because of the increased energy and statistics over present experiments, existing bounds on violations of the equivalence principle and of Lorentz invariance can be improved by over two orders of magnitude. The methods developed can be readily applied to other non-conventional physics associated with neutrinos.