Atmospheric neutrinos in ice and measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters

Abstract

The main goal of the IceCube Deep Core Array is to search for neutrinos of astrophysical origins. Atmospheric neutrinos are commonly considered as a background for these searches. We show that the very high statistics atmospheric neutrino data can be used to obtain precise measurements of the main oscillation parameters.

Comments: expanded discussion of systematic uncertainties, 8 pages, 4 figures