Atmospheric Neutrinos: Status and Prospects

Abstract

We present an overview of the current status of neutrino oscillation studies at atmospheric neutrino experiments. While the current data gives some tentalising hints regarding the neutrino mass hierarchy, octant of ${\theta }_{23}$ and ${\delta }_{CP}$, the hints are not statistically significant. We summarise the sensitivity to these sub-dominant three-generation effects from the next-generation proposed atmospheric neutrino experiments. We next present the prospects of new physics searches such as non-standard interactions, sterile neutrinos and CPT violation studies at these experiments.

Comments: To appear in the Special Issue on neutrino oscillations of Nuclear Physics B