Nunokawa, H. [UNESP]Peres, O. L GZukanovich Funchal, R.2014-05-272014-05-272003-06-12Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 562, n. 3-4, p. 279-290, 2003.0370-2693http://hdl.handle.net/11449/67318We show in this Letter that the observation of the angular distribution of upward-going muons and cascade events induced by atmospheric neutrinos at the TeV energy scale which can be performed by a kilometer-scale neutrino telescope, such as the IceCube detector, can be used to probe a large neutrino mass splitting, |Δm 2| ∼ (0.5-2.0) eV 2, implied by the LSND experiment and discriminate among four neutrino mass schemes. This is due to the fact that such a large mass scale can promote non-negligible v μ → v e, v τ/v μ → v e, v τ conversions at these energies by the MSW effect as well as vacuum oscillation, unlike what is expected if all the neutrino mass splittings are small. © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.279-290engatmosphereatomic particleenergymassoscillationphysicsvacuumArtigo10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00603-8WOS:000183287600019Acesso restrito2-s2.0-0037737557