Very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments for precise measurements of mixing parameters and CP violating effects

M. V. Diwan, D. Beavis, Mu Chun Chen, J. Gallardo, R. L. Hahn, S. Kahn, H. Kirk, W. Marciano, W. Morse, Z. Parsa, N. Samios, Y. Semertzidis, B. Viren, W. Weng, P. Yamin, M. Yeh, W. Frati, K. Lande, A. K. Mann, R. Van BergP. Wildenhain, J. R. Klein, I. Mocioiu, R. Shrock, K. T. McDonald

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Abstract

We analyze the prospects of a feasible, Brookhaven National Laboratory based, very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of a conventional horn produced low energy wideband beam and a detector of 500 kton fiducial mass with modest requirements on event recognition and resolution. Such an experiment is intended primarily to determine [Formula Presented] violating effects in the neutrino sector for 3-generation mixing. We analyze the sensitivity of such an experiment. We conclude that this experiment will allow determination of the [Formula Presented] phase [Formula Presented] and the currently unknown mixing parameter [Formula Presented] if [Formula Presented] a value [Formula Presented] times lower than the present experimental upper limit. In addition to [Formula Presented] and [Formula Presented] the experiment has great potential for precise measurements of most other parameters in the neutrino mixing matrix including [Formula Presented] [Formula Presented] [Formula Presented] and the mass ordering of neutrinos through the observation of the matter effect in the [Formula Presented] appearance channel.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume68
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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