661 research outputs found
Reactor Neutrino Experiments Compared to Superbeams
We present a detailed quantitative discussion of the measurement of the
leptonic mixing angle with a future reactor neutrino
oscillation experiment consisting of a near and far detector. We perform a
thorough analysis of the impact of various systematical errors and compare the
resulting physics potential to the one of planned first-generation superbeam
experiments. Furthermore, we investigate the complementarity of both types of
experiments. We find that, under realistic assumptions, a determination of
down to is possible with reactor experiments.
They are thus highly competitive to first-generation superbeams and may be able
to test on shorter timescales. In addition, we find that
the combination of a KamLAND-size reactor experiment with one or two superbeams
could substantially improve the ability to access the neutrino mass hierarchy
or the leptonic CP phase.Comment: Typo in Eq. (9) corrected. 36 pages, 12 figure
Understanding CP phase-dependent measurements at neutrino superbeams in terms of bi-rate graphs
We discuss the impact of the true value of the CP phase on the mass
hierarchy, CP violation, and CP precision measurements at neutrino superbeams
and related experiments. We we use a complete statistical experiment simulation
including spectral information, systematics, correlations, and degeneracies to
produce the results. However, since it is very complicated to understand the
results in terms of a complete experiment simulation, we show the corresponding
bi-rate graphs as useful tools to investigate the CP phase-dependencies
qualitatively. Unlike bi-probability graphs, which are based upon oscillation
probabilities, bi-rate graphs use the total event rates of two measurements
simultaneously as a function of the CP phase. Since they allow error bars for
direct quantitative estimates, they can be used for a direct comparison with a
complete statistical experiment simulation. We find that one can describe the
CP phase dependencies of the mentioned measurements at neutrino superbeam
setups, as well as one can understand the role of the -degeneracy. As one of the most interesting results, we discuss the
dependence of the CP precision measurement as a function of the CP phase
itself, which leads to ``CP patterns''. It turns out that this dependence is
rather strong, which means that one has to be careful when one is comparing the
CP precisions of different experiments.Comment: Major revisions: Scope reduced and discussions simplified. Summary
and conclusions unchanged. 14 pages, 4 figures. Final version to appear in
PR
Neutrino Physics, Superbeams, and the Neutrino Factory
We summarize what has been learned about the neutrino mass spectrum and
neutrino mixing, identify interesting open questions that can be answered by
accelerator neutrino facilities of the future, and discuss the importance and
physics of answering them.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on
Neutrino Factories (Nu Fact 02). LaTeX, 10 pages, 1 eps figur
Comparison of LMA and LOW Solar Solution Predictions in an SO(10) GUT Model
Within the framework of an SO(10) GUT model that can accommodate both the LMA
and LOW solar neutrino mixing solutions by appropriate choice of the
right-handed Majorana matrix elements, we present explicit predictions for the
neutrino oscillation parameters \Delta m^2_{21}, \sin^2 2\theta_{12}, \sin^2
2\theta_{23}, \sin^2 2\theta_{13}, and \delta_{CP}. Given the observed near
maximality of the atmospheric mixing, the model favors the LMA solution and
predicts that \delta_{CP} is small. The suitability of Neutrino Superbeams and
Neutrino Factories for precision tests of the two model versions is discussed.Comment: Title, abstract and emphasis changed, references adde
Lepton Flavor Violating Era of Neutrino Physics
The physics agenda for future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments
is outlined and the prospects for accomplishing those goals at future neutrino
facilities are considered. Neutrino factories can deliver better reach in the
mixing and mass-squared parameters but conventional super-beams with large
water or liquid argon detectors can probe regions of the parameter space that
could prove to be interesting.Comment: 12 pages, Latex, uses sprocl.sty and epsf.sty. 5 postscript figures.
Talk presented at Joint U.S./Japan Workshop On New Initiatives In Lepton
Flavor Violation and Neutrino Oscillation With High Intense Muon and Neutrino
Sources, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 200
Prospects of accelerator and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments for the coming ten years
We analyze the physics potential of long baseline neutrino oscillation
experiments planned for the coming ten years, where the main focus is the
sensitivity limit to the small mixing angle . The discussed
experiments include the conventional beam experiments MINOS, ICARUS, and OPERA,
which are under construction, the planned superbeam experiments J-PARC to
Super-Kamiokande and NuMI off-axis, as well as new reactor experiments with
near and far detectors, represented by the Double-Chooz project. We perform a
complete numerical simulation including systematics, correlations, and
degeneracies on an equal footing for all experiments using the GLoBES software.
After discussing the improvement of our knowledge on the atmospheric parameters
and by these experiments, we investigate the
potential to determine within the next ten years in detail.
Furthermore, we show that under optimistic assumptions and for
close to the current bound, even the next generation of experiments might
provide some information on the Dirac CP phase and the type of the neutrino
mass hierarchy.Comment: 38 pages, 13 figures, Eqs. (1) and (5) corrected, small corrections
in Figs. 8, 9, and Tab. 4, discussion improved, ref. added, version to appear
in PRD, high resolution figures are available at
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~winter/figs0403068.htm
How astrophysical neutrino sources could be used for early measurements of neutrino mass hierarchy and leptonic CP phase
We discuss the possible impact of astrophysical neutrino flux measurements at
neutrino telescopes on the neutrino oscillation program of reactor experiments
and neutrino beams. We consider neutrino fluxes from neutron sources, muon
damped sources, and pion sources, where we parameterize the input from these
sources in terms of the flux ratio which can be
extracted from the muon track to shower ratio in a neutrino telescope. While it
is difficult to obtain any information from this ratio alone, we demonstrate
that the dependence on the oscillation parameters is very complementary to the
one of reactor experiments and neutrino beams. We find that for large values of
, a measurement of R with a precision of about 20% or
better may not only improve the measurement of the leptonic CP phase, but also
help the determination of the mass hierarchy. In some cases, early information
on may even be obtained from Double Chooz and an astrophysical
flux alone without the help of superbeams. For small values of , we find that using the information from an astrophysical neutrino
flux could eliminate the octant degeneracy better than reactor experiments and
beams alone. Finally, we demonstrate that implementing an additional observable
based on the electromagnetic to hadronic shower ratio at a neutrino telescope
(such as at higher energies) could be especially beneficial for pion beam
sources.Comment: Minor changes and additions, final version to appear in PRD. 32
pages, 15 figure
Summary of Working Group 1: Theory Part
I will summarize theoretical issues in Working Group 1 at Nufact'01. Although
there may not be complete agreement yet on the exact optimum baseline and
the muon energy for measurements of the CP phase at a neutrino factory,
all the works done so far indicate that the optimum set (, ) tends to
be smaller than (3000km, 50GeV) if the uncertainty of the matter effect is
assumed to be larger than 5% or the background fraction is much larger
than .Comment: 9 pages, uses elsart.cls. Summary talk of theoretical part of WG1 at
3rd International Workshop on Neutrino Factory based on Muon Storage Rings
(NuFACT'01), Tsukuba, Japan, 24-30 May 2001 . 1 references added slight
modification adde
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