Recoilless Resonant Absorption of Monochromatic Neutrino Beam for Measuring Delta m^2_{31} and theta_{13}

Abstract

We discuss, in the context of precision measurement of Delta m^2_{31} and theta_{13}, physics capabilities enabled by the recoilless resonant absorption of monochromatic antineutrino beam enhanced by the M\"ossbauer effect recently proposed by Raghavan. Under the assumption of small relative systematic error of a few tenth of percent level between measurement at different detector locations, we give analytical and numerical estimates of the sensitivities to Delta m^2_{31} and sin^2 2theta_{13}. The accuracies of determination of them are enormous; The fractional uncertainty in Delta m^2_{31} achievable by 10 point measurement is 0.6% (2.4%) for sin^2 2theta_{13} = 0.05, and the uncertainty of sin^2 2theta_{13} is 0.002 (0.008) both at 1 sigma CL with the optimistic (pessimistic) assumption of systematic error of 0.2% (1%). The former opens a new possibility of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy by comparing the measured value of Delta m^2_{31} with the one by accelerator experiments, while the latter will help resolving the theta_{23} octant degeneracy.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in New Journal of Physic