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ID: 545116.0, MPI für Physik / MPI für Physik
Prospects of accelerator and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments for the coming ten years
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Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD):2004
Title of Journal:Physical Review D
Journal Abbrev.:Phys.Rev.D
Issue / Number:70
Start Page:073014
Audience:Not Specified
Intended Educational Use:No
Abstract / Description: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 $\theta_{13}$. 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 $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m^2_{31}$ by these experiments, we investigate the potential to determine $\theta_{13}$ within the next ten years in detail. Furthermore, we show that under optimistic assumptions and for $\theta_{13}$ 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.
Classification / Thesaurus:Theoretical Physics
Comment of the Author/Creator:37 pages, 13 figures, high resolution figures are available at href{http://www.ph.tum.de/~wwinter/figs0403068.html}{this http URL}
External Publication Status:published
Document Type:Article
Communicated by:N.N.
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