Friday, April 20, 2012

1204.4217 (Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla et al.)

Probing the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Super-Kamiokande    [PDF]

Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Pilar Hernandez
We show that a superbeam with an average neutrino energy of ~ 5 GeV, such as those being proposed at CERN, if pointing to Super-Kamiokande (L \simeq 8770 km), could reveal the neutrino mass hierarchy at 5 sigma in less than two years irrespective of the true hierarchy and CP phase. The measurement relies on the near resonant matter effect in the numu \rightarrow nue oscillation channel, and can be done counting the total number of appearance events with just a neutrino beam.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4217

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