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A Review of Long-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2013-05-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A review of accelerator long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments is provided, including all experiments performed to date and the projected sensitivity of those currently in progress. Accelerator experiments have played a crucial role in the confirmation of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon and in precision measurements of the parameters. With a fixed baseline and detectors providing good energy resolution, precise measurements of the ratio of distance/energy (L/E) on the scale of individual events have been made and the expected oscillatory pattern resolved. Evidence for electron neutrino appearance has recently been obtained, opening a door for determining the CP violating phase as well as resolving the mass hierarchy and the octant of theta23: some of the last unknown parameters of the standard model extended to include neutrino mass.

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@article{arxiv.1210.1778,
  title  = {A Review of Long-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments},
  author = {G. J. Feldman and J. Hartnell and T. Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1778},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

43 pages, 36 figures. Invited review for the special issue on neutrinos of Advances in High Energy Physics