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Appearance and disappearance signals at a beta-Beam and a Super-Beam facility

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

In this letter we present the study of the eightfold degeneracy in the (θ13,δ)(\theta_{13},\delta) measurement including both appearance and disappearance channels. We analyse, for definiteness, the case of a standard low-γ\gamma β\beta-Beam and a 4 MWatt SPL Super-Beam facility, both aiming at a UNO-like Mton water Cerenkov detector located at the Frejus laboratory, L=130L = 130 km. In the β\beta-Beam case, the \nue disappearance channel does not improve the (θ13,δ)(\theta_{13},\delta) measurement when a realistic (i.e. \ge 2%) systematic error is included. In the Super-Beam case, the \numu disappearance channel could, instead, be quite useful in reducing the impact of the eightfold degeneracy in the (θ13,δ)(\theta_{13},\delta) measurement, especially once the error on the atmospheric mass difference is fully taken into account in the fit.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411402,
  title  = {Appearance and disappearance signals at a beta-Beam and a Super-Beam facility},
  author = {A. Donini and E. Fernandez-Martinez and S. Rigolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411402},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages, 14 eps figures