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Determination of the $\theta_{23}$ octant in LBNO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-14 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

According to the recent results of the neutrino oscillation experiment MINOS, the neutrino mixing angle θ23\theta_{23} may not be maximal (4545^{\circ}). Two nearly degenerate solutions are possible, one in the lower octant (LO) where θ23<45\theta_{23}<45^{\circ}, and one in the higher octant (HO) where θ23>45\theta_{23}>45^{\circ}. Long baseline experiments measuring the νμνe\nu_{\mu}\rightarrow\nu_{e} are capable of resolving this degeneracy. In this work we study the potential of the planned European LBNO experiment to distinguish between the LO and HO solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2829,
  title  = {Determination of the $\theta_{23}$ octant in LBNO},
  author = {C. R. Das and Jukka Maalampi and Joao Pulido and Sampsa Vihonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2829},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 8 figures in two sets