According to the recent results of the neutrino oscillation experiment MINOS, the neutrino mixing angle θ23 may not be maximal (45∘). Two nearly degenerate solutions are possible, one in the lower octant (LO) where θ23<45∘, and one in the higher octant (HO) where θ23>45∘. Long baseline experiments measuring the νμ→νe 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.
@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}
}