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Identifying the Neutrino mass Ordering with INO and NOvA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-04 v3

Abstract

The relatively large value of θ13\theta_{13} established recently by the Daya Bay reactor experiment opens the possibility to determine the neutrino mass ordering with experiments currently under construction. We investigate synergies between the NOvA long-baseline accelerator experiment with atmospheric neutrino data from the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). We identify the requirements on energy and direction reconstruction and detector mass for INO necessary for a significant sensitivity. If neutrino energy and direction reconstruction at the level of 10% and 10 degree can be achieved by INO a determination of the neutrino mass ordering seems possible around 2020.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3388,
  title  = {Identifying the Neutrino mass Ordering with INO and NOvA},
  author = {Mattias Blennow and Thomas Schwetz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3388},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 8 figures, minor improvements and clarifications, new panel in fig. 7, version to appear in JHEP, typo in eq. 4 corrected