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Matter-Induced CPT Violation and Earth-Density Stratification Effects in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-08-01 v1

Abstract

We present a unified analysis of two matter-potential systematics in long-baseline (LBL) neutrino oscillation experiments, treating matter-induced extrinsic CPT violation and Earth density stratification as correlated systematics within a single χ2\chi^2 framework. We study their joint impact on CP-phase reconstruction and mass-ordering dependence. Matter-induced extrinsic CPT violation produces a non-zero asymmetry AμeCPT=(PμePˉμe)/(Pμe+Pˉμe)A_{\mu e}^{\rm CPT}=(P_{\mu e}-\bar P_{\mu e})/(P_{\mu e}+\bar P_{\mu e}), computed using exact three-flavour matrix exponentiation for T2K, NOν\nuA, DUNE, and Hyper-Kamiokande. The asymmetry ranges from 0.022 to 0.180 at the respective peak energies and differs by up to 9%9\% between normal and inverted orderings. The surface AμeCPT(E,δCP)A_{\mu e}^{\rm CPT}(E,\delta_{\rm CP}) at DUNE reveals an interplay between extrinsic CPT and intrinsic CP violation in the high-L/EL/E regime requiring joint statistical treatment. We quantify the sensitivity of AμeCPTA_{\mu e}^{\rm CPT} to density uncertainties ρρ(1+ε)\rho\rightarrow\rho(1+\varepsilon) with ε=±1%,±2%,±5%\varepsilon=\pm1\%,\pm2\%,\pm5\%, finding that a ±5%\pm5\% uncertainty induces ΔACPT<0.008|\Delta A_{\rm CPT}|<0.008 at DUNE. Replacing the PREM profile with a constant path-averaged density yields a δCP\delta_{\rm CP} reconstruction bias below 0.30.3^\circ for L5000L\le5000 km, increasing to 17.817.8^\circ at 70007000 km and 172.2172.2^\circ at 1200012000 km. Since both effects arise from the same matter Hamiltonian, they must be modelled jointly using a Poisson log-likelihood χ2\chi^2 with nuisance-parameter pulls.

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@article{arxiv.2608.00436,
  title  = {Matter-Induced CPT Violation and Earth-Density Stratification Effects in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments},
  author = {Tia Pandit and Bipin Singh Koranga and Vivek Kumar Nautiyal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.00436},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages, 6 figures