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Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Angle theta_13

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2013-03-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

Neutrinos exhibit an interesting phenomenon called 'neutrino oscillation', in which a neutrino changes its flavor after traveling some flight length. Many experiments measured the mixing angles and mass differences, but the angle θ13\theta_{13} had been unmeasured due to its smallness compared to others. During 2011 and 2012, series of new-generation neutrino experiments reported positive results in θ13\theta_{13} search, and its value has been determined to be just below the previous upper limit. The non-zero result of θ13\theta_{13} is a very good news for future of neutrino physics, since it opens a possibility of measuring the CP violation phase in the lepton sector. An introduction to neutrino oscillation and latest experimental results are presented. A detail is put on Double Chooz reactor experiment, in which the author is involved.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1289,
  title  = {Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Angle theta_13},
  author = {Masahiro Kuze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1289},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings (JPSJ Proc. Suppl.) of the International Symposium "Nanoscience and Quantum Physics 2012" (nanoPHYS'12), 17-19 Dec., Tokyo, Japan. The talk was aimed at non-HEP physicists