Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Angle theta_13
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 had been unmeasured due to its smallness compared to others. During 2011 and 2012, series of new-generation neutrino experiments reported positive results in search, and its value has been determined to be just below the previous upper limit. The non-zero result of 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