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Measuring the Leptonic CP Phase in $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\mu}$ Oscillations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

In νμνμ\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\mu} oscillations, we find that the effect of the CP phase δ\delta becomes large in the region E<2E<2 GeV and L>2000L>2000 km. In this region, the change of the probability in this channel reaches about 0.4 due to the CP phase effect beyond our expectation in the case of large 1-3 mixing angle. Furthermore, the CP phase effect have almost same sign over the region E>0.5E>0.5 GeV so that one may find the signal of CP violation by measuring the total rate only. As an example, we use an experimental setup and demonstrate that the allowed region is limited to one by combined analysis of νe\nu_e and νμ\nu_{\mu} events although there remain three allowed regions by the analysis of νe\nu_e events alone.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0605308,
  title  = {Measuring the Leptonic CP Phase in $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\mu}$ Oscillations},
  author = {Keiichi Kimura and Akira Takamura and Tadashi Yoshikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0605308},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 8 figures, version to appear in PLB