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Precise measurement of $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ using Japanese Reactors

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

After the KamLAND results, the remaining important targets in neutrino experiments are to measure still unknown 3 basic parameters; absolute neutrino mass scale, CP violation phase δCP\delta_{CP} and last mixing angle θ13\theta_{13}. The angle θ13\theta_{13} among them is expected to be measured in near future by long baseline accelerator experiments and reactor experiments. In this paper, a realistic idea of high sensitivity reactor measurement of sin22θ13\sin^22\theta_{13} is described. This experiment uses a giant nuclear power plant as the neutrino source and three identical detectors are used to cancel detector and neutrino flux uncertainties. The sensitivity reach on sin22θ13\sin^22\theta_{13} is 0.0170.0260.017\sim0.026 at Δm1323×103eV2\Delta m^2_{13} \sim 3 \times 10^{-3}eV^2, which is five to seven times better than the current upper limit measured by CHOOZ.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0306029,
  title  = {Precise measurement of $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ using Japanese Reactors},
  author = {F. Suekane and K. Inoue and T. Araki and K. Jongok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0306029},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, uses ws-procs9x6.cls. To appear in the proceedings of 4th Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and their Origin (NOON2003), Kanazawa, Japan, 10-14 Feb 2003