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Probing neutrino parameters with a Two-Baseline Beta-beam set-up

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-04-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We discuss the prospects of exploring the neutrino mass parameters with a CERN based Beta-beam experiment using two different detectors at two different baselines. The proposed set-up consists of a 50 kton iron calorimeter (ICAL) at a baseline of around 7150 km which is roughly the magic baseline, e.g., ICAL@INO, and a 50 kton Totally Active Scintillator Detector at a distance of 730 km, e.g., at Gran Sasso. We take 8B and 8Li source ions with a boost factor γ\gamma of 650 for the magic baseline while for the closer detector we consider 18Ne and 6He ions with a range of Lorentz boosts. We find that the locations of the two detectors complement each other leading to an exceptional high sensitivity. With γ=650\gamma=650 for 8B/8Li and γ=575\gamma=575 for 18Ne/6He and total luminosity corresponding to 5×(1.1×1019)5\times (1.1\times 10^{19}) and 5×(2.9×1019)5\times (2.9\times 10^{19}) useful ion decays in neutrino and antineutrino modes respectively, we find that the two-detector set-up can probe maximal CP violation and establish the neutrino mass ordering if sin22θ13\sin^22\theta_{13} is 1.8×1051.8 \times 10^{-5} and 4.6×1054.6 \times 10^{-5}, respectively, or more. The sensitivity reach for sin22θ13\sin^22\theta_{13} itself is 5.3×1055.3 \times 10^{-5}. CP violation can be discovered for 64% of the possible δCP\delta_{CP} values for sin22θ138×105\sin^22\theta_{13} \geq 8\times 10^{-5}.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1828,
  title  = {Probing neutrino parameters with a Two-Baseline Beta-beam set-up},
  author = {Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla and Sandhya Choubey and Amitava Raychaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1828},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, 2 figures, and 1 table. To appear in the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams (NUFACT08), June 30 - July 5 2008, Valencia, Spain

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