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Reactor Neutrino Experiments with a Large Liquid Scintillator Detector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-10-27 v2

Abstract

We discuss several new ideas for reactor neutrino oscillation experiments with a Large Liquid Scintillator Detector. We consider two different scenarios for a measurement of the small mixing angle θ13\theta_{13} with a mobile νˉe\bar{\nu}_e source: a nuclear-powered ship, such as a submarine or an icebreaker, and a land-based scenario with a mobile reactor. The former setup can achieve a sensitivity to sin22θ130.003\sin^2 2\theta_{13} \lesssim 0.003 at the 90% confidence level, while the latter performs only slightly better than Double Chooz. Furthermore, we study the precision that can be achieved for the solar parameters, sin22θ12\sin^2 2\theta_{12} and Δm212\Delta m_{21}^2, with a mobile reactor and with a conventional power station. With the mobile reactor, a precision slightly better than from current global fit data is possible, while with a power reactor, the accuracy can be reduced to less than 1%. Such a precision is crucial for testing theoretical models, e.g. quark-lepton complementarity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606151,
  title  = {Reactor Neutrino Experiments with a Large Liquid Scintillator Detector},
  author = {Joachim Kopp and Manfred Lindner and Alexander Merle and Mark Rolinec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606151},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

18 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, revised version, to appear in JHEP, Fig. 1 extended, Formula added, minor changes, results unchanged