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Resolving the Solar Neutrino Problem with KamLAND

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-15 v3 Astrophysics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study how well KamLAND, the first terrestrial neutrino experiment capable of addressing the solar neutrino problem, will perform in ascertaining whether or not the large mixing angle MSW solution (with 105<Δm212<104eV210^{-5}<\Delta m_{21}^2< 10^{-4} eV^2 and oscillation amplitude sin22θ12>0.3sin^2 2 \theta_{12}>0.3) is correct. We find that in a year of operation KamLAND will provide unequivocal evidence for or against this solution. Furthermore, its sensitivity to the three-neutrino oscillation parameters in this region is sufficiently acute as to determine Δm212\Delta m_{21}^2 to approximately ±10\pm 10 % (for sin22θ12>0.7sin^2 2 \theta_{12}>0.7) and to fix sin22θ12sin^2 2 \theta_{12} to within ±0.1\pm 0.1 (at the 2σ2\sigma level) with three years of accumulated data, independent of the value of θ13\theta_{13}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011251,
  title  = {Resolving the Solar Neutrino Problem with KamLAND},
  author = {V. Barger and Danny Marfatia and Benjamin P. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011251},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

A typographical error is corrected. "3\sigma" is replaced by "2\sigma" everywhere