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The LBNO long-baseline oscillation sensitivities with two conventional neutrino beams at different baselines

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-12-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Observatory (LBNO) initially consists of 20\sim 20 kton liquid double phase TPC complemented by a magnetised iron calorimeter, to be installed at the Pyh\"asalmi mine, at a distance of 2300 km from CERN. The conventional neutrino beam is produced by 400 GeV protons accelerated at the SPS accelerator delivering 700 kW of power. The long baseline provides a unique opportunity to study neutrino flavour oscillations over their 1st and 2nd oscillation maxima exploring the L/EL/E behaviour, and distinguishing effects arising from δCP\delta_{CP} and matter. In this paper we show how this comprehensive physics case can be further enhanced and complemented if a neutrino beam produced at the Protvino IHEP accelerator complex, at a distance of 1160 km, and with modest power of 450 kW is aimed towards the same far detectors. We show that the coupling of two independent sub-MW conventional neutrino and antineutrino beams at different baselines from CERN and Protvino will allow to measure CP violation in the leptonic sector at a confidence level of at least 3σ3\sigma for 50\% of the true values of δCP\delta_{CP} with a 20 kton detector. With a far detector of 70 kton, the combination allows a 3σ3\sigma sensitivity for 75\% of the true values of δCP\delta_{CP} after 10 years of running. Running two independent neutrino beams, each at a power below 1 MW, is more within today's state of the art than the long-term operation of a new single high-energy multi-MW facility, which has several technical challenges and will likely require a learning curve.

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@article{arxiv.1412.0804,
  title  = {The LBNO long-baseline oscillation sensitivities with two conventional neutrino beams at different baselines},
  author = {LBNO Collaboration and S. K. Agarwalla and L. Agostino and M. Aittola and A. Alekou and B. Andrieu and F. Antoniou and R. Asfandiyarov and D. Autiero and O. Bésida and A. Balik and P. Ballett and I. Bandac and D. Banerjee and W. Bartmann and F. Bay and B. Biskup and A. M. Blebea-Apostu and A. Blondel and M. Bogomilov and S. Bolognesi and E. Borriello and I. Brancus and A. Bravar and M. Buizza-Avanzini and D. Caiulo and M. Calin and M. Calviani and M. Campanelli and C. Cantini and G. Cata-Danil and S. Chakraborty and N. Charitonidis and L. Chaussard and D. Chesneanu and F. Chipesiu and P. Crivelli and J. Dawson and I. De Bonis and Y. Declais and P. Del Amo Sanchez and A. Delbart and S. Di Luise and D. Duchesneau and J. Dumarchez and I. Efthymiopoulos and A. Eliseev and S. Emery and T. Enqvist and K. Enqvist and L. Epprecht and A. N. Erykalov and T. Esanu and D. Franco and M. Friend and V. Galymov and G. Gavrilov and A. Gendotti and C. Giganti and S. Gilardoni and B. Goddard and C. M. Gomoiu and Y. A. Gornushkin and P. Gorodetzky and A. Haesler and T. Hasegawa and S. Horikawa and K. Huitu and A. Izmaylov and A. Jipa and K. Kainulainen and Y. Karadzhov and M. Khabibullin and A. Khotjantsev and A. N. Kopylov and A. Korzenev and S. Kosyanenko and D. Kryn and Y. Kudenko and P. Kuusiniemi and I. Lazanu and C. Lazaridis and J. -M. Levy and K. Loo and J. Maalampi and R. M. Margineanu and J. Marteau and C. Martin-Mari and V. Matveev and E. Mazzucato and A. Mefodiev and O. Mineev and A. Mirizzi and B. Mitrica and S. Murphy and T. Nakadaira and S. Narita and D. A. Nesterenko and K. Nguyen and K. Nikolics and E. Noah and Yu. Novikov and A. Oprima and J. Osborne and T. Ovsyannikova and Y. Papaphilippou and S. Pascoli and T. Patzak and M. Pectu and E. Pennacchio and L. Periale and H. Pessard and B. Popov and M. Ravonel and M. Rayner and F. Resnati and O. Ristea and A. Robert and A. Rubbia and K. Rummukainen and A. Saftoiu and K. Sakashita and F. Sanchez-Galan and J. Sarkamo and N. Saviano and E. Scantamburlo and F. Sergiampietri and D. Sgalaberna and E. Shaposhnikova and M. Slupecki and D. Smargianaki and D. Stanca and R. Steerenberg and A. R. Sterian and P. Sterian and S. Stoica and C. Strabel and J. Suhonen and V. Suvorov and G. Toma and A. Tonazzo and W. H. Trzaska and R. Tsenov and K. Tuominen and M. Valram and G. Vankova-Kirilova and F. Vannucci and G. Vasseur and F. Velotti and P. Velten and V. Venturi and T. Viant and S. Vihonen and H. Vincke and A. Vorobyev and A. Weber and S. Wu and N. Yershov and L. Zambelli and M. Zito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0804},
  year   = {2014}
}

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21 pages, 12 figures