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After the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ has been precisely measured by the reactor antineutrino experiments, one of the most important open questions left in neutrino physics is the neutrino mass hierarchy. Jiangmen Underground…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-03 Guang Yang

We study the advantages of a second identical detector at a medium baseline reactor neutrino experiment. A major obstruction to the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy is the detector's unknown nonlinear energy response, which even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Zhimin Wang , Changgen Yang , Xinmin Zhang , Weili Zhong

This article reports the optimized experimental requirements to determine neutrino mass hierarchy using electron antineutrinos ($\bar{\nu}_e$) generated in a nuclear reactor. The features of the neutrino mass hierarchy can be extracted from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Y. Pac

Multi-megaton scale under ice and underwater detectors of atmospheric neutrinos with few GeV's energy threshold (PINGU, ORCA) open up new possibilities in the determination of neutrino properties, and in particular the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-26 Mathieu Ribordy , Alexei Yu Smirnov

The sensitivity of a huge underground water/ice Cherenkov detector, such as PINGU in IceCube, to the neutrino mass hierarchy, the atmospheric mixing angle and its octant, is studied in detail. Based on the event rate decomposition in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Shao-Feng Ge , Kaoru Hagiwara

The determination of the neutrino mass ordering is currently pursued by several experiments and proposals. A very challenging one is its evaluation from reactor experiments based on the tiny interference effect between the $\Delta m^2_{31}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-20 Luca Stanco , Giuseppe Salamanna , Alexey Lokhov , Fatma Sawy , Chiara Sirignano

We explore the possibility of simultaneous determination of neutrino mass hierarchy and the CP violating phase by using two identical detectors placed at different baseline distances. We focus on a possible experimental setup using neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Masaki Ishitsuka , Takaaki Kajita , Hisakazu Minakata , Hiroshi Nunokawa

We consider the supernova shock effects, the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) effects, the collective effects, and the Earth matter effects in the detection of type II supernova neutrinos on the Earth. It is found that the event number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Ming-Yang Huang , Xin-Heng Guo , Bing-Lin Young

The pattern of oscillation parameters emerging from current experimental data can be further elucidated by the observation of matter effects. In contrast to planned experiments with conventional neutrino beams, atmospheric neutrinos offer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 T. Tabarelli de Fatis

Determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy in a reactor neutrino experiment at medium baseline is discussed. Observation of the interference effects between the \Delta m^2_{31} and \Delta m^2_{32} oscillations enables a relative…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-20 Yu-Feng Li , Jun Cao , Yifang Wang , Liang Zhan

MEMPHYS (MEgaton Mass PHYSics) is a proposed large-scale water-Cherenkov experiment to be performed deep underground. It is dedicated to nucleon decay searches and the detection of neutrinos from supernovae, solar, and atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Agostino , M. Buizza-Avanzini , M. Marafini , T. Patzak , A. Tonazzo , M. Dracos , N. Vassilopoulos , D. Duchesneau , M. Mezzetto , L. Mosca

Medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiments (MBRO) have been proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) and to make precise measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters. With sufficient statistics, better…

We update our study of neutrino mass hierarchy determination using a high statistics reactor electron anti-neutrino experiment in the light of the recent evidences of a relatively large non-zero value of \theta_{13} from the Daya Bay and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Pomita Ghoshal , S. T. Petcov

After the successful measurement of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$, the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy has become a priority for future neutrino experiments. We propose a conventional $\nu_\mu$ beam with neutrino energies in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-09 Jürgen Brunner

We have studied the mass hierarchy with atmospheric neutrinos considering the muon energy and zenith angle of the event at the magnetized iron calorimeter detector. For $\chi^2$ analysis we have migrated the number of events from neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-22 Abhijit Samanta

Collective neutrino flavor transformations deep inside a supernova are sensitive to the neutrino mass hierarchy even at extremely small values of theta(13). Exploiting this effect, we show that comparison of the antineutrino signals from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe , Alessandro Mirizzi

The measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ opens a gateway for the next generation experiments to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Future reactor experiments will focus on mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-29 Miao He

This paper presents experimental requirements to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using reactor neutrinos. The detector shall be located at a baseline around 58 km from the reactor(s) to measure the energy spectrum of electron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-06 Liang Zhan , Yifang Wang , Jun Cao , Liangjian Wen

In the next 10 years medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments will attempt to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to precisely measure {\theta}_12. Both of these determinations will be more reliable if data from identical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-05 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Zhimin Wang , Changgen Yang , Xinmin Zhang , Weili Zhong

A water \v{C}erenkov detector project, of megaton scale, to be installed in the Fr\'ejus underground site and dedicated to nucleon decay, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as neutrinos from a super-beam…