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We study the possibility to perform neutrino oscillation tomography and to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy in kilometer-scale ice Cerenkov detectors by means of the theta13-driven matter effects which occur during the propagation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-12 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Tracey Li , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

In view of the evaluation of the physics goals of a large Liquid Argon TPC, evolving from the ICARUS technology, we have studied the possibility of performing precision measurements on atmospheric neutrinos. For this purpose we have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Battistoni , A. Ferrari , C. Rubbia , P. R. Sala , F. Vissani

An ultra-large Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber-based neutrino detector will have the uncommon ability to detect atmospheric tau neutrino events. This paper discusses the most promising modes for identifying charged current tau neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Janet Conrad , Andre de Gouvea , Shashank Shalgar , Joshua Spitz

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

Neutrino mass hierarchy can be measured in atmospheric neutrino experiments through the observation of earth matter effects. Magnetized iron calorimeters have been shown to be good in this regard due to their charge identification…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Anushree Ghosh , Sandhya Choubey

Atmospheric neutrino experiments can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy for any value of $\delta_{CP}$. The Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory can distinguish between the charged current interactions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-03 Ali Ajmi , Abhish Dev , Mohammad Nizam , Nitish Nayak , S. Uma Sankar

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

We study the sensitivity of future medium baseline reactor antineutrino experiments on the neutrino mass hierarchy. By using the standard chi^2 analysis, we find that the sensitivity depends strongly on the baseline length L and the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-11 Shao-Feng Ge , Kaoru Hagiwara , Naotoshi Okamura , Yoshitaro Takaesu

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

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

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

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

Recent data from long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have provided new information on \theta_{13}, hinting that 0.01\lesssim sin^2 2\theta_{13} \lesssim 0.1 at 2 sigma C.L. Confirmation of this result with high significance will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Tracey Li , Andre Rubbia

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

We discuss the experimental requirements for a mass hierarchy measurement for $\theta_{13}=0$ using muon neutrino disappearance. We find that a specially optimized neutrino factory at $L \simeq 6 \,000 \, \mathrm{km}$ could do this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Andre de Gouvea , Walter Winter

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 study the neutrino mass hierarchy at the magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector at India-based Neutrino Observatory with atmospheric neutrino events generated by the Monte Carlo event generator Nuance. We judicially choose the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-16 Abhijit Samanta

The potential of future high statistics atmospheric neutrino experiments is considered, having in mind currently discussed huge detectors of various technologies (water Cerekov, magnetized iron, liquid Argon). I focus on the possibility to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-17 Thomas Schwetz

We discuss the potential to determine leading oscillation parameters, the value and the sign of \Delta m^2_{31}, as well as the magnitude of \sin^2 2\theta_{13} using a conventional wide band neutrino beam pointing to water or ice Cherenkov…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Dick , M. Freund , P. Huber , M. Lindner