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Nowadays neutrino physics is undergoing a change of perspective: the discovery period is almost over and the phase of precise measurements is starting. Despite the limited statistics collected for some variables, the three--flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-15 L. Stanco , S. Dusini , M. Tenti

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

Neutrino oscillations have been probed during the last few decades using multiple neutrino sources and experimental set-ups. In the recent years, very large volume neutrino telescopes have started contributing to the field. First ANTARES…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-22 J. P. Yañez , A. Kouchner

We show that by combining high precision measurements of the atmospheric delta m^2 in both the electron and muon neutrino (or anti-neutrino) disappearance channels one can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. The required precision is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroshi Nunokawa , Stephen Parke , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed extension to the IceCube detector. The design of PINGU would augment the existing 86 strings with an additional 40 with the main goal of determining the neutrino mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-02 Steven Wren

It is proposed to complement the ESS proton linac with equipment that would enable the production, concurrently with the production of the planned ESS beam used for neutron production, of a 5 MW beam of 10$^{23}$ 2.5 GeV protons per year in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-02-12 E. Baussan , M. Dracos , T. Ekelof , E. Fernandez Martinez , H. Ohman , N. Vassilopoulos

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 give a comprehensive account of our proposed experimental method of using atoms or molecules in order to measure parameters of neutrinos still undetermined; the absolute mass scale, the mass hierarchy pattern (normal or inverted), the…

We investigate the sensitivity of some of the proposed next-generation neutrino experiments to a galactic supernova. In particular, we study how well the supernova parameters (the average energies and luminosities) can be separated from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Solveig Skadhauge , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

The relatively large measured value of theta_13 has opened various possiblities to determine the neutrino mass ordering, among them using PINGU, the low-energy extention of the IceCube neutrino telescope, to observe matter effects in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Mattias Blennow , Thomas Schwetz

A next-generation neutrino telescope infrastructure, the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope KM3NeT, is currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. Its low energy configuration ORCA is optimised for the detection of atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Piotr Kalaczyński

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

We show that for long-baseline experiments using a Mt water Cerenkov detector atmospheric neutrino data provide a powerful method to resolve parameter degeneracies. In particular, the combination of long-baseline and atmospheric data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Schwetz

The unknown neutrino mass hierarchy -- whether the $\nu_3$ mass eigenstate is the heaviest or the lightest -- represents a major gap in our knowledge of neutrino properties. Determining the hierarchy is a critical step toward further…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-09 R. B. Patterson

We consider the nu_mu to nu_e oscillation measurements that would be possible at upgraded 1 GeV and multi-GeV conventional neutrino sources driven by future megawatt-scale proton drivers. If these neutrino superbeams are used together with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Barger

ORCA (Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is the low-energy node of KM3NeT, the next generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector in the Mediterranean sea. The primary goal of KM3NeT-ORCA is the determination of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-13 Nafis Rezwan Khan Chowdhury

We point out a synergy between T-conjugated oscillation channels in the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy with oscillation experiments with relatively short baselines (L < 700 km), where the matter effect is small. If information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Thomas Schwetz

We propose a new parameterization to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy, namely $\Delta=(m_3-m_1)/(m_1+m_3)$ which is dimensionless and varies in the range $[-1,1]$. Taking into account the results of neutrino oscillation experiments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 Lixin Xu , Qing-Guo Huang

KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Simon Bourret , João A. B. Coelho , Véronique Van Elewyck

The relatively large measured value of $\theta_{13}$ has opened up the possibility of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy through earth matter effects. Amongst the current accelerator-based experiments only NOvA has a long enough…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Anushree Ghosh , Tarak Thakore , Sandhya Choubey