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Many studies in the last ten years have shown that we can measure the unknown angle theta13, discover leptonic CP violation and determine the neutrino hierarchy in more precise neutrino oscillation experiments, searching for the subleading…

In order to address some fundamental questions in neutrino physics a wide, future programme of neutrino oscillation experiments is currently under discussion. Among those, long baseline experiments will play a crucial role in providing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-19 Davide Meloni , Olga Mena , Christopher Orme , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

A constraint on the error of leptonic CP violation, which require the phase $\delta_{CP}$ to be less than $\pi/4$ for it to be distinguishable on a $2\pi$ cycle, is presented. Under this constraint, the effects of neutrino detector 's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Kai Fu , Ying Zhang

We consider the medium- and long-baseline oscillation physics capabilities of intense muon-neutrino and muon-antineutrino beams produced using future upgraded megawatt-scale high-energy proton beams. In particular we consider the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , S. Geer , R. Raja , K. Whisnant

A high-power neutrino superbeam experiment at the ESS facility has been proposed such that the source-detector distance falls at the second oscillation maximum, giving very good sensitivity towards establishing CP violation. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Sandhya Choubey , Suprabh Prakash

In this talk, we present the physics case for a megaton Water Cerenkov detector in addressing some of the still pending questions in neutrino oscillations physics, particularly the measurement of leptonic CP violation. We compare different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Couce

The physics potential of high intensity conventional beams is explored. We consider a low energy super beam which could be produced by a proposed new accelerator at CERN, the Super Proton Linac. Water Cherenkov and liquid oil scintillator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , A. Blondel , J. Burguet-Castell , D. Casper , M. DOnega , S. Gilardoni , P. Hernandez , M. Mezzetto

We investigate the possibility to find the leptonic CP-violation by combining the reactor experiment with the superbeam experiment without antineutrino superbeam. We show also how much the sensitivity on CP-violating phase delta is affected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroaki Sugiyama

Considering the recently obtained value of $\theta_{13}$ from Daya Bay and other reactor experiments we have studied the prospects of considering mono-energetic neutrino beam in studying $CP$ violation in the leptonic sector. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-05 Zini Rahman , Rathin Adhikari

The ultimate goal for future neutrino facilities is the determination of CP violation in neutrino oscillations. Besides $| U(e3) | \ne 0$, this will require precision experiments with a very intense neutrino source and energy control. With…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 José Bernabéu , Catalina Espinoza

In this paper, the possibility to exploit a high energy beta beam without massive detectors is discussed. The radioactive ions are boosted up to very high $\gamma$ with the neutrino beam pointing towards an instrumented surface located at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Terranova , A. Marotta , P. Migliozzi , M. Spinetti

An analysis of the neutrino oscillation physics capability of a low energy Neutrino Factory is presented, including a first simulation of the detector efficiency and event energy threshold. The sensitivity of the physics reach to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan Bross , Malcolm Ellis , Steve Geer , Olga Mena , Silvia Pascoli

This article extends the work of Bernabeu and Espinoza by examining the CP-violation reach of a $^{150}$Dy electron capture beam through the variation of the two Lorentz boosts, the number of useful electron capture decays, the relative run…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Christopher Orme

We discuss in detail the physics reach of an experimental set-up where electron neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) produced in a beta-beam facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) are sent, over a distance of L~1300km, to the Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Patrick Huber

Taking the established nonzero value of $\theta_{13}$, we study the possibility of extracting the Dirac CP-violating phase by a beta beam facility with a boost factor $100<\gamma<450$. We compare the performance of different setups with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Pouya Bakhti , Yasaman Farzan

The long-term prospects for fully exploring three-flavor mixing in the neutrino sector depend upon an ongoing and increased investment in the appropriate accelerator R&D. Two new concepts have been proposed that would revolutionize neutrino…

We underscore the physics advantage of an experiment where neutrinos produced in a beta-beam facility at CERN are observed in a large magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). The CERN-INO distance is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Sandhya Choubey , Amitava Raychaudhuri

A novel method to produce neutrino beams has recently been proposed : the beta-beams. This method consists in using the beta-decay of boosted radioactive nuclei to obtain an intense, collimated and pure neutrino beam. Here we propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Volpe

The existence of CP-violation in the leptonic sector is one of the most important issues for modern science. Neutrino physics is a key to the solution of this problem. JUNO (under construction) is the near future of neutrino physics.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-14 Mikhail Smirnov , Zhuojun Hu , Shuaijie Li , Jiajie Ling

The best method of measuring CP violating effect in neutrino oscillation experiments is to construct and use a neutrino beam made of an ideal mixture of $\bar{\nu}_e$ and $\nu_e$ of monochromatic lines. The conceptual design of such a beam…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-25 A. Fukumi , I. Nakano , H. Nanjo , N. Sasao , S. Sato , M. Yoshimura