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We study in detail the sensitivity of neutrino oscillation probabilities to the fundamental neutrino parameters and their possible determination through experiments. The first part of the paper is devoted to the broad theme of isolating…

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Despite the dramatic progress made in neutrino oscillation studies recently, several fundamental neutrino parameters remain either unknown or poorly measured. We discuss in detail a method for their measurement by precision studies of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-08 Mikhail Batygov , Stephen Dye , John Learned , Shigenobu Matsuno , Sandip Pakvasa , Gary Varner

A lithium-based radiochemical detector is aimed primarily to detect neutrinos from CNO cycle what will provide a direct proof of its existence and will be a stringent test of the theory of stellar evolution. Another task which can be solved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Kopylov , Valery Petukhov

We investigate the potential to probe new neutrino physics with future experiments measuring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Experiments with high statistics should become feasible soon and allow to constrain parameters with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

We perform a global analysis of neutrino oscillation data, including high-precision measurements of the neutrino mixing angle theta_13 at reactor experiments, which have confirmed previous indications in favor of theta_13>0. Recent data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Marrone , D. Montanino , A. Palazzo , A. M. Rotunno

In the present work we propose to study neutrino oscillations employing sources of monoenergetic neutrinos following electron capture by the nucleus. Since the neutrino energy is very low the smaller of the two oscillation lengths, L23,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 J. D. Vergados , Yu. N. Novikov

Some issues regarding low energy neutrinos are reviewed. We focus on three aspects i)We show that by employing very low energy (a few keV) electron neutrinos, neutrino disappearance oscillations can be investigated by detecting recoiling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados

Conventional reactor neutrino experiments are dissapearance experiments, and thus have less sensitivity to small mixing angles than appearance experiments do. It has been recently shown that future reactor neutrino experiments consisiting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose Bernabeu , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Neutrinos produced by nuclear reactors have played a major role in advancing our knowledge of the properties of neutrinos. The first direct detection of the neutrino, confirming its existence, was performed using reactor neutrinos. More…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-26 Xin Qian , Jen-Chieh Peng

I try to give an overview of future prospects of the experimental exploration of the unknowns in the neutrino mass pattern and the lepton flavor mixing. Because of the nature of the lectures on which this manuscript is based, I give some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hisakazu Minakata

Many experiments are being planned to measure the neutrino mixing parameter $\theta_{13}$ using reactor as well as accelerator neutrino beams. In this note, the theoretical significance of a high precision measurement of this parameter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Mohapatra

Measurements of flavor ratios of astrophysical neutrino fluxes are sensitive to the two yet unknown mixing parameters $\theta_{13}$ and $\delta$ through the combination $\sin\theta_{13}\cos\delta$. We extend previous studies by considering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-03 Kfir Blum , Yosef Nir , Eli Waxman

Accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of fundamental physics, offering an opportunity to characterise charge-parity violation in the lepton sector; to determine the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-28 Stephen Dolan , Luke Pickering , Patrick Stowell , Callum Wilkinson , Clarence Wret

The question "how small is the lepton mixing angle \theta_{13}?" had a convincing answer in a surprisingly short time, \theta_{13} \simeq 9^{\circ}, a large value comparable to the Chooz limit. It defines a new epoch in the program of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Hisakazu Minakata

The purpose of the present paper is to study the neutrino properties as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay, with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 KeV. The technical challenges to this end can be summarized as…

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Neutrinos are elementary particles in the standard model of particle physics. There are 3 flavors of neutrinos that oscillate among themselves. Their oscillation can be described by a 3$\times$3 unitary matrix, containing three mixing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 Haoqi Lu

Future long-baseline neutrino experiments will measure neutrino oscillation properties with unprecedented precision and will search for clear signatures of CP violation in the leptonic sector. Near detectors can measure the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Omar G. Miranda , Guadalupe Moreno-Granados , Celio A. Moura

Angle \theta_13 is one of the two unknown neutrino mixing parameters to be determined. Its value may determine the future trend of the neutrino physics. We propose to measure sin^22\theta_13 with a sensitivity better than 0.01 (90% C.L) at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Yifang Wang

The recent evidence for neutrino oscillations opens a new and exciting era in neutrino physics. The next generation of accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiments are expected to confirm the nature of the oscillations, and begin to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Steve Geer

Recently, the reactor mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ has been measured precisely by Daya Bay, RENO and T2K experiments with a moderately large value. However, the standard form of neutrino mixing patterns such as bimaximal, tri-bimaximal,…

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