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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

Proposed low energy beta beam facilities would be capable of producing intense beams of neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) with well defined spectra. We present analytic expressions and numerical results which accurately show how the total neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Philip S. Amanik , Gail C. McLaughlin

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 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

The observed flavor oscillations of solar and atmospheric neutrinos determine several elements of the leptonic mixing matrix, but leave open the small mixing angle Theta_13, a possible CP-violating phase, the mass ordering, the absolute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. G. Raffelt

We examine the reach of a Beta-beam experiment with two detectors at carefully chosen baselines for exploring neutrino mass parameters. Locating the source at CERN, the two detectors and baselines are: (a) a 50 kton iron calorimeter (ICAL)…

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

We discuss how and to what extent one can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, normal or inverted, and at the same time uncover CP violation in the lepton sector by using two identical detectors with different baselines in neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaki Ishitsuka , Takaaki Kajita , Hisakazu Minakata , Hiroshi Nunokawa

We show that the measurements of 10 GeV atmospheric neutrinos by an upcoming array of densely packed phototubes buried deep inside the IceCube detector at the South Pole can be used to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy for values of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-11 Olga Mena , Irina Mocioiu , Soebur Razzaque

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 argue that a high precision measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter $\theta_{13}$, within a three neutrino seesaw framework can throw important light on the question of whether the quarks and leptons unify into a single matter at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Mohapatra

In this paper we consider a Beta Beam setup that tries to leverage at most existing European facilities: i.e. a setup that takes advantage of facilities at CERN to boost high-Q ions (8Li and 8B) aiming at a far detector located at L = 732…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Coloma , A. Donini , P. Migliozzi , L. Scotto Lavina , F. Terranova

We examine the possibility of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy in the limit \theta_{13} = 0 using atmospheric neutrinos as the source. In this limit, in which \theta_{13} driven matter effects are absent, independent measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Raj Gandhi , Pomita Ghoshal , Srubabati Goswami , S Uma Sankar

It is shown that high energy neutrino beams from very distant sources can beutilized to learn about some properties fof neutrinos such as lifetimes and mass hierarchy etc. Furthermore, even mixing elements such as U-e3 and the CPV phase can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sandip Pakvasa

We report the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) sensitivity of medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments with multiple detectors. Sensitivity of determining the MH can be significantly improved by adding a near detector and combining both the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Hongxin Wang , Liang Zhan , Yu-Feng Li , Guofu Cao , Shenjian Chen

In this paper, we discuss the possibilities offered to neutrino physics by the upgrades of the CERN accelerator complex. Emphasis is on the physics reach of a medium $\gamma$ (350-580) $\beta$-beam that fully exploits the improvements in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Donini , E. Fernandez , P. Migliozzi , S. Rigolin , L. Scotto Lavina , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , F. Terranova

In this paper we stress the idea that new, more precise neutrino cross-sections measurements at low energies will be necessary to improve the results of future big neutrino detectors, which will be dominated by the contribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Campanelli , S. Navas-Concha , A. Rubbia

We review how a high-statistics observation of the neutrino signal from a future galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) may be used to discriminate between different neutrino mixing scenarios. Most SN neutrinos are emitted in the accretion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Tomas

We review how a high-statistics observation of the neutrino signal from a future galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) may be used to discriminate between different neutrino mixing scenarios. Most SN neutrinos are emitted in the accretion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kachelriess , R. Tomas

We investigate the potential of a flavor pure high gamma electron capture electron neutrino beam directed towards a large water cherenkov detector with 500 kt fiducial mass. The energy of the neutrinos is reconstructed by the position…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Rolinec , Joe Sato

Results for neutrino flavor oscillations and neutrino mixing mechanisms, obtained from the analysis of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), the SuperKamiokande (SK), CHOOZ, KamLAND and WMAP data, are used to calculate the effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Civitarese , J. Suhonen