scholarly journals Discrimination of the mass hierarchy with atmospheric neutrinos at a magnetized muon detector

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Samanta
2008 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 042015
Author(s):  
Raj Gandhi ◽  
Pomita Ghoshal ◽  
Srubabati Goswami ◽  
Poonam Mehta ◽  
S Uma Sankar ◽  
...  

1988 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Auriemma ◽  
M. Felcini ◽  
P. Lipari ◽  
J. L. Stone

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Brunner

IceCube and ANTARES are the world-largest neutrino telescopes. They are successfully taking data, producing a wealth of scientific results. Whereas their main goal is the detection of cosmic neutrinos with energies in the TeV-PeV range, both have demonstrated their capability to measure neutrino oscillations by studying atmospheric neutrinos with energies of 10–50 GeV. After recalling the methods of these measurements and the first published results of these searches, the potential of existing, and planned low-energy extensions of IceCube and KM3Net are discussed. These new detectors will be able to improve the knowledge of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters, and in particular they might help to understand the neutrino mass hierarchy. Such studies, which use atmospheric neutrinos, could be complemented by measurements in a long-baseline neutrino beam, which is discussed as a long-term future option.


2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj Gandhi ◽  
Pomita Ghoshal ◽  
Srubabati Goswami ◽  
S. Uma Sankar

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (26) ◽  
pp. 2255-2266 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAJ GANDHI ◽  
POMITA GHOSHAL ◽  
SRUBABATI GOSWAMI ◽  
S. UMA SANKAR

We examine the possibility of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy in the limit θ13=0 using atmospheric neutrinos as the source. In this limit, in which θ13 driven matter effects are absent, independent measurements of Δ31 and Δ32 can, in principle, lead to hierarchy determination. Since the difference between these two is Δ21, one needs an experimental arrangement where Δ21 L/E ≳1 can be achieved. This condition can be satisfied by atmospheric neutrinos since they have a large range of energies and baselines. In spite of this, we find that hierarchy determination in the θ13=0 limit with atmospheric neutrinos is not a realistic possibility, even in conjunction with an apparently synergistic beam experiment like T2K or NOνA. We discuss the reasons for this, and also in the process clarify the conditions that must be satisfied in general for hierarchy determination if θ13=0.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Franco ◽  
C. Jollet ◽  
A. Kouchner ◽  
V. Kulikovskiy ◽  
A. Meregaglia ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (07) ◽  
pp. 1650020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon Barger ◽  
Atri Bhattacharya ◽  
Animesh Chatterjee ◽  
Raj Gandhi ◽  
Danny Marfatia ◽  
...  

We perform a comprehensive study of the ability of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to answer outstanding questions in the neutrino sector. We consider the sensitivities to the mass hierarchy, the octant of [Formula: see text] and to CP violation using data from beam and atmospheric neutrinos. We evaluate the dependencies on the precision with which [Formula: see text] will be measured by reactor experiments, on the detector size, beam power and exposure time, on detector magnetization, and on the systematic uncertainties achievable with and without a near detector. We find that a 35 kt far detector in DUNE with a near detector will resolve the eightfold degeneracy that is intrinsic to long baseline experiments and will meet the primary goals of oscillation physics that it is designed for.


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