Physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a J-PARC neutrino beam and Hyper-Kamiokande
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Journal Article
Abstract
Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next-generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of Hyper-Kamiokande is the study of CPCP asymmetry in the lepton sector using accelerator neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. In this paper, the physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino experiment using the Hyper-Kamiokande detector and a neutrino beam from the J-PARC proton synchrotron is presented. The analysis uses the framework and systematic uncertainties derived from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5 MW ×107×107s integrated proton beam power (corresponding to 1.56×10221.56×1022 protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a 2.5∘2.5∘ off-axis neutrino beam, it is expected that the leptonic CPCP phase δCPδCP can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of δCPδCP, and CPCP violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than 3σ3σ (5σ5σ) for 76%76% (58%58%) of the δCPδCP parameter space. Using both νeνe appearance and νμνμ disappearance data, the expected 1σσ uncertainty of sin2θ23sin2θ23 is 0.015(0.006) for sin2θ23=0.5(0.45)sin2θ23=0.5(0.45).
Date Issued
2015-05-19
Date Acceptance
2015-03-29
Citation
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2015, 2015 (5)
ISSN
2050-3911
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal / Book Title
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Volume
2015
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Grant Number
ST/F009976/1
ST/K001604/1
ST/M002691/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
CP-VIOLATION
SUPER-KAMIOKANDE
DETECTOR
MASS
NONCONSERVATION
CONSERVATION
SYMMETRIES
MINIBOONE
MODEL
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
053C02