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TY - JOUR
T1 - Neutrino oscillation physics potential of the T2K experiment
AU - Abe, K.
AU - Adam, J.
AU - Aihara, H.
AU - Akiri, T.
AU - Andreopoulos, C.
AU - Aoki, S.
AU - Ariga, A.
AU - Assylbekov, S.
AU - Autiero, D.
AU - Barbi, M.
AU - Barker, G. J.
AU - Barr, G.
AU - Bartet-Friburg, P.
AU - Bass, M.
AU - Batkiewicz, M.
AU - Bay, F.
AU - Berardi, V.
AU - Berger, B. E.
AU - Berkman, S.
AU - Bhadra, S.
AU - Blaszczyk, F. d. M.
AU - Blondel, A.
AU - Bojechko, C.
AU - Bordoni, S.
AU - Boyd, S. B.
AU - Brailsford, D.
AU - Bravar, A.
AU - Bronner, C.
AU - Buchanan, N.
AU - Calland, R. G.
AU - Rodr'iguez, J. Caravaca
AU - Cartwright, S. L.
AU - Castillo, R.
AU - Catanesi, M. G.
AU - Cervera, A.
AU - Cherdack, D.
AU - Christodoulou, G.
AU - Clifton, A.
AU - Coleman, J.
AU - Dealtry, T.
AU - Finch, A. J.
AU - Grant, N.
AU - Kormos, L. L.
AU - Lamont, I.
AU - Lawe, M.
AU - Nowak, J.
AU - O'Keeffe, H. M.
AU - Ratoff, P. N.
AU - Reeves, M.
AU - Southwell, L.
AU - T2K Collaboration
N1 - Date of Acceptance: 29/01/2015 © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan. 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. 40 pages, 27 figures, accepted by PTEP
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The observation of the recent electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam and the high-precision measurement of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ have led to a re-evaluation of the physics potential of the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Sensitivities are explored for CP violation in neutrinos, non-maximal $\sin^22\theta_{23}$, the octant of $\theta_{23}$, and the mass hierarchy, in addition to the measurements of $\delta_{CP}$, $\sin^2\theta_{23}$, and $\Delta m^2_{32}$, for various combinations of $\nu$-mode and \(\bar{\nu}\)-mode data-taking. With an exposure of $7.8\times10^{21}$~protons-on-target, T2K can achieve 1-$\sigma$ resolution of 0.050(0.054) on $\sin^2\theta_{23}$ and $0.040(0.045)\times10^{-3}~\rm{eV}^2$ on $\Delta m^2_{32}$ for 100\%(50\%) neutrino beam mode running assuming $\sin^2\theta_{23}=0.5$ and $\Delta m^2_{32} = 2.4\times10^{-3}$ eV$^2$. T2K will have sensitivity to the CP-violating phase $\delta_{\rm{CP}}$ at 90\% C.L. or better over a significant range. For example, if $\sin^22\theta_{23}$ is maximal (i.e $\theta_{23}$=$45^\circ$) the range is $-115^\circ\delta_{\rm{CP}}$+50^\circ\delta_{\rm{CP}}
AB - The observation of the recent electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam and the high-precision measurement of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ have led to a re-evaluation of the physics potential of the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Sensitivities are explored for CP violation in neutrinos, non-maximal $\sin^22\theta_{23}$, the octant of $\theta_{23}$, and the mass hierarchy, in addition to the measurements of $\delta_{CP}$, $\sin^2\theta_{23}$, and $\Delta m^2_{32}$, for various combinations of $\nu$-mode and \(\bar{\nu}\)-mode data-taking. With an exposure of $7.8\times10^{21}$~protons-on-target, T2K can achieve 1-$\sigma$ resolution of 0.050(0.054) on $\sin^2\theta_{23}$ and $0.040(0.045)\times10^{-3}~\rm{eV}^2$ on $\Delta m^2_{32}$ for 100\%(50\%) neutrino beam mode running assuming $\sin^2\theta_{23}=0.5$ and $\Delta m^2_{32} = 2.4\times10^{-3}$ eV$^2$. T2K will have sensitivity to the CP-violating phase $\delta_{\rm{CP}}$ at 90\% C.L. or better over a significant range. For example, if $\sin^22\theta_{23}$ is maximal (i.e $\theta_{23}$=$45^\circ$) the range is $-115^\circ\delta_{\rm{CP}}$+50^\circ\delta_{\rm{CP}}
KW - hep-ex
U2 - 10.1093/ptep/ptv031
DO - 10.1093/ptep/ptv031
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2015
JO - Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
JF - Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 043C01
ER -