LBL neutrinos; looking forward to the future Hisakazu Minakata Tokyo Metropolitan University

LBL neutrinos; looking forward to the future

Hisakazu Minakata

Tokyo Metropolitan University

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n oscillation has been clearly seen!

K2K

SK

MINOS 07KamLAND 08


Exploring the unknowns; 1-3 sector and mass hierarchy na=Uai

ni

SK-atm+K2K+MINOS

solar+KamLAND

Atm + accel n=>

<= solar + reactor n


Next generation experiments

260m high Mt.

88m high Mt.

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Foreseeing the next

step

Next step?

• Proof of validity of lepton KM mechanism in n mass embedded SM

• Indicate quark-lepton unity/correspondence

• vacuum environment cleaner, but doable in matter

• Conventional vs. unconventional mass pattern of neutrinos

• Probe physics of neutrino mass

• matter effect required to resolve the mass hierarchy


CP violation Mass hierarchy


Terminology; degeneracy & bi-P plot


A machinery in my talk

Oscillation probability draw ellipse if plotted in bi-P plane

Role played by CP phase and the matter clearly distinguished

Art work by Adam Para

Two solutions of S232 x

HM-Nunokawa JHEP01


Cause of the degeneracy; easy to understand

• You can draw two ellipses from a point in P-Pbar space

• Intrinsic degeneracy

• Doubled by the unknown sign of m2

• 4-fold degeneracy

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Origin of sign-Dm2 degeneracy

• Pme in vacuum has an approximate invariance under the transformation

• It ensures the degree of freedom of sign-Dm2 flipped solution

• Continuity in change in matter effect guarantees its existence generically in matterSeptember 14, 2009

MN JHEP01


Various options/possibilit

ies

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Strategy for both CP and MH• Neutrino oscillation probability is a function

of L/E in vacuum• In matter, matter effect comes in via a

different way, aL =\sqrt{2}GFNeL

• There are two ways to explore structure of oscillation => mixing parameters

• used by BNL-type multi-OM approach (also used in off-axis beam)

• 2 detector approach

Vary E

Vary L


BNL strategy (hep-ex/0211001)


Project X: Off-axis NOVA --> VLBL multi-OM type approach

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Perspectives

(mainly) in the

North East Asia

T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) 2nd phase and CERN-MEMPHYS


CP violation measurement at low E and short L=best place for looking for CP violation (low E superbeam, HM-Nunokawa 00)

4 MW + 1 megaton water Cherenkov

Mass hierarchy difficult to resolve


Lepton CP sensitivity at T2K

thick: 3, thin: 2

• Sensitivity to CPV at T2K is roughly comparable to T2KK, a more aggressive setting

T2KK T2K


More ambitiou

s approach

es

J-PARC beam at Tokai


2.5 degrees off-axis beam @ Kamioka

L=1000 km

OA1.5

OA1.0

L=1100 km

Rubbia@T2KK WS


658km0.8deg. Off-axis

シナリオ２

δ=0°

νeSpectrum

Beam νe

Background

CP Measurement Potential

NP08, arXiv:0804.2111

δ=90°

δ=180° δ=270°

sin22θ13=0.03,Normal Hierarchy

3s

• 100kton Lq. Ar TPC @ 658km• n beam only. 1.66 MW

sin22q13

d

A.Rubbia et al. presented by T. Nakaya, June09

Okinoshima

A J-PARC version of BNL strategy


What’s good in T2KK?


T2KK=Tokai-to-Kamioka-Korea

Why don’t you bring one of the 2 tanks to Korea? (@EPP2010)


Original idea: sensitive because dynamism in 2nd oscillation maximum

Ishitsuka-Kajita-HM-Nunokawa 05


Two detector method is powerful


Spectral information solves intrinsic degeneracy

from 1000 page Ishitsuka file

SK momentum resolution ~30 MeV at 1 GeV

T2K T2KK

2 detector method powerful!

Ishitsuka-Kajita-HM-Nunokawa 05


Two-detector setting is powerful

• With the same input parameter and Korean detector of 0.54 Mt the sign-m2 degeneracy is NOT completely resolved

T2KK Korea only

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Latest development

September 14, 2009

F. Dufour, T. Kajita, E. Kearns, K. Okumura, to appear

Another realization of BNL strategy (see also Hagiwara et al.)

Sensitivity to CP and MH


5 + 5 years neutrino anti-neutrino running with 1.66 MW beam (10 2.59×10 21 POT) with 40GeV protons, 2 x 0.27Mton(FV) detector.∗

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CP fraction plot

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F. Dufour, T. Kajita, E. Kearns, K. Okumura, to appear


Robustness matters

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Relative cross section error does matter

• Identical 2 detector setting robust to larger systematic error • It gives conservative lower bounds on sensitivity estimate

of mass hierarchy and CP

Barger et al. 07

T2K II

T2KK


Another issue; matter density profile

Large q13 perturbation theory of n oscillation

• Only known small parameter is e=Dm2

solar/Dm2atm ~ 0.03 various

possibilities


We take the last one, large q13 just below Chooz limit

Large q13 perturbation theory (continued)


~ e1/2 ~ e1

~ e2~ e3/2

Matter density variation


asymmetric baseline

T violation


50% correction to the main term if Im(rn) ~ r0 for L=1000 km, E=2 GeV, r=2.8 g/cm3, s13=0.17, etc. => confuse T violation

See also Akhmedov et al.01


Conclusion

• Some perspectives of future LBL experiments for CP and mass hierarchy are reviewed with an emphasize of North-East Asian perspective

• Emphasis placed on “principle” than numerical results

• Robustness issues addressed• Large q13 perturbation theory is

formulated to address uncertainty in matter density profile

• issue of asymmetric profile

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LBL neutrinos; looking forward to the future Hisakazu Minakata Tokyo Metropolitan University