Neutrino Mass Ordering -- Circumventing the Challenges using Synergy between T2HK and JUNO

Abstract

One of the major open problems of neutrino physics is MO (mass ordering). We discuss the prospects of measuring MO with two under-construction experiments T2HK and JUNO. JUNO alone is expected to measure MO with greater than $3\sigma$ significance as long as certain experimental challenges are met. In particular, JUNO needs better than 3$\%$ energy resolution for MO measurement. On the other hand, T2HK has rather poor prospects at measuring the MO, especially for certain ranges of the CP violating parameter ${\delta }_{\mathrm{CP}}$, posing a major drawback for T2HK. In this letter we show that the synergy between JUNO and T2HK will bring two-fold advantage. Firstly, the synergy between the two experiments helps us determine the MO at a very high significance. With the baseline set-up of the two experiments, we have a greater than $9\sigma$ determination of the MO for all values of ${\delta }_{\mathrm{CP}}$. Secondly, the synergy also allows us to relax the constraints on the two experiments. We show that JUNO, could perform extremely well even for energy resolution of 5$\%$, while for T2HK the MO problem with "bad" values of ${\delta }_{\mathrm{CP}}$ goes away. The MO sensitivity for the combined analysis is expected to be greater than $6\sigma$ for all values of ${\delta }_{\mathrm{CP}}$ and with just 5$\%$ energy resolution for JUNO.

arXiv comment6 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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