Neutrino Factories and the "Magic" Baseline

Abstract

We show that for a neutrino factory baseline of $L\sim 7300km-7600km$ a ``clean'' measurement of ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$ becomes possible, which is almost unaffected by parameter degeneracies. We call this baseline "magic" baseline, because its length only depends on the matter density profile. For a complete analysis, we demonstrate that the combination of the magic baseline with a baseline of 3000 km is the ideal solution to perform equally well for the ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$, sign of $\Delta m_{31}^2$, and CP violation sensitivities. Especially, this combination can very successfully resolve parameter degeneracies even below ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}<10^{-4}$.

Minor changes, final version to appear in PRD, 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX

References in corpus (17)

• First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance
• Limits on Neutrino Oscillations from the CHOOZ Experiment
• Golden measurements at a neutrino factory
• Breaking Eight-fold Degeneracies in Neutrino CP Violation, Mixing, and Mass Hierarchy
• Superbeams versus Neutrino Factories
• Exploring Neutrino Mixing with Low Energy Superbeams
• On the measurement of leptonic CP violation
• Analytic Approximations for Three Neutrino Oscillation Parameters and Probabilities in Matter
• Tests of three-flavor mixing in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments
• The silver channel at the Neutrino Factory
• Resolving the Solar Neutrino Problem with KamLAND
• Superbeams plus Neutrino Factory: the golden path to leptonic CP violation
• Combining first KamLAND results with solar neutrino data
• Synergies between the first-generation JHF-SK and NuMI superbeam experiments
• Matter effects in long baseline experiments, the flavor content of the heaviest (or lightest) neutrino and the sign of Delta m^2
• On the Effect of theta_{13} on the Determination of Solar Oscillation Parameters at KamLAND
• Impact of two mass-scale oscillations on the analysis of atmospheric and reactor neutrino data

Cited by in corpus (91)

• Phenomenology with Massive Neutrinos
• Simulation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments with GLoBES
• Series expansions for three-flavor neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter
• Physics at a future Neutrino Factory and super-beam facility
• Leptonic CP violation
• Prospects of accelerator and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments for the coming ten years
• Determination of the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy at an Intermediate Baseline
• Neutrino Propagation in Matter
• Probing non-unitary mixing and CP-violation at a Neutrino Factory
• Optimization of a neutrino factory oscillation experiment
• Quantization of Fermionic Fields with Two Mass States in the First Order Formalism
• Resolving parameter degeneracies in long-baseline experiments by atmospheric neutrino data
• Mass Hierarchy Determination via future Atmospheric Neutrino Detectors
• Earth Matter Effects at Very Long Baselines and the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy
• Neutrino factory optimization for non-standard interactions
• Neutrino Mixing Sum Rules and Oscillation Experiments
• Probing Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions with Neutrino Factories
• A question of hierarchy: matter effects with atmospheric neutrinos and anti-neutrinos
• Perturbation Theory of Neutrino Oscillation with Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions
• Physics and optimization of beta-beams: From low to very high gamma
• CP violation in neutrino oscillations and new physics
• Analytical Approximation of the Neutrino Oscillation Matter Effects at large ${\theta }_{13}$
• On the importance of the 1-loop finite corrections to seesaw neutrino masses
• From parameter space constraints to the precision determination of the leptonic Dirac CP phase
• Neutrino mass hierarchy and ${\theta }_{13}$ with a magic baseline beta-beam experiment
• The role of matter density uncertainties in the analysis of future neutrino factory experiments
• Clone flow analysis for a theory inspired Neutrino Experiment planning
• Non-Standard Interactions at a Neutrino Factory: Correlations and CP violation
• Which long-baseline neutrino experiments are preferable?
• Neutrino tomography - Learning about the Earth's interior using the propagation of neutrinos
• Resolving CP Violation by Standard and Nonstandard Interactions and Parameter Degeneracy in Neutrino Oscillations
• Exploration prospects of a long baseline Beta Beam neutrino experiment with an iron calorimeter detector
• Systematic Parameter Space Search of Extended Quark-Lepton Complementarity
• Physics with near detectors at a neutrino factory
• Sterile neutrinos beyond LSND at the Neutrino Factory
• ${\nu }_{\mu }$ disappearance at the SPL, T2K-I, NO$\nu$A and the Neutrino Factory
• Optimization of the Neutrino Factory, revisited
• Detectors and flux instrumentation for future neutrino facilities
• Neutrino oscillation probabilities: Sensitivity to parameters
• Physics with a very long neutrino factory baseline
• Probing the absolute density of the Earth's core using a vertical neutrino beam
• Optimizing the greenfield Beta-beam
• Resonant Dirac leptogenesis on throats
• The mass hierarchy with atmospheric neutrinos at INO
• Unraveling neutrino parameters with a magical beta-beam experiment at INO
• The discovery channel at the Neutrino Factory: ${\nu }_{\mu }\to {\nu }_{\tau }$ pointing to sterile neutrinos
• Can R-parity violating supersymmetry be seen in long baseline beta-beam experiments?
• New plots and parameter degeneracies in neutrino oscillations
• Probing the leptonic Dirac CP-violating phase in neutrino oscillation experiments
• Effect of tau neutrino contribution to muon signals at neutrino factories
• Testing non-standard CP violation in neutrino propagation
• On in situ Determination of Earth Matter Density in Neutrino Factory
• What would it take to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy if ${\theta }_{13}$ were too small?
• The $\tau$-contamination of the golden muon sample at the Neutrino Factory
• Magical properties of 2540 Km baseline Superbeam Experiment
• ${\theta }_{13}$, $\delta$ and the neutrino mass hierarchy at a $\gamma =350$ double baseline Li/B $\beta$-Beam
• Approximative two-flavor framework for neutrino oscillations with nonstandard interactions
• 2540 km: Bimagic baseline for neutrino oscillation parameters
• Neutrino hierarchy from CP-blind observables with high density magnetized detectors
• Optimized Two-Baseline Beta-Beam Experiment
• Exceptional Sensitivity to Neutrino Parameters with a Two Baseline Beta-Beam Set-up
• EURONU WP6 2009 yearly report: Update of the physics potential of Nufact, superbeams and betabeams
• Direct test of the MSW effect by the solar appearance term in beam experiments
• Neutrino factory in stages: Low energy, high energy, off-axis
• Experimental results on neutrino oscillations
• Perturbing exactly tri-bimaximal neutrino mixings with charged lepton mass matrices
• Understanding the performance of the low energy neutrino factory: the dependence on baseline distance and stored-muon energy
• Neutrino oscillations: what is magic about the "magic" baseline?
• Effective Neutrino Mixing and Oscillations in Dense Matter
• Neutrino Factory Superbeam
• Analytic treatment of 3-flavor neutrino oscillation and decay in matter
• Neutrino Beams From Electron Capture at High Gamma
• Optimization of the baseline and the parent muon energy for a low energy neutrino factory
• Lectures on neutrino phenomenology
• Future Precision Neutrino Oscillation Experiments and Theoretical Implications
• Physics Potential of a 2540 Km Baseline Superbeam Experiment
• Future neutrino oscillation facilities: physics priorities and open issues
• Measuring Earth Matter Density and Testing the MSW Theory
• Geographical issues and physics applications of "very" long neutrino factory baselines
• Mass Hierarchy Determination for ${\theta }_{13}=0$ and Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Dual fast-cycling superconducting synchrotron at Fermilab and a possible path to the future of high energy particle physics
• Neutrino Superbeams and the Magic Baseline
• The impact of hierarchy upon the values of neutrino mixing parameters
• Revising the Solution of the Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Degeneracies at Neutrino Factories
• Probing Non-Standard Neutrino Physics at Neutrino Factory and T2KK
• Determining neutrino mass hierarchy from electron disappearance at a Low energy neutrino factory
• Probing Lorentz Invariance Violation with Neutrino Factories
• Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments with Two-Detector Setup
• Long baseline neutrino oscillations: Theoretical aspects
• Neutrino oscillation physics with a FNAL proton driver
• Three-flavor analysis of long-baseline experiments