From parameter space constraints to the precision determination of the leptonic Dirac CP phase

Abstract

We discuss the precision determination of the leptonic Dirac CP phase ${\delta }_{CP}$ in neutrino oscillation experiments, where we apply the concept of ``CP coverage''. We demonstrate that this approach carries more information than a conventional CP violation measurement, since it also describes the exclusion of parameter regions. This will be very useful for next-generation long baseline experiments where for sizable ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$ first constraints on ${\delta }_{CP}$ can be obtained. As the most sophisticated experimental setup, we analyze neutrino factories, where we illustrate the major difficulties in their analysis. In addition, we compare their potential to the one of superbeam upgrades and next-generation experiments, which also includes a discussion of synergy effects. We find a strong dependence on the yet unknown true values of ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$ and ${\delta }_{CP}$, as well as a strong, non-Gaussian dependence on the confidence level. A systematic understanding of the complicated parameter dependence will be given. In addition, it is shown that comparisons of experiments and synergy discussions do in general not allow for an unbiased judgment if they are only performed at selected points in parameter space. Therefore, we present our results in dependence of the yet unknown true values of ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$ and ${\delta }_{CP}$. Finally we show that for ${\delta }_{CP}$ precision measurements there exist simple strategies including superbeams, reactor experiments, superbeam upgrades, and neutrino factories, where the crucial discriminator is ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}\sim 10^{-2}$.

32 pages, 9 figures

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