Physics potential of the Fermilab NuMI beamline

2005/05/31 by Olga Mena, Stephen Parke · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.72.053003

published as Phys.Rev.D72:053003,2005 · 23 pages, 12 figures

arxiv created 2005/07/25 · openalex publication_date 2005/09/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

We explore the physics potential of the NuMI beamline with a detector located 10 km off axis at a distant site (810 km). We study the sensitivity to sin²2\ensuremathθ₁₃ and to the CP-violating parameter sin\ensuremathδ as well as the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy by exploiting the \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ\ensuremath→\ensuremathν_e and \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ\ensuremath→\ensuremathν_e appearance channels. The results are illustrated for three different experimental setups to quantify the benefits of increased detector sizes, proton luminosities, and \ensuremathν_e detection efficiencies.

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