A Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande



Group, Hyper-Kamiokande Working, Abe, K, Aihara, H, Andreopoulos, C ORCID: 0000-0003-2020-8215, Anghel, I, Ariga, A, Ariga, T, Asfandiyarov, R, Askins, M, Back, JJ
et al (show 238 more authors) (2014) A Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande. [Internet Publication]

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Abstract

Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of Hyper-Kamiokande is the study of $CP$ asymmetry in the lepton sector using accelerator neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. In this document, the physics potential of a long baseline neutrino experiment using the Hyper-Kamiokande detector and a neutrino beam from the J-PARC proton synchrotron is presented. The analysis has been updated from the previous Letter of Intent [K. Abe et al., arXiv:1109.3262 [hep-ex]], based on the experience gained from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5 MW $\times$ 10$^7$ sec integrated proton beam power (corresponding to $1.56\times10^{22}$ protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a $2.5$-degree off-axis neutrino beam produced by the J-PARC proton synchrotron, it is expected that the $CP$ phase $\delta_{CP}$ can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of $\delta_{CP}$, and $CP$ violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than $3\,\sigma$ ($5\,\sigma$) for $76%$ ($58%$) of the $\delta_{CP}$ parameter space.

Item Type: Internet Publication
Additional Information: Document submitted to 18th J-PARC PAC meeting in May 2014. 50 pages, 41 figures
Uncontrolled Keywords: physics.ins-det, physics.ins-det, hep-ex, hep-ph
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2016 14:27
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 07:27
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3004069