Sensitivity of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment to neutrino oscillation parameters using accelerator neutrinos



Abe, K, Afif, MT, Laamara, R Ahl, Aihara, H, Ajmi, A, Akutsu, R, Alarakia-Charles, H, Alekseev, I, Hakim, Y Alj, Monsalve, S Alonso
et al (show 550 more authors) (2026) Sensitivity of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment to neutrino oscillation parameters using accelerator neutrinos EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 86 (2). 170-. ISSN 1434-6044, 1434-6052

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Abstract

This paper presents the expected sensitivity to the neutrino oscillation parameters of the Hyper-Kamiokande long-baseline program. The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, currently under construction in Japan, will measure the oscillations of accelerator-produced neutrinos with thousands of selected events per sample: this corresponds to an increase of statistics of a factor 25–100 with respect to recent results from the currently-running long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan, T2K. In the most favorable scenario we will achieve the discovery of Charge-Parity (CP) violation in neutrino oscillation at 5σ C.L. in less than 3 years. With 10 years of data-taking, and assuming a neutrino : antineutrino beam running ratio of 1:3, a CP violation discovery at 5σ C.L. is possible for more than 60% of the actual values of the CP-violating phase, δCP. Moreover, we will measure δCP with a precision ranging from 20∘, in the case of maximal CP violation, to 6∘, in the case of CP conservation. We aim to achieve a 0.5% resolution on the Δm322 parameter, and a resolution between 3% and 0.5% on the sin2θ23 parameter, depending on its true value. These results are obtained by extending the analysis methods of T2K with dedicated tuning to take into account the Hyper-Kamiokande design: the larger far detector, the more powerful beam, the upgraded near detector ND280, and the planned additional Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 51 Physical Sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Science & Engineering
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences > Physics
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2026 11:45
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2026 08:09
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14938-9
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3197454
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