Breaking Eight-fold Degeneracies in Neutrino CP Violation, Mixing, and Mass Hierarchy

Details Breaking Eight-fold Degeneracies in Neutrino CP Violation, Mixing, and Mass Hierarchy Breaking Eight-fold Degeneracies in Neutrino CP Violation, Mixing, and Mass Hierarchy

2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0112119v1

Phys.Rev.D65:073023,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Revtex (singlespaced), 35 pages, 15 postscript figures, uses psfig.sty

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.073023

We identify three independent two-fold parameter degeneracies (\delta, \theta_{13}), sgn(\delta m^2_{31}) and (\theta_{23}, \pi/2-\theta_{23}) inherent in the usual three-neutrino analysis of long-baseline neutrino experiments, which can lead to as much as an eight-fold degeneracy in the determination of the oscillation parameters. We discuss the implications these degeneracies have for detecting CP violation and present criteria for breaking them. A superbeam facility with a baseline at least as long as the distance between Fermilab and Homestake (1290 km) and a narrow band beam with energy tuned so that the measurements are performed at the first oscillation peak can resolve all the ambiguities other than the (\theta_{23}, \pi/2-\theta_{23}) ambiguity (which can be resolved at a neutrino factory) and a residual (\delta, \pi-\delta) ambiguity. However, whether or not CP violation occurs in the neutrino sector can be ascertained independently of the latter two ambiguities. The (\delta,\pi-\delta) ambiguity can be eliminated by performing a second measurement to which only the \cos\delta terms contribute. The hierarchy of mass eigenstates can be determined at other oscillation peaks only in the most optimistic conditions, making it necessary to use the first oscillation maximum. We show that the degeneracies may severely compromise the ability of the proposed SuperJHF-HyperKamiokande experiment to establish CP violation. In our calculations we use approximate analytic expressions for oscillation probabilitites that agree with numerical solutions with a realistic Earth density profile.

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