Direct test of the MSW effect by the solar appearance term in beam experiments

Details Direct test of the MSW effect by the solar appearance term in beam experiments Direct test of the MSW effect by the solar appearance term in beam experiments

2004-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0411309v2

Phys.Lett. B613 (2005) 67-73

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Minor changes, references updated; somewhat shorter version appeared in Phys. Lett. B; 9 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2005.02.062

We discuss if one can verify the MSW effect in neutrino oscillations at a high confidence level in long-baseline experiments. We demonstrate that for long enough baselines at neutrino factories, the matter effect sensitivity is, as opposed to the mass hierarchy sensitivity, not suppressed by $\sin^2 2 \theta_{13}$ because it is driven by the solar oscillations in the appearance probability. Furthermore, we show that for the parameter independent direct verification of the MSW effect at long-baseline experiments, a neutrino factory with a baseline of at least 6000 km is needed. For superbeams, we do not find a $5\sigma$ discovery potential of the MSW effect independent of $\sin^2 2 \theta_{13}$. We finally summarize different methods to test the MSW effect.

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