Physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a J-PARC neutrino beam and Hyper-Kamiokande


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 paper, 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 uses the framework and systematic uncertainties derived from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5MW ×10<sup>7</sup>s integrated proton beam power (corresponding to 1.56 × 10<sup>22</sup>protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a 2.5° off-axis neutrino beam, it is expected that the leptonic CP phase δ<inf>CP</inf>can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of δ<inf>CP</inf>, and CP violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than 3 σ (5 σ) for 76% (58%) of the δ<inf>CP</inf>parameter space. Using both ν<inf>e</inf>appearance and νμ disappearance data, the expected 1 σ uncertainty of sin<sup>2</sup>Θ<inf>23</inf>is 0.015(0.006) for sin<sup>2</sup>Θ<inf>23</inf>= 0.5(0.45).

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2015

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