Exploring atmospheric neutrino oscillations at ESSnuSB


Aguilar J., Anastasopoulos M., Baussan E., Bhattacharyya A., Bignami A., Blennow M., ...More

Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.2024, no.10, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 2024 Issue: 10
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep10(2024)187
  • Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Keywords: Flavour Physics, Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments), Oscillation
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This study provides an analysis of atmospheric neutrino oscillations at the ESSnuSB far detector facility. The prospects of the two cylindrical Water Cherenkov detectors with a total fiducial mass of 540 kt are investigated over 10 years of data taking in the standard three-flavor oscillation scenario. We present the confidence intervals for the determination of mass ordering, θ23 octant as well as for the precisions on sin2θ23 and Δm312. It is shown that mass ordering can be resolved by 3σ CL (5σ CL) after 4 years (10 years) regardless of the true neutrino mass ordering. Correspondingly, the wrong θ23 octant could be excluded by 3σ CL after 4 years (8 years) in the case where the true neutrino mass ordering is normal ordering (inverted ordering). The results presented in this work are complementary to the accelerator neutrino program in the ESSnuSB project.