Sensitivity study of Protvino to ORCA (P2O) experiment: effect of antineutrino run, background and systematics

Abstract There is a proposal to send a neutrino beam from the Protvino accelerator complex located in Russia to the detector facility called ‘Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss’ (ORCA) in the Mediterranean sea to study neutrino oscillation. This is called the P2O experiment which will ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The European Physical Journal C
Main Authors: Sandhya Choubey, Monojit Ghosh, Dipyaman Pramanik
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019
Subjects:
Astrophysics
QB460-466
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
QC770-798
Orca
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7064-1
https://doaj.org/article/03687b4ea4744a1c898f14433f91e5ec
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Summary:Abstract There is a proposal to send a neutrino beam from the Protvino accelerator complex located in Russia to the detector facility called ‘Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss’ (ORCA) in the Mediterranean sea to study neutrino oscillation. This is called the P2O experiment which will have a baseline of 2588 km. In this paper we carry out an sensitivity study to extract the best possible physics sensitivity of the P2O experiment. In particular, we study the effect of antineutrino runs, the role of background as well as the impact of controlling the systematic uncertainties vis-a-vis the statistics.

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