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Neutrino oscillation parameter sensitivity in future long-baseline experiments

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dc.contributor.authorBass, Matthew, author
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Robert J., advisor
dc.contributor.authorHarton, John, committee member
dc.contributor.authorToki, Walter, committee member
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Wen, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:57:11Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:57:11Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe study of neutrino interactions and propagation has produced evidence for physics beyond the standard model and promises to continue to shed light on rare phenomena. Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations in the late 1990s there have been rapid advances in establishing the three flavor paradigm of neutrino oscillations. The 2012 discovery of a large value for the last unmeasured missing angle has opened the way for future experiments to search for charge-parity symmetry violation in the lepton sector. This thesis presents an analysis of the future sensitivity to neutrino oscillations in the three flavor paradigm for the T2K, NOνA, LBNE, and T2HK experiments. The theory of the three flavor paradigm is explained and the methods to use these theoretical predictions to design long baseline neutrino experiments are described. The sensitivity to the oscillation parameters for each experiment is presented with a particular focus on the search for CP violation and the measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy. The variations of these sensitivities with statistical considerations and experimental design optimizations taken into account are explored. The effects of systematic uncertainties in the neutrino flux, interaction, and detection predictions are also considered by incorporating more advanced simulations inputs from the LBNE experiment.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierBass_colostate_0053A_12681.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/88412
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectlong-baseline
dc.subjectsensitivity
dc.subjectoscillations
dc.subjectneutrino
dc.titleNeutrino oscillation parameter sensitivity in future long-baseline experiments
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thesis.degree.disciplinePhysics
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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