Prospects and synergies between future atmospheric and long-baseline experiments
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In this talk we will discuss the physics reach of the atmospheric neutrino data collected by a future megaton-class neutrino detector. First we will discuss the potentialities of atmospheric neutrinos on general basis, presenting our results in the form of neutrino oscillograms of the Earth: contour plots in the neutrino energy--nadir angle plane. In this context we will analyze in detail the various signatures related to theta_13, to the neutrino mass hierarchy, to the octant of theta_23 and to the delta_CP phase which appear for different values of the neutrino energy and baseline. Then we will consider concrete experimental setups, showing that synergic effects exist between atmospheric and long-baseline neutrino data: the combination of the two data sets is much more powerful than the simple sum of the sensitivity of each individual data sample.
5 pages, pdfLaTeX file using PoS class, 3 figures included. Proceedings of the "10th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams" (NuFact'08), Valencia, Spain, June 30 - July 5, 2008
5 pages, pdfLaTeX file using PoS class, 3 figures included. Proceedings of the "10th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams" (NuFact'08), Valencia, Spain, June 30 - July 5, 2008