Neutrino parameters from matter effects in $P_{ee}$ at long baselines

Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar; Choubey, Sandhya; Goswami, Srubabati; Raychaudhuri, Amitava

Neutrino parameters from matter effects in $P_{ee}$ at long baselines

Authors

Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar

Choubey, Sandhya

Goswami, Srubabati

Raychaudhuri, Amitava

Description

We show that the earth matter effects in the ${\rm {ν_e \to ν_e}}$ survival probability can be used to cleanly determine the third leptonic mixing angle $θ_{13}$ and the sign of the atmospheric neutrino mass squared difference, $Δm^2_{31}$, using a $β$-beam as a $ν_e$ source.
4 pages, 4 eps figures; comments and references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D