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Report number	arXiv:1110.1402
Title	Long baseline Super-Beam experiments in Europe within LAGUNA
Author(s)	Coloma, Pilar (Madrid, Autonoma U.) ; Li, Tracey (Valencia U., IFIC) ; Pascoli, Silvia (Durham U., IPPP)
Publication	2011
Imprint	10 Oct 2011
Note	Comments: Contribution to NUFACT 11, XIIIth International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams, 1-6 August 2011, CERN and University of Geneva (Submitted to IOP conference series). 4 pages, 2 figures
In:	J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 408 (2013) 012036
In:	13th Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Beta-beams, Geneva, Switzerland, 1 - 6 Aug 2011, pp.012036
DOI	10.1088/1742-6596/408/1/012036
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	LAGUNA
Abstract	We explore the physics reach of several possible configurations for a Super-Beam experiment in Europe, focusing on the possibilities of discovering $\theta_{13}$, CP violation in the leptonic sector and the ordering of neutrino mass eigenstates. We consider the three different detector technologies: Water \v{C}erenkov, Liquid Argon and Liquid Scintillator, and seven possible sites in Europe which would be able to host such a detector underground. The distances to these sites from CERN, where the beam would be originated, go from 130 km to 2300 km. The neutrino flux is optimized in each case as to match the first oscillation peak for each of the baselines under consideration. We also study the impact of several experimental factors in the performance of each detector technology. These include the reconstruction efficiencies for quasi-elastic events, the rejection efficiencies for the neutral-current backgrounds, the ratio between running times in neutrino and antineutrino modes and the systematic uncertainties on the signal and backgrounds, among others.
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