Long baseline neutrino experiments Takashi Kobayashi a Institute for Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, 305-0801, Japan Abstract.Results of on-going long baseline experiments and future projects are reviewed. 1 Introduction The evidence of neutrino oscillation in the atmospheric neutrinos discovered by Super-Kamiokande (SK) [1] is being confirmed by the first accelerator-based long baseline (LBL) oscillation experiment, K2K [2]. Also, implications of neutrino oscillation in the solar neutrino [3] is now confirmed by a reactor-based LBL experiment, KamLAND [4]. Existence of finite neutrino masses and large flavor mixing becomes almost unambiguous. They are the first observations which are contrary to the standard model. Next step in LBL experiments along this direction is to establish (or refute) the framework of 3-flavor mixing. One of the most important things for that purpose is to discover the only remaining oscillation mode ν µ → ν e or finite mixing angle θ 13 . The mixing angle is known to be much smaller than the other two mixing angle [?]. Discovery and precise measurement of θ 13 would provide a key to explore the physics at high energy scale. It is also important to measure oscillation parameters precisely by checking the spectrum shape after oscillation. Deviation from the predicted oscillation pattern would im- ply non-standard model physics, such as extra dimension. Furthermore, firm confirmation of ν µ → ν τ oscillation by (1)direct observation of ν τ or (2) obser- vation of neutral current interactions are also important. This would provide a constraint on sterile neutrino. Once the finite θ 13 is found, search for the CP violation in the lepton sector becomes realistic. Since the large mixing angle region is found to be the solution of the solar neutrino problem, the ex- pected size of the CP asymmetry is within the reach of the next generation LBL experiments provided that θ 13 is not extremely small. Discovery of the CP violation in the lepton sector would be a big step to understand matter anti-matter asymmetry in the universe. One or two order of magnitude higher intensity neutrino beam than current on-going experiment is necessary to achieve the purposes. Several high statistics LBL experiments with conventional horn-focused ν µ beam produced by a MW- class proton accelerator are being proposed. Such attempts are recently called “superbeam” experiments, when it is contrasted from LBL experiments with neutrino factory. In my presentation, the proposed superbeam experiments and their physics potential are summarized. a e-mail: [email protected]
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Long baseline neutrino experiments
Takashi Kobayashi a
Institute for Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator ResearchOrganization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, 305-0801, Japan
Abstract.Results of on-going long baseline experiments and future projects arereviewed.
1 Introduction
The evidence of neutrino oscillation in the atmospheric neutrinos discoveredby Super-Kamiokande (SK) [1] is being confirmed by the first accelerator-basedlong baseline (LBL) oscillation experiment, K2K [2]. Also, implications ofneutrino oscillation in the solar neutrino [3] is now confirmed by a reactor-basedLBL experiment, KamLAND [4]. Existence of finite neutrino masses and largeflavor mixing becomes almost unambiguous. They are the first observationswhich are contrary to the standard model.
Next step in LBL experiments along this direction is to establish (or refute)the framework of 3-flavor mixing. One of the most important things for thatpurpose is to discover the only remaining oscillation mode νµ → νe or finitemixing angle θ13. The mixing angle is known to be much smaller than theother two mixing angle [?]. Discovery and precise measurement of θ13 wouldprovide a key to explore the physics at high energy scale. It is also importantto measure oscillation parameters precisely by checking the spectrum shapeafter oscillation. Deviation from the predicted oscillation pattern would im-ply non-standard model physics, such as extra dimension. Furthermore, firmconfirmation of νµ → ντ oscillation by (1)direct observation of ντ or (2) obser-vation of neutral current interactions are also important. This would providea constraint on sterile neutrino. Once the finite θ13 is found, search for theCP violation in the lepton sector becomes realistic. Since the large mixingangle region is found to be the solution of the solar neutrino problem, the ex-pected size of the CP asymmetry is within the reach of the next generationLBL experiments provided that θ13 is not extremely small. Discovery of theCP violation in the lepton sector would be a big step to understand matteranti-matter asymmetry in the universe.
One or two order of magnitude higher intensity neutrino beam than currenton-going experiment is necessary to achieve the purposes. Several high statisticsLBL experiments with conventional horn-focused νµ beam produced by a MW-class proton accelerator are being proposed. Such attempts are recently called“superbeam” experiments, when it is contrasted from LBL experiments withneutrino factory. In my presentation, the proposed superbeam experimentsand their physics potential are summarized.
First generation LBL experimens set their primary goal to confirm the evi-dence of neturino oscillation observed in atmospheric neutrino. There are threeexperiments, K2K in Japan, MINOS in US and ICARUS/OPERA in Europe.Only running experiment is K2K which started data taking in 1999, and otherexperiments are under construction.
2.1 K2K experiment
The K2K (KEK-to-Kamioka) experiment is the first long baseline exper-iment [16], in which νµ beam is produced at KEK and detected by Super-Kamiokande (SK) at 250 km from KEK. The purposes are to confirm νµ dis-apperance (νµs go to something else) and search for νµ → νe oscillation (νe
appearance) at mass square difference ∆m2 suggested by atmospheric neutrinoosbservation.
The neutrino beam of K2K is almost pure νµ beam generated from decayof mesons (mainly pions) produced by irradiating proton beam on a target.Proton beam extracted from 12GeV proton synchrotron hits the target onceevery 2.2 s in 1.1 µs width and number of protons in a spill is 6 × 1012. Thebeam power is about 5 kW. The positively charged particles produced in thetarget are focused toward the direction of SK by a pair of pulsed magnetichorns [20] and are lead into a decay volume of 200m long. They decay intoneutrinos during flight in the decay volume. The purity of νµ is 98% and meanenergy of the neutrinos is 1.3 GeV. In order to measure properties of neutrinobeam just after production, neutrino detectors are placed in KEK site, 300 mfrom the production target. They are 1 kton water Cherenkov detector (1KT)and find grained detector.
The far detector, SK, is a ring-imaging water Cherenkov detector, whichis 50 kton water tank, optically sepearated into two parts; innder detector of32 kton and outer detector. The innder detector is viewed by 11,460 20inchPMT’s uniformely deployed on the wall of the inner detector. Fiducial massused in the analysis is 22.5 kton. In Nov.? 2001, about ?000 PMTs are brokenby shock wave propagation triggered by an inprosion of one PMT. In the fallof 2002, SK is reconstruced with about half PMT density.
The K2K experiment started physics run in June 1999. By the summerof 2001, 5.6 × 1019 protons were delivered to the production target. Afterthe accident of SK, K2K resumed in Dec. 2002 and 2.5 × 1019 more POTwere delivered by the end of June 2003. The period before and after the SKaccident are called K2K-I and K2K-II, respectively. The results based on theK2K-I data which corresponds to 4.8 × 1019 analyzed POT, are presented.
Signature of the neutrino oscillation of νµ disappearance mode is a suppres-sion in the number of events and a characteristic spectrum distortion. Number
of events fully contained (FC) in the inner detector and distribution of neutrinoenergies for single ring µ-like (1Rµ) events are used to probe neutrino oscilla-tion. The neutrino energy of the 1Rµ events are reconstructed by using theobserved momentum of the muon, assuming charged-current (CC) quasi-elastic(QE) interactions (νµ + n → µ + p), and neglecting Fermi momentum:
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Observed number of FC events in K2K-I is 56 and the Erecν distribution for
29 1Rµ events are ploted by points in Fig. 1. Expected number of FC events
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without oscillation is estimated to be 80.1+6.2−5.4 events and expected spectrum
without oscillation is ploted by boxes in Fig. 1 (normalized to observation byarea). The oscillation parameters which describe the observation best are foundto be at (sin2 2θ, ∆m2) = (1.0, 2.8× 10−3 eV2). Expected number of events atthe best parameters is 54.2 events which is in agreement with the observationwithin statistical error. The best fit spectrum is drawn by histogram in Fig. 1.The observed and the best fit spectra agree well. Probability that the deficit inthe number of events and spectrum distortion are due to statistical fluctuationinstead of neutrino oscillation is found to be less than 1%. Allowed region forthe oscillation parameters are evaluated and shown in Fig. 2 (left). The allowedregion is consistent with the one from atmospheric neutrino observation by SK.At maximum mixing, sin2 2θ = 1, the mass squared difference is constrained tobe within ∆m2 = 1.5 ∼ 3.9 × 10−3 eV2 at 90% confidence level. Deficit of theevents and spectrum distortion indicate consistent oscillation parameter regionas demonstrated in Fig. 2 (right).
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Electron neutrino appearance at same ∆m2 region as atmospheric neutrinooscillation is searched for for the first time. Electron neutrino events are selectedby requiring fully contained, single electron-like (showering) ring with visibleenergy greater than 100MeV and no decay electron associated. Efficiency to se-lect CC interactions from the oscillated νe is 57 % for ∆m2 = 2.8×10−3eV2. Toselect electron-like event, both the Cherenkov ring pattern and opening angleare required to be consistent with an electron event. PID parameters are definedbased on the ring pattern and opening angle and the distribusions of the param-eters for data and MC are plotted in Fig. 3 (left). Distributions of data are con-
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oscillations as a function of the effective ∆m2µe at 90% C.L. (solid line) and 99 % C.L. (dashed
line). The area to the right of each curve is excluded. Dotted line shows the limit at 90%C.L. by CHOOZ assuming sin2 2θµe = 1
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Figure 4: (Left) MINOS overview. (Right) Expected energy spectra for νµ charged currentinteractions.
sistent with the oscillated νµ MC with (sin22θ, ∆m2) = (1.0, 2.8 × 10−3eV2),the best-fit parameters of the νµ disappearance analysis in K2K [?].
One event is selected as an electron candidate, while expected backgroundis estimated to be 2.4 ± 0.6 events. Out of 2.4 events, 2.0 ± 0.6 events comesfrom νµ interaction and the rest from beam νe contamination. Contribution ofthe NCπ0 production to the νµ background is 87%. A constraint on neutrinooscillations from νµ to νe is obtained by comparing the observed number ofelectron events with the expectation assuming oscillations. Fig. ?? shows thelimit on sin2 2θµe as a function of ∆m2
µe. Neutrino oscillations from νµ to νe
are excluded at 90% C.L. for sin2 2θµe > 0.15 at ∆m2µe = 2.8 × 10−3eV2.
2.2 Coming experiments: MINOS and CNGS-OPERA/ICARUS
MINOS is a long baseline neutrino experiment in US which in now underconstruction aiming to start experiment in the beginning of 2005. The νµ beamis produced at FNAL using 120 GeV Main Injector and detected by a detectorplaced in the Soudan mine after 735 km travel as in Fig. 4 The main purposes ofthe experiment is to investigate the νµ disappearance phenomenon in detail at∆m2 region suggested by atmospheric neutrino osbservation, and to determinethe oscillation parameters precisely (or refute the oscillation scenario).
The beam is conventional horn-focused wide-band beam. By choosing dif-ferent setting of the distance between target, 1st horn, and 2nd horn, neutrinoenergy regions can be selected as shown in Fig. 4. The far detector in theSoudan mine is a manetized Iron and scintillator sandwich detector with Ironthickness of 2.5 cm. To measure properties of neutrinos just after production,near detector with the same configuration as the far detector is placed. Thefiducial masses of the near and far detectors are 5,400 ton and 980 ton, respec-tively. Expected number of charged current interactions is about 2,500/yr inthe fiducial volume of the far detector. The far detector construction finishedon July 10, 2003, and the first protons on target is expected in December 2004.
Figure 5: (Left) MINOS sensitivity on νµ disappearance. (Right) Sensitivities of MINOSand ICARUS on νe appearance.
The CERN neutrino beam to Gran Sasso (CNGS) is a project to producehigh energy νµ beam at CERN and send toward Gran Sasso laboratry at 732 kmfrom CERN. The neutrino beam is horn-focused wide-band νµ beam producedby hitting 400-GeV proton beam from CERN SPS on a target. Expectedspectrum is shown in Fig. ?? and average energy is ∼ 17 GeV. Expected numberof protons on target is 6.8 × 1019.
Two detectors are planned to be placed in Gran Sasso, namely, OPERA andICARUS. The goal of these experimetns is to detect ντ interactions which ischanged from νµ due to oscillation (ντ appearance). The OPERA detectorconsists of 206k bricks of Emulsion Cloud Chamber, which is a sandwich of1-mm thick Pb plates and emulsions. Total mass of the ECC is 1.7 kton.The ECC part is followed by a magnetic spectrometer with electronic trackingsystem. The τ events from CC ντ interactions are identified the event topology,a kink in a track caused by τ → µ decay. Teh ICARUS detector is 3 kton liquidArgon time projection chamber. The τ events are selected using distributionsof kinematic variables. A 300 ton prototype was constructed and performancesare tested.
Expected sensitivities of MINOS, ICARUS and OPERA for νµ disappearanceand νe appearance are summarized in Fig. 5 In 5 years of MINOS, precision ofthe oscillation parameters reaches about 5% and 2 × 10−3 eV2 for sin2 2θ and∆m2, respectively. Expected number of signal and background events for theντ appearance search are 17.2 and 1.06 for the OPERA experiment and 11.9and 0.7 events for ICARUS experiment (1.5 kton fiducial) in 5 years of runningat the ∆m2 = 2.5 × 10−3 eV2.
3 The second generation super-beam experiments
3.1 Project in Japan: T2K experiment
In Japan, construction of a MW proton accelerator complex, now called as
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J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex), is going on at JAERI-Tokai site aiming the completion by March, 2008 [7]. The T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) experiment is a next generation long baseline neutrino oscillationexperiment in which νµ beam is produced using the 50 GeV proton synchrotronin J-PARC and sent to SK with 295 km flight distance (Fig. 6). At the firstphase of the project, the power of the 50 GeV PS is 0.75 MW and Super-Kamiokande will be used as a far detector. The intensity of the neutrino beamis about 2 orders of magnitudes higher than K2K. In the future, PS upgradeupto 4 MW and 1-Mt “Hyper-Kamiokande” [9] are envisaged. The goals ofthe first phase are discovery of νe appearance and the precision measurementsof oscillation parameters in νµ disappearance. Also, νµ → ντ or νµ → νs
oscillation can be tested by measuring number of NC interactions in SK.
One of the special features of the experiment is the first application of “off-axis” beam which can produce low energy high intensity νµ beam with ad-justable sharp peak in the energy spectrum [?]. The position of the peak willbe tunned at energy of oscillation maximum to maximize the sensitivity. Theexpected νµ spectrum at SK without oscillation is plotted in Fig. 6. The νe toνµ flux ratio is as small as 0.2% at the peak energy of νµ spectrum. Expectednumbers of interactions at SK with 2◦ off-axis are about 3000 for CC interac-tions in fiducial volume of 22.5 kt in 1 year. In order to monitor the neutrinobeam and to predict the flux and spectrum at SK, muon monitor behind thebeam dump and front neutrino detector at 280 m from the production targetwill be installed.
The budget for the T2K experiment including beamline and the near detec-tor is approved by govenment and facility construction started in April 2004.Construction will take 5 years and the first proton beam on target is expectedin the beginning of 2009.
3.2 Projects in US
Recently, possibilities to upgrade the power of the beam [12] and to con-struct an “off-axis” detector [13] are being seriously discussed to conduct next-generation high-sensitivity LBL experiments.
The intensity upgrade is an idea to replace the current 8-GeV booster by arapid-cycling high-intensity 16-GeV synchrotron. It increases intensity in theMI by a factor of four, i.e. to 1.6 MW [12]. In the long term, upgrade to4 MW is also envisaged by adding a 600 MeV linac and a 3 GeV pre-booster.Improvement in the precision of NuMI experiment is expected by the upgrade.
New OA detector(s) are proposed to exploit the full potential of the NuMIneutrino beam and to complement the MINOS experiment [13]. The maingoal of the proposal in the first phase is to search for νe appearance with adetector of the order of 20-kt fiducial mass. In the second phase, with theincreased beam intensity by the Proton Driver and increase of the detectormass by about factor of five, higher sensitivity search of νe appearance or ameasurement of CP violation would be possible.
The expected spectra at off axes are shown in Fig. 7. The possible sites for
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the detector is being investigated. The distances from FNAL to the candidatesites ranges from 600 to 900 km. Low-Z tracking calorimeter is mainly beingstudied as a far detector while the other options, water-Cherenkov or liq. ArTPC are still kept. In order to achieve good electron identification, samplingfrequency of 1/4 ∼ 1/3 X0 (radiation length) is being discussed in the caseof the tracking calorimeter. The expected energy resolution is estimated tobe about 16% for the energy range 1 ∼ 3 GeV by Monte-Carlo simulationassuming 1/3X0 sampling.
There is another interest to conduct a (very) long baseline experiment usinga proposed beam from BNL [14]. The neutrino beam is produced by 28 GeVproton beam from Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at BNL and is
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detected by huge water Cherenkov detector of 500 kt or more at more than2000 km. The primary purposes are precise determination of oscillation pa-rameters, search for νe appearance and CP violation. This idea consists of (1)Intensity upgrade of AGS from 0.14 MW to 1 MW, (2) Construction of newneutrino beam line (3) Construction of underground water Cherenkov detectorof 0.5Mt fiducial mass. The locations of BNL and possible detector sites andexpected neutrino spectra are shown in Fig. 8. One special feature of this ex-periment is that the neutrino energy and the distance are chozen so that thesecond oscillation maximum can be measured. This gives the sensitivity on so-lar parameters, θ12 and ∆m2
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3.3 Projects in Europe
In Europe, there is an idea of superbeam LBL experiment in which theneutrino beam is produced by Super Proton Linac (SPL) and detected by adetector at Modane laboratory in Furejus tunnel, 130 km from CERN [15].The proposed SPL is a 2.2 GeV linac with 4 MW beam power operated at75-Hz repetition rate and 1.5 × 1014 protons/pulse. The neutrino beam isa conventional wide-band beam and the expected neutrino spectrum at thedetector site is plotted in Fig. 9. The expected neutrino spectrum ranges. 500 MeV which matches with the oscillation maximum of ∼ 300 MeV at∆m2 = 3 × 10−3 eV2. Currently two types of detector technology are underconsideration, i.e., water Cherenkov detector of SK type and liquid scintillaterdetector of LSND/MiniBooNE type. The detector fiducial mass is supposed tobe 40 kt.
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3.4 Summary of experiments
Current and planned (superbeam) LBL experiments are summarized in Ta-ble 1. As can be seen in the L/Losci column, neutrino energy and the baselinelength in most of the superbeam experiments are chosen so that the neutrinoenergy matches at the oscillation maximum. Expected number of interactionsin the superbeam experiments is more than 2 order of magnitude higher thancurrent on-going experiment, K2K.
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3.5 Sensitivities
The proposed experiments with a superbeam have similar sensitivity for physics.Here, the physics sensitivities in the JHF-Kamioka project is mainly presentedin detail. The results are based on full detector simulation of already existingfar detector, SK.
3.6 νµ disappearance
The precision measurement of oscillation parameters θ23 and ∆m223 is done
by precisely measuring the spectrum distortion in νµ disappearance mode. InSK, fully contained events with single µ-like ring are selected to enhance the νµ
CCqe events. In Fig. ??, expected distributions of reconstructed Eν are shownfor both without and with oscillation.
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Significant deficit in peak region is seen even without subtraction of back-ground from non-qe events. The expected precision of the oscillation parame-ters are 1% for sin2 2θ23 and . 10−4 eV2 for ∆m2
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3.7 νe appearance
The signature of νe appearance in νµ beam is a single electromagnetic showerfrom νe CC interaction. Major sources of the background are beam νe con-tamination and νµ NC π0 production. Combination of narrow spectrum andEν window cut greatly helps to reject both of the background, since the back-ground show broad “reconstructed” Eν distribution while that for the signalconcentrates around the original peak of the νµ spectrum.
In the JHF-Kamioka project, a dedicated analysis algorithm is developed toreject the π0 background as much as possible [8]. The expected reconstructedEν distribution after 5 years of exposure is shown in Fig. ??. The oscillationparameters of ∆m2 = 3 × 10−3 eV2 and sin2 2θ13 = 0.1 are assumed. A clearappearance peak is seen at the oscillation maximum of Eν ∼0.75 GeV. Alsoshown in Fig. ?? is 90%C.L. contours for 5 year exposure assuming 10% system-atic uncertainty in background subtraction. The sensitivity of sin2 2θ13 = 0.006
at 90% confidence level can be achieved in five years of operation. If sin2 2θ13
is larger than 0.018, then discovery of νe appearance is possible with the sig-nificance greater than 3σ.
3.8 CP violation and matter effect
All the future superbeam experiments aim to search for CP violation inthe neutrino sector. Matter effect also produces the difference and mimics theCP violation effect. The size the matter effect increases linearly with neutrinoenergy. Therefore, in order to be sensitive only on pure CP violation, thelower energy is better. In Fig. ??, the size of the matter effect is also drawn.At 1st oscillation maximum in 295 km case, the size of the matter effect ismuch smaller than the CP violation effect, but in the case of 730 km, thosesizes becomes comparable. This, in turn, means that, at higher energies, therewould be a chance to decide the sign of ∆m2 through the matter effect bycombining with the lower energy measurements. The expected sensitivity onCP violation in 2nd phase JHF-Kamioka project is plotted in Fig. 10. If θ13 isof the order of 0.01 or larger, the CP violation phase δ can be explored downto ∼ 20◦.
4 Even more future: Beta beam and Neutrino factory
5 Summary
Acknowledgments
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