T violation at a future neutrino factory

19 Feb 2025, 15:00
20m
seminar hall (Building 3)

seminar hall

Building 3

KEK, Tsukuba campus

Speaker

Sho Sugama

Description

We study the possibility of measuring T (time reversal) violation in a future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. By assuming a neutrino factory as a staging scenario of a muon collider at the J-PARC site, we find that the ν_e → ν_μ oscillation probabilities can be measured with a good accuracy at the Hyper-Kamiokande detector. By comparing with the probability of the time-reversal process, ν_μ → ν_e, measured at the T2K/T2HK experiments, one can determine the CP phase δ in the neutrino mixing matrix if | sin(δ)| is large enough. The determination of δ can be made with poor knowledge of the matter density of the earth as T violation is almost insensitive to the matter effects. The comparison of CP and T-violation measurements, `a la the CPT theorem, provides us with a non-trivial check of the three neutrino paradigm based on the quantum field theory.

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