Effect of the smaller masssquared difference for the long baseline neutrino experiments.pdfVIP

KIAS-P04045 hep-ph/0411388 Effect of the smaller mass-squared difference for the long base-line neutrino experiments Naotoshi Okamura∗ 5 Korea Institute for Advanced Study 0 0 207-43 Cheongnyangi 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-722, Korea 2 p Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics e † S Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 6 1 2 v Abstract 8 8 3 Usually, neutrino oscillation experiments are analyzed within the two-flavor frame- 1 work which is governed by 1 mass-squared difference and 1 mixing angle. But there 1 4 are 6 parameters, 2 mass-squared differences, 3 mixing angles, and 1 CP phase within 0 the three-flavor framework. In this article, we estimate the effect from the smaller / h p mass-squared difference, the other mixing angles, and the CP phase, which we call - three-flavor effect, for the determination of the mass-squared difference and the mix- p e ing angle from the νµ ’s survival and transition probability with the two-flavor analy- h : sis. It is found that the mass-squared difference from the two-flavor analysis is slightly v i shifted from the larger mass-squared difference by the three-flavor effect. The order X r of magnitude of the three-flavor effect for the mass-squared difference is compara- a ble with that of the expected error for the mass-squared difference of the two-flavor analysis in the future long base-line neutrino oscillation experiments. The CP