Physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a J-PARC neutrino beam and Hyper-Kamiokande
K. Abe (University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kamioka Observatory, Kamioka, Japan, University of Tokyo, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan); H. Aihara (University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan, University of Tokyo, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan); C. Andreopoulos (University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool, UK); I. Anghel (Iowa State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ames, IA, USA); A. Ariga (University of Bern, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Bern, Switzerland); et al - Show all 248 authors
Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next-generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of Hyper-Kamiokande is the study of $CP$ asymmetry in the lepton sector using accelerator neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. In this paper, the physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino experiment using the Hyper-Kamiokande detector and a neutrino beam from the J-PARC proton synchrotron is presented. The analysis uses the framework and systematic uncertainties derived from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5 MW $\times 10^7$ s integrated proton beam power (corresponding to $1.56 \times 10^{22}$ protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a $2.5^\circ$ off-axis neutrino beam, it is expected that the leptonic $CP$ phase $\delta _{CP}$ can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of $\delta _{CP}$ , and $CP$ violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than $3\,\sigma$ ( $5\,\sigma$ ) for $76{\%}$ ( $58{\%}$ ) of the ${\delta _{CP}}$ parameter space. Using both $\nu _e$ appearance and $\nu _\mu$ disappearance data, the expected 1 $\sigma$ uncertainty of $\sin ^2\theta _{23}$ is 0.015(0.006) for $\sin ^2\theta _{23}=0.5(0.45)$ .