The {}-contamination of the golden muon sample at the Neutrino Factory

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2011)095MaRDI QIDQ407160zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Donini, J. J. Gómez Cadenas, D. Meloni

Publication date 29 August 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2275

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelneutrino physicsCP violation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We study the contribution of $u_{e}o{u}_{a}uoauomu$ transitions to the wrong-sign muon sample of the {em golden} channel of the Neutrino Factory. Muons from tau decays are not really a background, since they contain information from the oscillation signal, and represent a small fraction of the sample. However, if not properly handled they introduce serious systematic error, in particular if the detector/analysis are sensitive to muons of low energy. This systematic effect is particularly troublesome for large $het{a}_{13}geq{1}^{c}irc$ and prevents the use of the Neutrino Factory as a precision facility for large $het{a}_{13}$. Such systematic error disappears if the tau contribution to the golden muon sample is taken into account. The fact that the fluxes of the Neutrino Factory are exactly calculable permits the knowledge of the tau sample due to the $u_{e}o{u}_{a}u$ oscillation. We then compute the contribution to the muon sample arising from this sample {em in terms of the apparent muon energy}. This requires the computation of a migration matrix $M_{ij}$ which describes the contributions of the tau neutrinos of a given energy $E_i$, to the muon neutrinos of an apparent energy $E_j$. We demonstrate that applying $M_{ij}$ to the data permits the full correction of the otherwise intolerable systematic error.

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• Parameter degeneracy in neutrino oscillation -- solution network and structural overview
• Remarks on the Unified Model of Elementary Particles

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