Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress and future prospects of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, highlighting recent results, upcoming projects, and R&D efforts aimed at understanding neutrino properties and CP violation.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental results and discusses upcoming and future experiments in long-baseline neutrino oscillation research.

Findings

Confirmation of neutrino flavor change

High-precision measurement of neutrino mixing matrix

Potential to probe CP violation and neutrino mass hierarchy

Abstract

During the past decade, long-baseline neutrino experiments played a fundamental role in confirming neutrino flavor change and in measuring the neutrino mixing matrix with high precision. This role will be amplified with the next generation of experiments, which will begin probing the possibility of CP violation in the leptonic sector and possibly pin down the neutrino mass hierarchy. An account of the most recent results from the MINOS experiment is presented, along with the earlier measurement from the K2K experiment. The next generation projects, T2K and NOvA, are described and their current status, schedule and physics reach discussed. Finally, we report on future efforts, currently in the R&D stage, such as the LBNE and T2KK projects.