(Direct) Measurement of theta-13

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental measurements of the neutrino mixing angle theta-13, highlighting its importance for leptonic CP violation and neutrino mass hierarchy determination, with focus on T2K, MINOS, RENO, and Double Chooz results.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent measurements of theta-13, emphasizing the significance of a non-zero value for neutrino physics.

Findings

Non-zero theta-13 measurements reported by multiple experiments

Theta-13's role in enabling leptonic CP violation studies

Facilitation of neutrino mass hierarchy determination

Abstract

A review of recent measurements of the neutrino mixing angle theta-13 is presented. In the standard parametrisation of three-neutrino mixing this is the last of the three mixing angles to be determined, and is known to be the smallest. The angle parametrises the overlap |<nu_3|nu_e>|^2, a non-zero value of which is necessary for leptonic CP violation driven by the KM mechanism. A non-zero overlap also makes experimental determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy much easier. Several experiments have recently reported non-zero measurements of theta-13; this presentation concentrates on T2K, MINOS, RENO and Double Chooz.