The Physics Potential of a Neutrino Beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA

Jürgen Brunner (1)

1 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille

The Protvino accelerator facility located in the Moscow region, Russia, is in a good position to offer a rich experimental research program in the field of neutrino physics. Of particular interest is the possibility to direct a neutrino beam from Protvino towards the KM3NeT/ORCA detector which is currently under construction in the Mediterranean sea 40 km offshore Toulon, France. Such an experiment, nicknamed P2O (Protvino-to-ORCA), would yield an unparalleled sensitivity to matter effects in the Earth, allowing for the determination of the neutrino mass ordering with a high level of certainty due to its baseline of 2595 km after only few years of running time at a modest beam intensity up to 100 kW. A second phase of the experiment comprizes a further intensity upgrade of the accelerator complex and a significant densification of the ORCA detector. This would allow for a competitive and complementary measurement of the leptonic CP-violating Dirac phase with a Mton detector but avoiding underground excavation costs.

Mots clés: talk: Dubna 2018/10/02; neutrino/mu: secondary beam; neutrino: mass; accelerator: upgrade; matter: effect; CP: violation; KM3NeT; sensitivity; costs; proposed experiment

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

Jürgen Brunner. The Physics Potential of a Neutrino Beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA. 8th Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope Workshop, Oct 2018, Dubna, Russia. pp.04001, ⟨10.1051/epjconf/201920704001⟩. ⟨hal-02144284⟩