Study of the performance of a large scale water-Cherenkov detector (MEMPHYS)

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作者
Agostino, Luca [1 ]
Buizza-Avanzini, Margherita [1 ]
Dracos, Marcos [2 ]
Duchesneau, Dominique [3 ]
Marafini, Michela [1 ]
Mezzetto, Mauro [4 ]
Mosca, Luigi [5 ]
Patzak, Thomas [1 ]
Tonazzo, Alessandra [1 ]
Vassilopoulos, Nikolaos [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS, IN2P3, APC,CEA,Irfu,Obs Paris, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[2] Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, IN2P3, IPHC, F-67037 Strasbourg, France
[3] Univ Savoie, CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[5] Lab Souterrain Modane, F-73500 Modane, France
关键词
neutrino experiments; neutrino properties; neutrino detectors; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/01/024
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
MEMPHYS (MEgaton Mass PHYSics) is a proposed large-scale water Cherenkov experiment to be performed deep underground. It is dedicated to nucleon decay searches, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as neutrinos from a future Super-Beam or Beta-Beam to measure the CP violating phase in the leptonic sector and the mass hierarchy. A full simulation of the detector has been performed to evaluate its performance for beam physics. The results are given in terms of "migration matrices" of reconstructed versus true neutrino energy, taking into account all the experimental effects.
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