JIGSAW 2007

Joint Indo-German School And Workshop 2007

Neutrinos in Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology

12-23 February 2007 - Mumbai, India

Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

Patrick Huber

Course Contents

Lecture 1 - Simulating an experiment
+ long baseline overview
+ source -- oscillation -- detection
+ detector properties
+ AEDL

Lecture 2 - Analysing simulated data
+ statistics & data analysis
+ systematic errors<> + definition of sensitivity
+ simple sensitivity calculation

Lecture 3 - Degeneracies
+ 8-fold degeneracy
+ definition of sensitivity with multiple solutions
+ techniques to find degeneracies
+ sensitivity calculation

Prerequisites

Elementary quantum mechanics
S. Choubey's lectures
A bit of C programming

Required Reading

Globes manual