CP Trajectory Diagram; A tool for pictorial representation of CP and matter effects in neutrino oscillations

Abstract

We introduce "CP trajectory diagram in bi-probability space" as a powerful tool for pictorial representation of the genuine CP and the matter effects in neutrino oscillations. Existence of the correlated ambiguity in a determination of CP violating phase \delta and the sign of \Delta m^2_{13} is uncovered. Principles of tuning beam energy for a given baseline distance are proposed to resolve the ambiguity and to maximize the CP-odd effect. We finally point out, quite contrary to what is usually believed, that the ambiguity may be resolved with 50 % chance in the super-JHF experiment despite its relatively short baseline of 300 km.

Comments: 6 pages with 2 postscript figures. Talk presented at The 3rd International Workshop on Neutrino Factories Based on Muon Storage Rings (NuFACT01), Tsukuba, Japan, May 24-30, 2001