Abstract
Determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy using a reactor neutrino experiment at is analyzed. Such a measurement is challenging due to the finite detector resolution, the absolute energy scale calibration, and the degeneracies caused by current experimental uncertainty of . The standard method is compared with a proposed Fourier transformation method. In addition, we show that for such a measurement to succeed, one must understand the nonlinearity of the detector energy scale at the level of a few tenths of percent.
- Received 7 August 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.033005
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