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# Erratum: Reactor measurement of θ13 and its complementarity to long-baseline experiments [ Phys. Rev. D 68, 033017 (2003)]

• ##### Osamu Yasuda
Physical Review D (Impact Factor: 4.69). 09/2004; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.059901
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT A possibility to measure $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ using reactor neutrinos is examined in detail. It is shown that the sensitivity $\sin^22\theta_{13}>0.02$ can be reached with 20 ton-year data by placing identical CHOOZ-like detectors at near and far distances from a giant nuclear power plant whose total thermal energy is 24.3 ${\text{GW}_{\text{th}}}$. It is emphasized that this measurement is free from the parameter degeneracies which occur in accelerator appearance experiments, and therefore the reactor measurement plays a role complementary to accelerator experiments. It is also shown that the reactor measurement may be able to resolve the degeneracy in $\theta_{23}$ if $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ and $\cos^22\theta_{23}$ are relatively large. Comment: 25 pages, 8 figures, uses revtex4 and graphicx. Several modifications added to make the text easier to understand. Two more figures added. To be published in Phys. Rev. D

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