Masses and Mixings from Neutrino Beams pointing to Neutrino Telescopes

Abstract

We discuss the potential to determine leading oscillation parameters, the value and the sign of \Delta m^2_{31}, as well as the magnitude of \sin^2 2\theta_{13} using a conventional wide band neutrino beam pointing to water or ice Cherenkov neutrino detectors known as ``Neutrino Telescopes''. We find that precision measurements of \Delta m^2_{31} and \theta_{23} are possible and that, even though it is not possible to discriminate between charges in the detector, there is a remarkably good sensitivity to the mixing angle \theta_{13} and the sign of \Delta m^2_{31}.