CP violation in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments

Abstract

We define a difference $D_{\rm CP}$ of the neutrino oscillation probability differences with matter effect for the CP-conjugate channels, divided by neutrino beam energy, taken between the two baselines $L = L_1$ and $L =L_2$ with $L_1/E_1 = L_2/E_2$, where $E_1$ and $E_2$ are the neutrino energy for the experiment with $L_1$ and $L_2$, respectively. The quantity $D_{\rm CP}$ doesn't contain the matter effect to the first order in $aL/2E$, $a$ representing the matter effect. We show the behavior of $D_{\rm CP}$ with $L_1 = 300$ km fixed and $L_2$ variable in the three-neutrino model.