Type: Article
Publication Date: 2005-09-07
Citations: 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.72.053003
We explore the physics potential of the NuMI beamline with a detector located 10 km off axis at a distant site (810 km). We study the sensitivity to ${sin}^{2}2{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{13}$ and to the $CP$-violating parameter $\mathrm{sin}\ensuremath{\delta}$ as well as the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy by exploiting the ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e}$ and ${\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{e}$ appearance channels. The results are illustrated for three different experimental setups to quantify the benefits of increased detector sizes, proton luminosities, and ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e}$ detection efficiencies.