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Past exam of the particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2022 6 d vii Solution by
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In vacuum the electron-flavour survival probability depends only on and the mass-squared differences. Complex conjugation of the lepton mixing matrix therefore leaves it unchanged:Thus a reactor disappearance measurement cannot search for the intrinsic CP violation phase in the standard three-neutrino model. Sensitivity to that phase calls for suitable appearance channels and, usually, comparison of neutrino and antineutrino beams. Matter can produce differences between propagation of neutrinos and antineutrinos; these are not by themselves intrinsic CP violation, and are small for the proposed short reactor baseline.
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