Exploring the three flavor effects with future superbeams using liquid argon detectors

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Recent measurement of a moderately large value of theta13 signifies an important breakthrough in establishing the standard three flavor oscillation picture of neutrinos.

• It has provided an opportunity to explore the sub-dominant three flavor effects in present and future long-baseline experiments.
• In this paper, we perform a comparative study of the physics reach of two future superbeam facilities, LBNE and LBNO in their first phases of run, to resolve the issues of neutrino mass hierarchy, octant of theta23, and leptonic CP violation.
• We also find that the sensitivity of these future facilities can be improved significantly by adding the projected data from T2K and NOvA.