2013

Quantifying the sensitivity of oscillation experiments to the neutrino mass ordering

Blennow, Mattias, Coloma, Pilar, Huber, Patrick et al.

Understand

Determining the type of the neutrino mass ordering (normal versus inverted) is one of the most important open questions in neutrino physics.

In this paper we clarify the statistical interpretation of sensitivity calculations for this measurement.
We employ standard frequentist methods of hypothesis testing in order to precisely define terms like the median sensitivity of an experiment.
We consider a test statistic $T$ which in a certain limit will be normal distributed.

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