%0 Generic %1 mahony2019target %A Mahony, Constance %A Leistedt, Boris %A Peiris, Hiranya V. %A Braden, Jonathan %A Joachimi, Benjamin %A Korn, Andreas %A Cremonesi, Linda %A Nichol, Ryan %D 2019 %K tifr %T Target Neutrino Mass Precision for Determining the Neutrino Hierarchy %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04331 %X Recent works combining neutrino oscillation and cosmological data to determine the neutrino hierarchy found a range of odds in favour of the normal hierarchy. These results arise from differing approaches to incorporating prior knowledge about neutrinos. We develop a hierarchy-agnostic prior and show that the hierarchy cannot be conclusively determined with current data. The determination of the hierarchy is limited by the neutrino mass scale $\Sigma_\nu$ measurement. We obtain a target precision of $\sigma(\Sigma_\nu) = 0.014$ eV for conclusively establishing the normal hierarchy with future data.

@misc{mahony2019target, abstract = {Recent works combining neutrino oscillation and cosmological data to determine the neutrino hierarchy found a range of odds in favour of the normal hierarchy. These results arise from differing approaches to incorporating prior knowledge about neutrinos. We develop a hierarchy-agnostic prior and show that the hierarchy cannot be conclusively determined with current data. The determination of the hierarchy is limited by the neutrino mass scale $\Sigma_{\nu}$ measurement. We obtain a target precision of $\sigma(\Sigma_{\nu}) = 0.014$ eV for conclusively establishing the normal hierarchy with future data.}, added-at = {2019-07-11T06:09:47.000+0200}, author = {Mahony, Constance and Leistedt, Boris and Peiris, Hiranya V. and Braden, Jonathan and Joachimi, Benjamin and Korn, Andreas and Cremonesi, Linda and Nichol, Ryan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24df45ee0ef7e51fa1f5d47eb98e931ce/citekhatri}, description = {Target Neutrino Mass Precision for Determining the Neutrino Hierarchy}, interhash = {505057ee6e7a0aa33d53cf8fc5120d17}, intrahash = {4df45ee0ef7e51fa1f5d47eb98e931ce}, keywords = {tifr}, note = {cite arxiv:1907.04331Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Comments welcome}, timestamp = {2019-07-11T06:09:47.000+0200}, title = {Target Neutrino Mass Precision for Determining the Neutrino Hierarchy}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04331}, year = 2019 }