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The presence of non-unitary neutrino mixing can affect the measurement of the three-neutrino leptonic Dirac CP phase and hamper efforts to probe CP violation due to degeneracies of the extra non-unitary CP phase with the standard CP phase. We study the effect of including non-unitarity on probing CP violation with the long-baseline experiments NOνA, T2K and DUNE. We analyze the effect of non-unitary mixing at the level of oscillation probabilities associated with the relevant baselines, and present the CP violation sensitivity for the individual experiments and their combination. Our results show that there is an improvement in the CP violation sensitivity of the combination compared to the individual experiments.
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Dutta, D., Ghoshal, P. Probing CP violation with T2K, NOνA and DUNE in the presence of non-unitarity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 110 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)110
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