Study of the performance of a large scale water-Cherenkov detector (MEMPHYS)

Abstract

MEMPHYS (MEgaton Mass PHYSics) is a proposed large-scale water Cherenkov\nexperiment to be performed deep underground. It is dedicated to nucleon decay\nsearches, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well\nas neutrinos from a future Super-Beam or Beta-Beam to measure the CP violating\nphase in the leptonic sector and the mass hierarchy. A full simulation of the\ndetector has been performed to evaluate its performance for beam physics. The\nresults are given in terms of "Migration Matrices" of reconstructed versus true\nneutrino energy, taking into account all the experimental effects.\n