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In this work, we explored the hierarchy, octant and CP violation sensitivities of P2O experiment in its three proposed configurations in the standard three-flavor scenario and in the presence of an extra light sterile neutrino. We have compared them with the DUNE experiment results. We have shown that the near detectors are crucial for the study of the sterile neutrinos, as for the far detectors, the oscillation frequency is averaged out due to the rapid oscillation of the sterile mass squared difference. We found that water Cherenkov type near detectors are pretty insensitive to sterile oscillation parameters like $\theta_{1 4}$, that is why we preferred to use liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) type near detector (DUNE like ND) for all three configurations of P2O. Super-ORCA detector configuration of P2O is better at probing $10 eV^{2}$ sterile neutrinos, whereas DUNE is better at investigating $1 eV^{2}$ sterile neutrinos. We found that the Super-ORCA configuration of P2O gives the best sensitivity to hierarchy, octant and CP violation studies.
| Session | Neutrino Physics |
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