Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam



Abe, K, Abgrall, N, Aihara, H, Akiri, T, Albert, JB, Andreopoulos, C ORCID: 0000-0003-2020-8215, Aoki, S, Ariga, A, Ariga, T, Assylbekov, S
et al (show 348 more authors) (2013) Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 88 (3). 032002-. ISSN 2470-0010, 2470-0029

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Abstract

The T2K Collaboration reports evidence for electron neutrino appearance at the atmospheric mass splitting, |Δm322|≈2.4×10-3 eV2. An excess of electron neutrino interactions over background is observed from a muon neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV at the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector 295 km from the beam's origin. Signal and background predictions are constrained by data from near detectors located 280 m from the neutrino production target. We observe 11 electron neutrino candidate events at the SK detector when a background of 3.3±0.4(syst) events is expected. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with a p value of 0.0009 (3.1σ), and a fit assuming ν<inf>μ</inf>→ν<inf>e</inf> oscillations with sinâ¡22θ<inf>23</inf>=1, δ<inf>CP</inf>=0 and |Δm322|=2.4×10-3 eV2 yields sinâ¡22θ<inf>13</inf>=0.088-0.039+0. 049(stat+syst). © 2013 American Physical Society.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 43 pages, 41 figures
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2016 16:14
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2026 10:02
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.032002
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3000047
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