Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from Muon Neutrino Disappearance with an Off-Axis Beam



Abe, K, Adam, J, Aihara, H, Akiri, T, Andreopoulos, C ORCID: 0000-0003-2020-8215, Aoki, S, Ariga, A, Ariga, T, Assylbekov, S, Autiero, D
et al (show 333 more authors) (2013) Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from Muon Neutrino Disappearance with an Off-Axis Beam. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 111 (21). 211803-.

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Abstract

The T2K Collaboration reports a precision measurement of muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV. Near detector measurements are used to constrain the neutrino flux and cross section parameters. The Super-Kamiokande far detector, which is 295 km downstream of the neutrino production target, collected data corresponding to 3.01×10(20) protons on target. In the absence of neutrino oscillations, 205±17 (syst) events are expected to be detected while only 58 muon neutrino event candidates are observed. A fit to the neutrino rate and energy spectrum, assuming three neutrino flavors and normal mass hierarchy yields a best-fit mixing angle sin2(θ23)=0.514±0.082 and mass splitting |Δm(32)(2)|=2.44(-0.15)(+0.17)×10(-3) eV2/c4. Our result corresponds to the maximal oscillation disappearance probability.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 8 pages, 4 figures, revised version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Uncontrolled Keywords: T2K Collaboration
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2016 14:44
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2022 16:25
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211803
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3000080