scholarly journals Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
J. Adam ◽  
H. Aihara ◽  
T. Akiri ◽  
C. Andreopoulos ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
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N. Akhlaq ◽  
R. Akutsu ◽  
A. Ali ◽  
...  

Abstract The electron (anti-)neutrino component of the T2K neutrino beam constitutes the largest background in the measurement of electron (anti-)neutrino appearance at the far detector. The electron neutrino scattering is measured directly with the T2K off-axis near detector, ND280. The selection of the electron (anti-)neutrino events in the plastic scintillator target from both neutrino and anti-neutrino mode beams is discussed in this paper. The flux integrated single differential charged-current inclusive electron (anti-)neutrino cross-sections, dσ/dp and dσ/d cos(θ), and the total cross-sections in a limited phase-space in momentum and scattering angle (p > 300 MeV/c and θ ≤ 45°) are measured using a binned maximum likelihood fit and compared to the neutrino Monte Carlo generator predictions, resulting in good agreement.


2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
J. Adam ◽  
H. Aihara ◽  
T. Akiri ◽  
C. Andreopoulos ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
N. Abgrall ◽  
H. Aihara ◽  
T. Akiri ◽  
J. B. Albert ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Smith

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab to measure electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance between the Near Detector, located at Fermilab, and the Far Detector, located at Ash River, Minnesota. The NuMI beam has recently reached and surpassed the 700 kW power benchmark. NOvA’s primary physics goals include precision measurements of oscillation parameters, such as [Formula: see text] and the atmospheric mass-squared splitting, along with probes of the mass hierarchy and of the CP violating phase. This talk will present the latest NOvA results, based on a neutrino beam exposure equivalent to [Formula: see text] protons-on-target.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
M. G. Catanesi

This paper presents thestate of the artof the T2K experiment and the measurements prospects for the incoming years. After a brief description of the experiment, the most recent results will be illustrated. The observation of the electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam and the new high-precision measurements of the mixing angleθ13by the reactor experiments have led to a reevaluation of the expected sensitivity to the oscillation parameters, relative to what was given in the original T2K proposal. For this reason the new physics potential of T2K for7.8×1021p.o.t. and for data exposure 3 times larger than that expected to be reachable with accelerator and beam line upgrades in 2026 before the start of operation of the next generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments will also be described in the text. In particular the last challenging scenario opens the door to the possibility of obtaining, under some conditions, a 3σmeasurement excludingsin⁡(δCP)=0.


2011 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
N. Abgrall ◽  
Y. Ajima ◽  
H. Aihara ◽  
J. B. Albert ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 178-214
Author(s):  
A. Bettini

The Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the INFN has given important contributions to the discovery of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations with experiments both on electron neutrinos from the Sun and muon neutrinos indirectly produced by cosmic rays interactions in the atmosphere. Other experiments in the laboratory give the best limits on electron neutrino effective Majorana mass with two different isotopes. We appear to have entered a new physics domain in which the study of neutrinos may lead us to discover new phenomena, corresponding to energy scales by much higher than those of the present accelerators. Underground laboratories are showing their relevance complementary to the colliders for the advance of basic physics. The physics program at the Gran Sasso Laboratory that we are defining will be focussed on neutrino physics with a complementary set of experiments on the muon neutrino beam from CERN (CNGS project), on solar neutrinos, on atmospheric neutrinos and on neutrinos from Supernova explosion. The relevant thermonuclear cross-sections will be measured. The Majorana vs. Dirac nature of electron neutrinos will be explored with the search for neutrino-less double beta decays in different isotopes.


Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Christian Farnese

The 760-ton liquid argon ICARUS T600 detector performed a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories, studying in particular neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN. This detector has been moved in 2017 to Fermilab after a significant overhauling and will be exposed soon to the Booster Neutrino Beam acting as the far station to search for sterile neutrinos within the SBN program. The contribution addresses the developed methods and the results of an analysis to identify and reconstruct atmospheric neutrino interactions collected by ICARUS T600 in the underground run at LNGS. Despite the limited statistics, this search demonstrates the excellent quality of the detector reconstruction and the feasibility of an automatic search for the electron neutrino CC interactions in the sub-GeV range, as required for the study of the BNB neutrinos at FNAL.


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