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

被引:77
作者
Abe, K. [55 ]
Adam, J. [39 ]
Aihara, H. [30 ,54 ]
Akiri, T. [11 ]
Andreopoulos, C. [52 ,53 ]
Aoki, S. [31 ]
Ariga, A. [2 ]
Ariga, T. [2 ]
Assylbekov, S. [9 ]
Autiero, D. [36 ]
Barbi, M. [46 ]
Barker, G. J. [63 ]
Barr, G. [42 ]
Bass, M. [9 ]
Batkiewicz, M. [15 ]
Bay, F. [13 ]
Bentham, S. W. [33 ]
Berardi, V. [21 ,22 ]
Berger, B. E. [9 ]
Berkman, S. [4 ]
Bertram, I. [33 ]
Bhadra, S. [67 ]
Blaszczyk, F. D. M. [35 ]
Blondel, A. [14 ]
Bojechko, C. [60 ]
Bordoni, S. [17 ]
Boyd, S. B. [63 ]
Brailsford, D. [20 ]
Bravar, A. [14 ]
Bronner, C. [32 ]
Buchanan, N. [9 ]
Calland, R. G. [34 ]
Caravaca Rodriguez, J. [17 ]
Cartwright, S. L. [50 ]
Castillo, R. [17 ]
Catanesi, M. G. [21 ,22 ]
Cervera, A. [18 ,19 ]
Cherdack, D. [9 ]
Christodoulou, G. [34 ]
Clifton, A. [9 ]
Coleman, J. [34 ]
Coleman, S. J. [8 ]
Collazuol, G. [25 ,26 ]
Connolly, K. [64 ]
Cremonesi, L. [45 ]
Curioni, A. [13 ]
Dabrowska, A. [15 ]
Danko, I. [44 ]
Das, R. [9 ]
Davis, S. [64 ]
机构
[1] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[2] Univ Bern, High Energy Phys Lab, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[3] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[4] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
[5] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA USA
[6] CEA Saclay, IRFU, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[7] Chonnam Natl Univ, Inst Univ & Elementary Particles, Kwangju, South Korea
[8] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[9] Colorado State Univ, Dept Phys, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[10] Dongshin Univ, Dept Phys, Naju, South Korea
[11] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27706 USA
[12] Ecole Polytech, CNRS IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, Palaiseau, France
[13] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Particle Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[14] Univ Geneva, Sect Phys, DPNC, Geneva, Switzerland
[15] H Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys PAN, Krakow, Poland
[16] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
[17] IFAE, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
[18] CSIC, IFIC, Valencia, Spain
[19] Univ Valencia, Valencia, Spain
[20] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Phys, London, England
[21] INFN Sez Bari, Dipartimento Interuniv Fis, Bari, Italy
[22] Univ & Politecn Bari, Bari, Italy
[23] INFN Sez Napoli, Dipartimento Fis, Naples, Italy
[24] Univ Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
[25] INFN Sez Padova, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[26] Univ Padua, Padua, Italy
[27] INFN Sez Roma, Rome, Italy
[28] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[29] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[30] Univ Tokyo, Kavli Inst Phys & Math Universe WPI, Todai Inst Adv Study, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
[31] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 657, Japan
[32] Kyoto Univ, Dept Phys, Kyoto 606, Japan
[33] Univ Lancaster, Dept Phys, Lancaster, England
[34] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[35] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[36] Univ Lyon 1, IPN Lyon IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[37] Miyagi Univ Educ, Dept Phys, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
[38] Natl Ctr Nucl Res, Warsaw, Poland
[39] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[40] Okayama Univ, Dept Phys, Okayama 700, Japan
[41] Osaka City Univ, Dept Phys, Osaka 558, Japan
[42] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[43] Univ Paris Diderot, UPMC, CNRS IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris, France
[44] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[45] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Phys & Astron, London, England
[46] Univ Regina, Dept Phys, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
[47] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[48] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 2, Aachen, Germany
[49] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Seoul, South Korea
[50] Univ Sheffield, Dept Phys & Astron, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
High energy physics - Neutrons - Parameter estimation;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211803
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
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 x 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 sin(2) (theta(23)) = 0.514 +/- 0.082 and mass splitting vertical bar Delta m(32)(2)vertical bar = 2.44(-0.15)(+0.17) x 10(-3) eV(2)/c(4). Our result corresponds to the maximal oscillation disappearance probability.
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