Precise measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter θ23 from muon neutrino disappearance in an off-axis beam.
Physical review letters 112:18 (2014) 181801
Authors:
K Abe, J Adam, H Aihara, T Akiri, C Andreopoulos, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Ariga, S Assylbekov, D Autiero, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, M Bass, M Batkiewicz, F Bay, SW Bentham, V Berardi, BE Berger, S Berkman, I Bertram, S Bhadra, FDM Blaszczyk, A Blondel, C Bojechko, S Bordoni, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, C Bronner, N Buchanan, RG Calland, J Caravaca Rodríguez, SL Cartwright, R Castillo, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, A Clifton, J Coleman, SJ Coleman, G Collazuol, K Connolly, L Cremonesi, A Dabrowska, I Danko, R Das, S Davis, P de Perio, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, SR Dennis, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, S Di Luise, O Drapier, T Duboyski, K Duffy, F Dufour, J Dumarchez, S Dytman, M Dziewiecki, S Emery, A Ereditato, L Escudero, AJ Finch, L Floetotto, M Friend, Y Fujii, Y Fukuda, AP Furmanski, V Galymov, S Giffin, C Giganti, K Gilje, D Goeldi, T Golan, M Gonin, N Grant, D Gudin, DR Hadley, A Haesler, MD Haigh, P Hamilton, D Hansen, T Hara, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, C Hearty, RL Helmer, M Hierholzer, J Hignight, A Hillairet, A Himmel, T Hiraki, S Hirota, J Holeczek, S Horikawa, K Huang, AK Ichikawa, K Ieki, M Ieva, M Ikeda, J Imber, J Insler, TJ Irvine, T Ishida, T Ishii, SJ Ives, E Iwai, K Iyogi, A Izmaylov, A Jacob, B Jamieson, RA Johnson, JH Jo, P Jonsson, CK Jung, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, Y Kanazawa, D Karlen, I Karpikov, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, D Kielczewska, T Kikawa, A Kilinski, J Kim, J Kisiel, P Kitching, T Kobayashi, L Koch, A Kolaceke, A Konaka, LL Kormos, A Korzenev, K Koseki, Y Koshio, I Kreslo, W Kropp, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, S Kumaratunga, R Kurjata, T Kutter, J Lagoda, K Laihem, I Lamont, M Laveder, M Lawe, M Lazos, KP Lee, T Lindner, C Lister, RP Litchfield, A Longhin, L Ludovici, M Macaire, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, AD Marino, J Marteau, JF Martin, T Maruyama, J Marzec, EL Mathie, V Matveev, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, M McCarthy, N McCauley, KS McFarland, C McGrew, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, P Mijakowski, CA Miller, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, A Missert, M Miura, L Monfregola, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, A Murakami, M Murdoch, S Murphy, J Myslik, T Nagasaki, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, T Nakai, K Nakamura, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, D Naples, C Nielsen, M Nirkko, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, HM O'Keeffe, R Ohta, K Okumura, T Okusawa, W Oryszczak, SM Oser, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, J Palomino, V Paolone, D Payne, O Perevozchikov, JD Perkin, Y Petrov, L Pickard, ES Pinzon Guerra, C Pistillo, P Plonski, E Poplawska, B Popov, M Posiadala, J-M Poutissou, R Poutissou, P Przewlocki, B Quilain, E Radicioni, PN Ratoff, M Ravonel, MAM Rayner, A Redij, M Reeves, E Reinherz-Aronis, F Retiere, A Robert, PA Rodrigues, P Rojas, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, D Ruterbories, R Sacco, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, F Sato, E Scantamburlo, K Scholberg, S Schoppmann, J Schwehr, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, M Shiozawa, S Short, Y Shustrov, P Sinclair, B Smith, RJ Smith, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, M Sorel, L Southwell, P Stamoulis, J Steinmann, B Still, Y Suda, A Suzuki, K Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, T Szeglowski, R Tacik, M Tada, S Takahashi, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, HA Tanaka, MM Tanaka, D Terhorst, R Terri, LF Thompson, A Thorley, S Tobayama, W Toki, T Tomura, Y Totsuka, C Touramanis, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, K Ueno, A Vacheret, M Vagins, G Vasseur, T Wachala, AV Waldron, CW Walter, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, RJ Wilkes, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, Z Williamson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, T Wongjirad, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yuan, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, L Zambelli, K Zaremba, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, J Żmuda, T2K Collaboration
Abstract:
New data from the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment produce the most precise measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter θ23. Using an off-axis neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV and a data set corresponding to 6.57×10(20) protons on target, T2K has fit the energy-dependent νμ oscillation probability to determine oscillation parameters. The 68% confidence limit on sin(2)(θ23) is 0.514(-0.056)(+0.055) (0.511±0.055), assuming normal (inverted) mass hierarchy. The best-fit mass-squared splitting for normal hierarchy is Δm32(2)=(2.51±0.10)×10(-3) eV(2)/c(4) (inverted hierarchy: Δm13(2)=(2.48±0.10)×10(-3) eV(2)/c(4)). Adding a model of multinucleon interactions that affect neutrino energy reconstruction is found to produce only small biases in neutrino oscillation parameter extraction at current levels of statistical uncertainty.
