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The inside of the SNO+ experiment, showing the acrylic vessel, hold up/down ropes and PMTs. At this stage the vessel was nearly filled with scintillator.

Dr William Parker

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • SNO+
william.parker@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Constraint on the matter-antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations

Nature Springer Nature 580:7803 (2020) 339-344

Authors:

K Abe, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, S Berkman, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, DB Berguño, C Bronner, A Bubak, MB Avanzini, J Calcutt, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook

Abstract:

The charge-conjugation and parity-reversal (CP) symmetry of fundamental particles is a symmetry between matter and antimatter. Violation of this CP symmetry was first observed in 19641, and CP violation in the weak interactions of quarks was soon established2. Sakharov proposed3 that CP violation is necessary to explain the observed imbalance of matter and antimatter abundance in the Universe. However, CP violation in quarks is too small to support this explanation. So far, CP violation has not been observed in non-quark elementary particle systems. It has been shown that CP violation in leptons could generate the matter–antimatter disparity through a process called leptogenesis4. Leptonic mixing, which appears in the standard model’s charged current interactions5,6, provides a potential source of CP violation through a complex phase δCP, which is required by some theoretical models of leptogenesis7,8,9. This CP violation can be measured in muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations and the corresponding antineutrino oscillations, which are experimentally accessible using accelerator-produced beams as established by the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) and NOvA experiments10,11. Until now, the value of δCP has not been substantially constrained by neutrino oscillation experiments. Here we report a measurement using long-baseline neutrino and antineutrino oscillations observed by the T2K experiment that shows a large increase in the neutrino oscillation probability, excluding values of δCP that result in a large increase in the observed antineutrino oscillation probability at three standard deviations (3σ). The 3σ confidence interval for δCP, which is cyclic and repeats every 2π, is [−3.41, −0.03] for the so-called normal mass ordering and [−2.54, −0.32] for the inverted mass ordering. Our results indicate CP violation in leptons and our method enables sensitive searches for matter–antimatter asymmetry in neutrino oscillations using accelerator-produced neutrino beams. Future measurements with larger datasets will test whether leptonic CP violation is larger than the CP violation in quarks.
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First T2K measurement of transverse kinematic imbalance in the muon-neutrino charged-current single-π+ production channel containing at least one proton

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 103:11 (2021) 112009

Authors:

K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, M Antonova, S Aoki, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, J Chakrani, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, CC Delogu, SR Dennis, C Densham, A Dergacheva, F Di Lodovico, S Dolan, D Douqa, TA Doyle, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, AJ Finch, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, M Gonin, EAG Goodman, A Gorin, M Grassi, M Guigue, DR Hadley, P Hamacher-Baumann, DA Harris, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, JJ Jiang, P Jonsson, CK Jung, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, H Kakuno, J Kameda, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, S King, J Kisiel, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, Y Kudenko, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Laveder, M Lawe, S-K Lin, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, C Mauger, A Maurel, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, GD Megias, L Mellet, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, D Munford, L Munteanu, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, H Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, VQ Nguyen, K Niewczas, Y Nishimura, K Nishizaki, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O’Keeffe, L O’Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, J Parlone, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, D Pershey, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, M Reh, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, CA Ruggles, A Rychter, LSM Lakshmi, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, A Shaikhiev, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, K Skwarczynski, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, R Spina, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, N Thamm, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, L Wan, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, Y-H Xu, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, R Zaki, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, M Zito, S Zsoldos
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Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with 3.13×1021 protons on target

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 103:11 (2021) 112008

Authors:

K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, M Antonova, S Aoki, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, J Chakrani, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, CC Delogu, SR Dennis, C Densham, A Dergacheva, F Di Lodovico, S Dolan, D Douqa, TA Doyle, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, AJ Finch, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, M Gonin, EAG Goodman, A Gorin, M Grassi, M Guigue, DR Hadley, P Hamacher-Baumann, DA Harris, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, JJ Jiang, P Jonsson, CK Jung, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, H Kakuno, J Kameda, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, S King, J Kisiel, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, Y Kudenko, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Laveder, M Lawe, S-K Lin, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, C Mauger, A Maurel, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, GD Megias, L Mellet, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, D Munford, L Munteanu, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, H Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, VQ Nguyen, K Niewczas, Y Nishimura, K Nishizaki, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O’Keeffe, L O’Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, J Parlone, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, D Pershey, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, A Pritchard, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, M Reh, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, CA Ruggles, A Rychter, LSM Lakshmi, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, A Shaikhiev, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, K Skwarczynski, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, R Spina, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, N Thamm, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, L Wan, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, Y-H Xu, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, R Zaki, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, M Zito, S Zsoldos
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T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 3.13×1021 protons on target

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 103:1 (2021) L011101

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K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, M Antonova, S Aoki, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, Et Atkin, Y Awataguchi, Gj Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, Sb Boyd, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, S Cao, Sl Cartwright, Mg Catanesi, A Cervera, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, Cc Delogu, Sr Dennis, C Densham

Abstract:

© 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. We report measurements by the T2K experiment of the parameters θ23 and Δm322, which govern the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos in the three-flavor PMNS neutrino oscillation model at T2K's neutrino energy and propagation distance. Utilizing the ability of the experiment to run with either a mainly neutrino or a mainly antineutrino beam, muon-like events from each beam mode are used to measure these parameters separately for neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. Data taken from 1.49×1021 protons on target (POT) in neutrino mode and 1.64×1021 POT in antineutrino mode are used. The best-fit values obtained by T2K were sin2(θ23)=0.51-0.07+0.06(0.43-0.05+0.21) and Δm322=2.47-0.09+0.08(2.50-0.13+0.18)×10-3 eV2/c4 for neutrinos (antineutrinos). No significant differences between the values of the parameters describing the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos were observed. An analysis using an effective two-flavor neutrino oscillation model where the sine of the mixing angle is allowed to take nonphysical values larger than 1 is also performed to check the consistency of our data with the three-flavor model. Our data were found to be consistent with a physical value for the mixing angle.
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Measurement of the charged-current electron (anti-)neutrino inclusive cross-sections at the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

Journal of High Energy Physics 2020:10 (2020) 114

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K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, Et Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, Gj Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, Sb Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, J Calcutt, T Campbell, S Cao, Sl Cartwright, Mg Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma

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© 2020, The Author(s). 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.
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