First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K
PHYSICAL REVIEW D 101:11 (2020) ARTN 112001
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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 Berguno, 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 ChikumaAbstract:
© 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. This paper presents the first combined measurement of the double-differential muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross sections with no pions in the final state on hydrocarbon at the off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The data analyzed in this work comprise 5.8×1020 and 6.3×1020 protons on target in neutrino and antineutrino mode respectively, at a beam energy peak of 0.6 GeV. Using the two measured cross sections, the sum, difference, and asymmetry were calculated with the aim of better understanding the nuclear effects involved in such interactions. The extracted measurements have been compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo generators and theoretical models showing that the difference between the two cross sections have interesting sensitivity to nuclear effects.Search for electron antineutrino appearance in a long-baseline muon antineutrino beam
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 124:16 (2020) 161802
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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, D Barrow, 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 Berguno, 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 CollazuolAbstract:
Electron antineutrino appearance is measured by the T2K experiment in an accelerator-produced antineutrino beam, using additional neutrino beam operation to constrain parameters of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) mixing matrix. T2K observes 15 candidate electron antineutrino events with a background expectation of 9.3 events. Including information from the kinematic distribution of observed events, the hypothesis of no electron antineutrino appearance is disfavored with a significance of 2.40σ and no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions is found. A complementary analysis that introduces an additional free parameter which allows non-PMNS values of electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance also finds no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions.Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production
(2020)
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D Coplowe, O Altinok, Z Ahmad Dar, F Akbar, DA Andrade, GD Barr, A Bashyal, A Bercellie, M Betancourt, A Bodek, A Bravar, H Budd, G Caceres, T Cai, MF Carneiro, H da Motta, SA Dytman, GA Díaz, J Felix, L Fields, A Filkins, R Fine, AM Gago, H Gallagher, A Ghosh, R Gran, DA Harris, S Henry, S Jena, J Kleykamp, M Kordosky, D Last, T Le, A Lozano, X-G Lu, E Maher, S Manly, WA Mann, C Mauger, KS McFarland, B Messerly, J Miller, JG Morfín, D Naples, JK Nelson, C Nguyen, A Norrick, A Olivier, V Paolone, GN Perdue, MA Ramírez, RD Ransome, H Ray, PA Rodrigues, D Ruterbories, H Schellman, JT Sobczyk, CJ Solano Salinas, H Su, M Sultana, VS Syrotenko, E Valencia, D Wark, A Weber, M Wospakrik, C Wret, B Yaeggy, L ZazuetaDeep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics
(2020)
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Bonesini, M Bongrand, F Bonini, A Booth, C Booth, S Bordoni, A Borkum, T Boschi, N Bostan, P Bour, SB Boyd, D Boyden, J Bracinik, D Braga, D Brailsford, A Brandt, J Bremer, C Brew, E Brianne, SJ Brice, C Brizzolari, C Bromberg, G Brooijmans, J Brooke, A Bross, G Brunetti, N Buchanan, H Budd, D Caiulo, P Calafiura, J Calcutt, M Calin, S Calvez, E Calvo, L Camilleri, A Caminata, M Campanelli, D Caratelli, G Carini, B Carlus, P Carniti, I Caro Terrazas, H Carranza, A Castillo, C Castromonte, C Cattadori, F Cavalier, F Cavanna, S Centro, G Cerati, A Cervelli, A Cervera Villanueva, M Chalifour, C Chang, E Chardonnet, A Chatterjee, S Chattopadhyay, J Chaves, H Chen, M Chen, Y Chen, D Cherdack, C Chi, S Childress, A Chiriacescu, K Cho, S Choubey, A Christensen, D Christian, G Christodoulou, E Church, P Clarke, TE Coan, AG Cocco, JAB Coelho, E Conley, JM Conrad, M Convery, L Corwin, P Cotte, L Cremaldi, L Cremonesi, JI Crespo-Anadon, E Cristaldo, R Cross, C Cuesta, Y Cui, D Cussans, M 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