Professor Dr.rer.nat. Dipl.Phys. Alfons Weber FInstP, MA Ox: Publications

Comparisons of annual modulations in MINOS with the event rate modulation in CoGeNT

ArXiv 1212.1776 (2012)

Measurements of the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 694 (2012) 211-223

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K Abe, N Abgrall, Y Ajima, H Aihara, JB Albert, C Andreopoulos, B Andrieu, MD Anerella, S Aoki, O Araoka, J Argyriades, A Ariga, T Ariga, S Assylbekov, D Autiero, A Badertscher, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, M Bass, M Batkiewicz, F Bay, S Bentham, V Berardi, BE Berger, I Bertram, M Besnier, J Beucher, D Beznosko, S Bhadra, FDM Blaszczyk, J Blocki, A Blondel, C Bojechko, J Bouchez, SB Boyd, A Bravar, C Bronner, DG Brook-Roberge, N Buchanan, H Budd, D Calvet, SL Cartwright, A Carver, R Castillo, MG Catanesi, A Cazes, A Cervera, C Chavez, S Choi, G Christodoulou, J Coleman, G Collazuol, W Coleman, K Connolly, A Curioni, A Dabrowska, I Danko, R Das, GS Davies, S Davis, M Day, G De Rosa, JPAM De André, P De Perio, T Dealtry, A Delbart, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, S Di Luise, P Dinh Tran, J Dobson, U Dore, O Drapier, F Dufour, J Dumarchez, S Dytman, M Dziewiecki, M Dziomba, S Emery, A Ereditato, JE Escallier, L Escudero, LS Esposito, M Fechner, A Ferrero, AJ Finch, E Frank, Y Fujii, Y Fukuda, V Galymov, GL Ganetis, FC Gannaway, A Gaudin, A Gendotti, M George, S Giffin, C Giganti, K Gilje, AK Ghosh

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Precise measurement of neutrino beam direction and intensity was achieved based on a new concept with modularized neutrino detectors. INGRID (Interactive Neutrino GRID) is an on-axis near detector for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. INGRID consists of 16 identical modules arranged in horizontal and vertical arrays around the beam center. The module has a sandwich structure of iron target plates and scintillator trackers. INGRID directly monitors the muon neutrino beam profile center and intensity using the number of observed neutrino events in each module. The neutrino beam direction is measured with accuracy better than 0.4 mrad from the measured profile center. The normalized event rate is measured with 4% precision. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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The T2K Neutrino Flux Prediction

(2012)

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T2K Collaboration, K Abe, N Abgrall, H Aihara, T Akiri, JB Albert, 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, D Beznosko, S Bhadra, FDM Blaszczyk, A Blondel, C Bojechko, S Boyd, A Bravar, C Bronner, DG Brook-Roberge, N Buchanan, RG Calland, J Caravaca Rodriguez, SL Cartwright, R Castillo, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, A Clifton, J Coleman, SJ Coleman, G Collazuol, K Connolly, A Curioni, A Dabrowska, I Danko, R Das, S Davis, M Day, JPAM de Andre, P de Perio, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, S Di Luise, J Dobson, T Duboyski, F Dufour, J Dumarchez, S Dytman, M Dziewiecki, M Dziomba, S Emery, A Ereditato, L Escudero, LS Esposito, AJ Finch, E Frank, M Friend, Y Fujii, Y Fukuda, V Galymov, A Gaudin, S Giffin, C Giganti, K Gilje, T Golan, JJ Gomez-Cadenas, M Gonin, N Grant, D Gudin, P Guzowski, DR Hadley, A Haesler, MD Haigh, D Hansen, T Hara, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, C Hearty, RL Helmer, J Hignight, A Hillairet, A Himmel, T Hiraki, J Holeczek, S Horikawa, K Huang, A Hyndman, AK Ichikawa, K Ieki, M Ieva, M Ikeda, J Imber, J Insler, T Ishida, T Ishii, SJ Ives, K Iyogi, A Izmaylov, B Jamieson, RA Johnson, JH Jo, P Jonsson, KK Joo, GV Jover-Manas, CK Jung, H Kaji, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, Y Kanazawa, D Karlen, I Karpikov, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, F Khanam, A Khotjantsev, D Kielczewska, T Kikawa, A Kilinski, JY Kim, J Kim, SB Kim, B Kirby, J Kisiel, P Kitching, T Kobayashi, G Kogan, A Konaka, LL Kormos, A Korzenev, K Koseki, Y Koshio, K Kowalik, I Kreslo, W Kropp, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, S Kumaratunga, R Kurjata, T Kutter, J Lagoda, K Laihem, A Laing, M Laveder, M Lawe, KP Lee, C Licciardi, IT Lim, T Lindner, C Lister, RP Litchfield, A Longhin, GD Lopez, L Ludovici, M Macaire, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, A Marchionni, AD Marino, J Marteau, JF Martin, T Maruyama, J Marzec, P Masliah, EL Mathie, C Matsumura, K Matsuoka, V Matveev, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, KS McFarland, C McGrew, T McLachlan, M Messina, 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 Nakajima, K Nakamura, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, D Naples, TC Nicholls, C Nielsen, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, HM O'Keeffe, Y Obayashi, R Ohta, K Okumura, W Oryszczak, SM Oser, M Otani, RA Owen, Y Oyama, MY Pac, V Palladino, V Paolone, D Payne, GF Pearce, O Perevozchikov, JD Perkin, ES Pinzon Guerra, P Plonski, E Poplawska, B Popov, M Posiadala, J-M Poutissou, R Poutissou, P Przewlocki, B Quilain, E Radicioni, PN Rato, M Ravonel, MA Rayner, M Reeves, E Reinherz-Aronis, F Retiere, PA Rodrigues, E Rondio, B Rossi, S Roth, A Rubbia, D Ruterbories, R Sacco, K Sakashita, F Sanchez, E Scantamburlo, K Scholberg, J Schwehr, M Scott, DI Scully, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, M Shibata, 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, R Sulej, A Suzuki, K Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, T Szeglowski, M Szeptycka, R Tacik, M Tada, S Takahashi, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HA Tanaka, M Tanaka, MM Tanaka, IJ Taylor, 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, J Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, G Wikstrom, RJ Wilkes, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, Z Williamson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, T Wongjirad, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, T Yano, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yuan, A Zalewska, L Zambelli, K Zaremba, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, J Zmuda

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Measurements of atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos in the MINOS far detector

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86:5 (2012)

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P Adamson, C Backhouse, G Barr, M Bishai, AST Blake, GJ Bock, DJ Boehnlein, D Bogert, SV Cao, JD Chapman, S Childress, JAB Coelho, L Corwin, D Cronin-Hennessy, IZ Danko, JK De Jong, NE Devenish, MV Diwan, CO Escobar, JJ Evans, E Falk, GJ Feldman, MV Frohne, HR Gallagher, RA Gomes, MC Goodman, P Gouffon, N Graf, R Gran, K Grzelak, A Habig, J Hartnell, R Hatcher, A Himmel, A Holin, J Hylen, GM Irwin, Z Isvan, DE Jaffe, C James, D Jensen, T Kafka, SMS Kasahara, G Koizumi, S Kopp, M Kordosky, A Kreymer, K Lang, J Ling, PJ Litchfield, L Loiacono, P Lucas, WA Mann, ML Marshak, M Mathis, N Mayer, MM Medeiros, R Mehdiyev, JR Meier, MD Messier, WH Miller, SR Mishra, J Mitchell, CD Moore, L Mualem, S Mufson, J Musser, D Naples, JK Nelson, HB Newman, RJ Nichol, JA Nowak, WP Oliver, M Orchanian, RB Pahlka, J Paley, RB Patterson, G Pawloski, S Phan-Budd, RK Plunkett, X Qiu, A Radovic, J Ratchford, B Rebel, C Rosenfeld, HA Rubin, MC Sanchez, J Schneps, A Schreckenberger, P Schreiner, R Sharma, A Sousa, B Speakman, M Strait, N Tagg, RL Talaga, J Thomas, MA Thomson, R Toner, D Torretta

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This paper reports measurements of atmospheric neutrino and antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Far Detector, based on 2553 live-days (37.9kton-years) of data. A total of 2072 candidate events are observed. These are separated into 905 contained-vertex muons and 466 neutrino-induced rock-muons, both produced by charged-current ν μ and ν ̄μ interactions, and 701 contained-vertex showers, composed mainly of charged-current ν e and ν ̄e interactions and neutral-current interactions. The curvature of muon tracks in the magnetic field of the MINOS Far Detector is used to select separate samples of ν μ and ν ̄μ events. The observed ratio of ν ̄μ to ν μ events is compared with the MonteCarlo (MC) simulation, giving a double ratio of Rν̄/νdata/ Rν̄/νMC=1.03±0.08(stat)±0.08(syst). The ν μ and ν ̄μ data are separated into bins of L/E resolution, based on the reconstructed energy and direction of each event, and a maximum likelihood fit to the observed L/E distributions is used to determine the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters. This fit returns 90% confidence limits of |Δm2|=(1.9±0.4)×10 -3eV2 and sin22θ>0.86. The fit is extended to incorporate separate ν μ and ν ̄μ oscillation parameters, returning 90% confidence limits of |Δm2|-|Δm ̄2|=0.6- 0.8+2.4×10 -3eV2 on the difference between the squared-mass splittings for neutrinos and antineutrinos. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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The T2K ND280 off-axis pi-zero detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 686 (2012) 48-63

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S Assylbekov, G Barr, BE Berger, H Berns, D Beznosko, A Bodek, R Bradford, N Buchanan, H Budd, Y Caffari, K Connolly, I Danko, R Das, S Davis, M Day, S Dytman, M Dziomba, R Flight, D Forbush, K Gilje, D Hansen, J Hignight, J Imber, RA Johnson, CK Jung, V Kravtsov, PT Le, GD Lopez, CJ Malafis, S Manly, AD Marino, KS McFarland, C McGrew, C Metelko, G Nagashima, D Naples, TC Nicholls, B Nielsen, V Paolone, P Paul, GF Pearce, W Qian, K Ramos, E Reinherz-Aronis, PA Rodrigues, D Ruterbories, J Schmidt, J Schwehr, M Siyad, J Steffens, AS Tadepalli, IJ Taylor, M Thorpe, W Toki, C Vanek, D Warner, A Weber, RJ Wilkes, RJ Wilson, C Yanagisawa, T Yuan

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The pi-zero detector (POD) is one of the subdetectors that makes up the off-axis near detector for the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long baseline neutrino experiment. The primary goal for the POD is to measure the relevant cross-sections for neutrino interactions that generate π0s, especially the cross-section for neutral current π0 interactions, which are one of the dominant sources of background to the νμ→ νe appearance signal in T2K. The POD is composed of layers of plastic scintillator alternating with water bags and brass sheets or lead sheets and is one of the first detectors to use Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs) on a large scale. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Comparisons of annual modulations in MINOS with the event rate modulation in CoGeNT

Measurements of the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector

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The T2K Neutrino Flux Prediction

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Measurements of atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos in the MINOS far detector

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