Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors from 2010 to 2021

Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 17:10 (2022) P10028-P10028

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, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi

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Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores. Solo se referencia el que aparece en primer lugar, el nombre del grupo de colaboración si hubiere y los autores pertenecientes a la UAMThe T2K experiment widely uses plastic scintillator as a target for neutrino interactions and an active medium for the measurement of charged particles produced in neutrino interactions at its near detector complex. Over 10 years of operation the measured light yield recorded by the scintillator based subsystems has been observed to degrade by 0.9–2.2% per year. Extrapolation of the degradation rate through to 2040 indicates the recorded light yield should remain above the lower threshold used by the current reconstruction algorithms for all subsystems. This will allow the near detectors to continue contributing to important physics measurements during the T2K-II and Hyper-Kamiokande eras. Additionally, work to disentangle the degradation of the plastic scintillator and wavelength shifting fibres shows that the reduction in light yield can be attributed to the ageing of the plastic scintillator. The long component of the attenuation length of the wavelength shifting fibres was observed to degrade by 1.3–5.4% per year, while the short component of the attenuation length did not show any conclusive degradationWe thank the J-PARC staff for superb accelerator performance. We thank the CERN NA61/SHINE Collaboration for providing valuable particle production data. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, JSPS KAKENHI (JP16H06288, JP18K03682, JP18H03701, JP18H05537, JP19J01119, JP19J22440, JP19J22258, JP20H00162, JP20H00149, JP20J20304) and bilateral programs (JPJSBP120204806, JPJSBP120209601), Japan; NSERC, the NRC, and CFI, Canada; the CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; the DFG (RO 3625/2), Germany; the INFN, Italy; the Ministry of Education and Science( DIR/WK/2017/05) and the National Science Centre (UMO-2018/30/E/ST2/00441), Poland; the RSF19-12-00325, RSF22-12-00358 and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (075-15-2020- 778), Russia; MICINN (SEV-2016-0588, PID2019-107564GB-I00, PGC2018-099388-BI00) and ERDF funds and CERCA program, Spain; the SNSF and SERI (200021_185012, 200020_188533, 20FL21_186178I), Switzerland; the STFC, U.K.; and the DOE, U.S.A. We also thank CERN for the UA1/NOMAD magnet, DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system, NII for SINET5, the WestGrid and SciNet consortia in Compute Canada, and GridPP in the United Kingdom. In addition, the participation of individual researchers and institutions has been further supported by funds from the ERC (FP7), “la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434, fellowship code LCF/BQ/IN17/11620050), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement numbers 713673 and 754496, and H2020 grant numbers RISE-GA822070-JENNIFER2 2020 and RISE-GA872549-SK2HK; the JSPS, Japan; the Royal Society, U.K.; French ANR grant number ANR-19-CE31-0001; and the DOE Early Career programme, U.S.A

Searching for Supernova Bursts in Super-Kamiokande IV

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 938:1 (2022) 35-35

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M Mori, K Abe, Y Hayato, K Hiraide, K Ieki, M Ikeda, S Imaizumi, J Kameda, Y Kanemura, R Kaneshima, Y Kashiwagi, Y Kataoka, S Miki, S Mine, M Miura, S Moriyama, Y Nagao, M Nakahata, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, Y Noguchi, T Okada, K Okamoto, A Orii, K Sato

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Super-Kamiokande has been searching for neutrino bursts characteristic of core-collapse supernovae continuously, in real time, since the start of operations in 1996. The present work focuses on detecting more distant supernovae whose event rate may be too small to trigger in real time, but may be identified using an offline approach. The analysis of data collected from 2008 to 2018 found no evidence of distant supernovae bursts. This establishes an upper limit of 0.29 yr−1 on the rate of core-collapse supernovae out to 100 kpc at 90% C.L. For supernovae that fail to explode and collapse directly to black holes the limit reaches to 300 kpc

Separation of track- and shower-like energy deposits in ProtoDUNE-SP using a convolutional neural network

European Physical Journal C Springer Nature 82:10 (2022) 903

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A Abed Abud, B Abi, R Acciarri, MA Acero, MR Adames, G Adamov, M Adamowski, D Adams, M Adinolfi, A Aduszkiewicz, J Aguilar, Z Ahmad, J Ahmed, B Aimard, B Ali-Mohammadzadeh, T Alion, K Allison, S Alonso Monsalve, M AlRashed, C Alt, A Alton, R Alvarez, P Amedo, J Anderson, C Andreopoulos, M Andreotti, M Andrews, F Andrianala, S Andringa, N Anfimov, A Ankowski, M Antoniassi, M Antonova, A Antoshkin, S Antusch, A Aranda-Fernandez, L Arellano, LO Arnold, MA Arroyave, J Asaadi, L Asquith, A Aurisano, V Aushev, D Autiero, V Ayala Lara, M Ayala-Torres, F Azfar, M Babicz, A Back, H Back, JJ Back, C Backhouse, I Bagaturia, L Bagby, N Balashov, S Balasubramanian, P Baldi, B Baller, B Bambah, F Barao, G Barenboim, G Barker, W Barkhouse, C Barnes, G Barr, J Barranco Monarca, A Barros, N Barros, JL Barrow, A Basharina-Freshville, A Bashyal, V Basque, C Batchelor, E Batista das Chagas, J Battat, F Battisti, F Bay, MCQ Bazetto, J Bazo Alba, JF Beacom, E Bechetoille, B Behera, C Beigbeder, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, V Bellini, O Beltramello, N Benekos, C Benitez Montiel, F Bento Neves, J Berger, S Berkman, P Bernardini, RM Berner, A Bersani, S Bertolucci, M Betancourt, A Betancur Rodríguez, A Bevan, Y Bezawada, TS Bezerra, A Bhardwaj, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, D Bhattarai, S Bhuller, B Bhuyan, S Biagi, J Bian, M Biassoni, K Biery, B Bilki, M Bishai, A Bitadze, A Blake, F Blaszczyk, G Blazey, E Blucher, J Boissevain, S Bolognesi, T Bolton, L Bomben, M Bonesini, M Bongrand, C Bonilla-Diaz, F Bonini, A Booth, F Boran, S Bordoni, A Borkum, N Bostan, P Bour, C Bourgeois, D Boyden, J Bracinik, D Braga, D Brailsford, A Branca, A Brandt, J Bremer, D Breton, C Brew, SJ Brice, C Brizzolari, C Bromberg, J Brooke, A Bross, G Brunetti, M Brunetti, N Buchanan, H Budd, I Butorov, I Cagnoli, T Cai, D Caiulo, R Calabrese, P Calafiura, J Calcutt, M Calin, S Calvez, E Calvo, A Caminata, M Campanelli, D Caratelli, D Carber, J Carceller, G Carini, B Carlus, MF Carneiro, P Carniti, I Caro Terrazas, H Carranza, T Carroll, JF Castaño Forero, A Castillo, C Castromonte, E Catano-Mur, C Cattadori, F Cavalier, G Cavallaro, F Cavanna, S Centro, G Cerati, A Cervelli, A Cervera Villanueva, M Chalifour, A Chappell, E Chardonnet, N Charitonidis, A Chatterjee, S Chattopadhyay, M Chavarry Neyra, H Chen, M Chen, Y Chen, Z Chen, Z Chen-Wishart, Y Cheon, D Cherdack, C Chi, S Childress, R Chirco, A Chiriacescu, G Chisnall, K Cho, S Choate, D Chokheli, PS Chong, A Christensen, D Christian, G Christodoulou, A Chukanov, M Chung, E Church, V Cicero, P Clarke, G Cline, TE Coan, AG Cocco, J Coelho, N Colton, E Conley, R Conley, J Conrad, M Convery, S Copello, P Cova, L Cremaldi, L Cremonesi, JI Crespo-Anadón, M Crisler, E Cristaldo, J Crnkovic, R Cross, A Cudd, C Cuesta, Y Cui, D Cussans, O Dalager, H Da Motta, L Da Silva Peres, C David, Q David, GS Davies, S Davini, J Dawson, K De, S De, P Debbins, I De Bonis, M Decowski, A De Gouvea, PC De Holanda, IL De Icaza Astiz, A Deisting, P De Jong, A Delbart, D Delepine, M Delgado, A Dell’Acqua, N Delmonte, P De Lurgio, JR De Mello Neto, DM DeMuth, S Dennis, C Densham, GW Deptuch, A De Roeck, V De Romeri, G De Souza, R Devi, R Dharmapalan, M Dias, F Diaz, J Diaz, S Di Domizio, L Di Giulio, P Ding, L Di Noto, G Dirkx, C Distefano, R Diurba, M Diwan, Z Djurcic, D Doering, S Dolan, F Dolek, M Dolinski, L Domine, Y Donon, D Douglas, D Douillet, A Dragone, G Drake, F Drielsma, L Duarte, D Duchesneau, K Duffy, P Dunne, B Dutta, H Duyang, O Dvornikov, D Dwyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, A Earle, D Edmunds, J Eisch, L Emberger, S Emery, P Englezos, A Ereditato, T Erjavec, C Escobar, G Eurin, JJ Evans, E Ewart, AC Ezeribe, K Fahey, A Falcone, M Fani’, C Farnese, Y Farzan, D Fedoseev, J Felix, Y Feng, E Fernandez-Martinez, P Fernandez Menendez, M Fernandez Morales, F Ferraro, L Fields, P Filip, F Filthaut, M Fiorini, V Fischer, RS Fitzpatrick, W Flanagan, B Fleming, R Flight, S Fogarty, W Foreman, J Fowler, W Fox, J Franc, K Francis, D Franco, J Freeman, J Freestone, J Fried, A Friedland, F Fuentes Robayo, S Fuess, IK Furic, K Furman, AP Furmanski, A Gabrielli, A Gago, H Gallagher, A Gallas, A Gallego-Ros, N Gallice, V Galymov, E Gamberini, T Gamble, F Ganacim, R Gandhi, R Gandrajula, F Gao, S Gao, D Garcia-Gamez, MÁ García-Peris, S Gardiner, D Gastler, J Gauvreau, G Ge, N Geffroy, B Gelli, A Gendotti, S Gent, Z Ghorbani-Moghaddam, P Giammaria, T Giammaria, N Giangiacomi, D Gibin, I Gil-Botella, S Gilligan, C Girerd, A Giri, D Gnani, O Gogota, M Gold, S Gollapinni, K Gollwitzer, RA Gomes, L Gomez Bermeo, LS Gomez Fajardo, F Gonnella, D Gonzalez-Diaz, M Gonzalez-Lopez, MC Goodman, O Goodwin, S Goswami, C Gotti, E Goudzovski, C Grace, R Gran, E Granados, P Granger, A Grant, C Grant, D Gratieri, P Green, L Greenler, J Greer, J Grenard, C Griffith, M Groh, J Grudzinski, K Grzelak, W Gu, E Guardincerri, V Guarino, M Guarise, R Guenette, E Guerard, M Guerzoni, D Guffanti, A Guglielmi, B Guo, A Gupta, V Gupta, K Guthikonda, R Gutierrez, P Guzowski, MM Guzzo, S Gwon, C Ha, K Haaf, A Habig, H Hadavand, R Haenni, A Hahn, J Haiston, P Hamacher-Baumann, T Hamernik, P Hamilton, J Han, DA Harris, J Hartnell, T Hartnett, J Harton, T Hasegawa, C Hasnip, R Hatcher, KW Hatfield, A Hatzikoutelis, C Hayes, K Hayrapetyan, J Hays, E Hazen, M He, A Heavey, KM Heeger, J Heise, S Henry, M Hernandez Morquecho, K Herner, J Hewes, C Hilgenberg, T Hill, SJ Hillier, A Himmel, E Hinkle, LR Hirsch, J Ho, J Hoff, A Holin, E Hoppe, GA Horton-Smith, M Hostert, A Hourlier, B Howard, R Howell, J Hoyos, I Hristova, MS Hronek, J Huang, Z Hulcher, G Iles, N Ilic, AM Iliescu, R Illingworth, G Ingratta, A Ioannisian, B Irwin, L Isenhower, R Itay, CM Jackson, V Jain, E James, W Jang, B Jargowsky, F Jediny, D Jena, Y Jeong, C Jesús-Valls, X Ji, L Jiang, S Jiménez, A Jipa, R Johnson, W Johnson, N Johnston, B Jones, S Jones, M Judah, C Jung, T Junk, Y Jwa, M Kabirnezhad, A Kaboth, I Kadenko, I Kakorin, A Kalitkina, D Kalra, F Kamiya, N Kaneshige, DM Kaplan, G Karagiorgi, G Karaman, A Karcher, M Karolak, Y Karyotakis, S Kasai, SP Kasetti, L Kashur, N Kazaryan, E Kearns, P Keener, KJ Kelly, E Kemp, O Kemularia, W Ketchum, SH Kettell, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, A Khvedelidze, D Kim, B King, B Kirby, M Kirby, J Klein, A Klustova, T Kobilarcik, K Koehler, LW Koerner, DH Koh, S Kohn, PP Koller, L Kolupaeva, D Korablev, M Kordosky, T Kosc, U Kose, V Kostelecky, K Kothekar, R Kralik, L Kreczko, F Krennrich, I Kreslo, W Kropp, T Kroupova, S Kubota, Y Kudenko, VA Kudryavtsev, S Kulagin, J Kumar, P Kumar, P Kunze, N Kurita, C Kuruppu, V Kus, T Kutter, J Kvasnicka, D Kwak, A Lambert, B Land, CE Lane, K Lang, T Langford, M Langstaff, J Larkin, P Lasorak, D Last, A Laundrie, G Laurenti, A Lawrence, I Lazanu, R LaZur, M Lazzaroni, T Le, S Leardini, J Learned, P LeBrun, T LeCompte, C Lee, S Lee, G Lehmann Miotto, R Lehnert, M Leigui de Oliveira, M Leitner, LM Lepin, S Li, Y Li, H Liao, C Lin, Q Lin, S Lin, RA Lineros, J Ling, A Lister, BR Littlejohn, J Liu, Y Liu, S Lockwitz, T Loew, M Lokajicek, I Lomidze, K Long, T Lord, J LoSecco, WC Louis, X Lu, K Luk, B Lunday, X Luo, E Luppi, T Lux, VP Luzio, J Maalmi, D MacFarlane, A Machado, P Machado, C Macias, J Macier, A Maddalena, A Madera, P Madigan, S Magill, K Mahn, A Maio, A Major, JA Maloney, G Mandrioli, RC Mandujano, JC Maneira, L Manenti, S Manly, A Mann, K Manolopoulos, M Manrique Plata, VN Manyam, L Manzanillas, M Marchan, A Marchionni, W Marciano, D Marfatia, C Mariani, J Maricic, R Marie, F Marinho, AD Marino, D Marsden, M Marshak, C Marshall, J Marshall, J Marteau, J Martin-Albo, N Martinez, DA Martinez Caicedo, P Martínez Miravé, S Martynenko, V Mascagna, K Mason, A Mastbaum, F Matichard, S Matsuno, J Matthews, C Mauger, N Mauri, K Mavrokoridis, I Mawby, R Mazza, A Mazzacane, E Mazzucato, T McAskill, E McCluskey, N McConkey, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A McNab, A Mefodiev, P Mehta, P Melas, O Mena, H Mendez, P Mendez, DP Méndez, A Menegolli, G Meng, M 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Sensenig, A Sergi, D Sgalaberna, M Shaevitz, S Shafaq, F Shaker, M Shamma, R Sharankova, HR Sharma, R Sharma, RK Sharma, T Shaw, K Shchablo, C Shepherd-Themistocleous, A Sheshukov, S Shin, I Shoemaker, D Shooltz, R Shrock, H Siegel, L Simard, J Sinclair, G Sinev, J Singh, J Singh, L Singh, P Singh, V Singh, R Sipos, F Sippach, G Sirri, A Sitraka, K Siyeon, K Skarpaas, A Smith, E Smith, P Smith, J Smolik, M Smy, E Snider, P Snopok, D Snowden-Ifft, M Soares Nunes, H Sobel, M Soderberg, S Sokolov, CJ Solano Salinas, S Söldner-Rembold, S Soleti, N Solomey, V Solovov, WE Sondheim, M Sorel, A Sotnikov, J Soto-Oton, F Soto Ugaldi, A Sousa, K Soustruznik, F Spagliardi, M Spanu, J Spitz, NJC Spooner, K Spurgeon, M Stancari, L Stanco, C Stanford, D Stefan, R Stein, H Steiner, AF Steklain Lisbôa, J Stewart, B Stillwell, J Stock, F Stocker, T Stokes, M Strait, T Strauss, L Strigari, A Stuart, JG Suarez, J Suárez Sunción, R Sulej, H Sullivan, D Summers, A Surdo, V Susic, L Suter, C Sutera, R 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Wallis, H Wang, J Wang, L Wang, MH Wang, X Wang, Y Wang, Y Wang, K Warburton, D Warner, M Wascko, D Waters, A Watson, K Wawrowska, P Weatherly, A Weber, M Weber, H Wei, A Weinstein, D Wenman, M Wetstein, A White, LH Whitehead, D Whittington, MJ Wilking, A Wilkinson, C Wilkinson, Z Williams, F Wilson, RJ Wilson, W Wisniewski, J Wolcott, T Wongjirad, A Wood, K Wood, E Worcester, M Worcester, K Wresilo, C Wret, W Wu, W Wu, Y Xiao, F Xie, B Yaeggy, E Yandel, G Yang, K Yang, T Yang, A Yankelevich, N Yershov, K Yonehara, Y Yoon, T Young, B Yu, H Yu, H Yu, J Yu, Y Yu, W Yuan, R Zaki, J Zalesak, L Zambelli, B Zamorano, A Zani, L Zazueta, G Zeller, J Zennamo, K Zeug, C Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, M Zhao, E Zhivun, G Zhu, ED Zimmerman, S Zucchelli, J Zuklin, V Zutshi, R Zwaska

Neutron tagging following atmospheric neutrino events in a water Cherenkov detector

Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 17:10 (2022) p10029

Authors:

K Abe, Y Haga, Y Hayato, K Hiraide, K Ieki, M Ikeda, S Imaizumi, K Iyogi, J Kameda, Y Kanemura, Y Kataoka, Y Kato, Y Kishimoto, S Miki, S Mine, M Miura, T Mochizuki, S Moriyama, Y Nagao, M Nakahata, T Nakajima, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Okada, K Okamoto, A Orii, K Sato, H Sekiya, M Shiozawa, Y Sonoda, Y Suzuki, A Takeda, Y Takemoto, A Takenaka, H Tanaka, S Tasaka, T Tomura, K Ueno, S Watanabe, T Yano, T Yokozawa, S Han, T Irvine, T Kajita, I Kametani, K Kaneyuki, KP Lee, T McLachlan, K Okumura, E Richard, T Tashiro, R Wang, J Xia, GD Megias, D Bravo-Berguño, L Labarga, B Zaldivar, M Goldhaber, FDM Blaszczyk, J Gustafson, C Kachulis, E Kearns, JL Raaf, JL Stone, LR Sulak, S Sussman, L Wan, T Wester, BW Pointon, J Bian, G Carminati, M Elnimr, NJ Griskevich, WR Kropp, S Locke, A Renshaw, MB Smy, HW Sobel, V Takhistov, P Weatherly, KS Ganezer, BL Hartfiel, J Hill, WE Keig, N Hong, JY Kim, IT Lim, RG Park, T Akiri, B Bodur, A Himmel, Z Li, E O'Sullivan, K Scholberg, CW Walter, T Wongjirad, L Bernard, A Coffani, O Drapier, S El Hedri, A Giampaolo, J Imber, Th A Mueller, P Paganini, B Quilain, T Ishizuka, T Nakamura, JS Jang, K Choi, JG Learned, S Matsuno, SN Smith, J Amey, LHV Anthony, RP Litchfield, WY Ma, D Marin, AA Sztuc, Y Uchida, MO Wascko, V Berardi, MG Catanesi, RA Intonti, E Radicioni, NF Calabria, G De Rosa, LN Machado, G Collazuol, F Iacob, M Lamoureux, N Ospina, L Ludovici, M Gonin, G Pronost, Y Maekawa, Y Nishimura, S Cao, M Friend, T Hasegawa, T Ishida, T Ishii, M Jakkapu, T Kobayashi, T Matsubara, T Nakadaira, K Nakamura, Y Oyama, K Sakashita, T Sekiguchi, T Tsukamoto, T Boschi, F Di Lodovico, J Migenda, S Molina Sedgwick, M Taani, S Zsoldos, KE Abe, M Hasegawa, Y Isobe, Y Kotsar, H Miyabe, H Ozaki, T Shiozawa, T Sugimoto, AT Suzuki, Y Takeuchi, S Yamamoto, A Ali, Y Ashida, C Bronner, J Feng, T Hayashino, T Hiraki, S Hirota, K Huang, M Jiang, T Kikawa, M Mori, A Murakami, KE Nakamura, T Nakaya, ND Patel, K Suzuki, S Takahashi, K Tateishi, RA Wendell, K Yasutome, P Fernandez, N McCauley, P Mehta, A Pritchard, KM Tsui, Y Fukuda, Y Itow, H Menjo, G Mitsuka, M Murase, F Muto, T Niwa, T Suzuki, M Tsukada, K Frankiewicz, P Mijakowski, J Hignight, J Jiang, CK Jung, X Li, JL Palomino, G Santucci, C Vilela, MJ Wilking, C Yanagisawa, D Fukuda, K Hagiwara, M Harada, T Horai, H Ishino, S Ito, T Kayano, A Kibayashi, H Kitagawa, Y Koshio, W Ma, T Mori, H Nagata, N Piplani, S Sakai, M Sakuda, Y Takahira, C Xu, R Yamaguchi, Y Kuno, G Barr, D Barrow, L Cook, A Goldsack, S Samani, C Simpson, D Wark, F Nova, R Tacik, JY Yang, A Cole, SJ Jenkins, M Malek, JM McElwee, O Stone, MD Thiesse, LF Thompson, H Okazawa, Y Choi, SB Kim, I Yu, AK Ichikawa, K Nakamura, K Ito, K Nishijima, RG Calland, P de Perio, K Martens, M Murdoch, MR Vagins, M Koshiba, Y Totsuka, K Iwamoto, Y Nakajima, N Ogawa, Y Suda, M Yokoyama, D Hamabe, S Izumiyama, M Kuze, Y Okajima, M Tanaka, T Yoshida, M Inomoto, M Ishitsuka, H Ito, R Matsumoto, K Ohta, M Shinoki, JF Martin, CM Nantais, HA Tanaka, T Towstego, R Akutsu, M Hartz, A Konaka, NW Prouse, S Chen, BD Xu, Y Zhang, S Berkman, S Tobayama, K Connolly, RJ Wilkes, M Posiadala-Zezula, D Hadley, B Richards, B Jamieson, J Walker, Ll Marti, A Minamino, K Okamoto, G Pintaudi, S Sano, R Sasaki, The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors from 2010 to 2021

Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 17:10 (2022) p10028

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, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, S Bordoni, SB Boyd, A Bravar, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, NF Calabria, S Cao, AJ Carter, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, J Chakrani, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, A Cudd, Yu I Davydov, A De Roeck, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, CC Delogu, C Densham, A Dergacheva, F Di Lodovico, S Dolan, D Douqa, TA Doyle, O Drapier, KE Duffy, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, K Dygnarowicz, A Eguchi, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ershova, S Fedotov, P Fernandez, AJ Finch, GA Fiorentini Aguirre, G Fiorillo, M Friend, Y Fujii, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, V Glagolev, M Gonin, EAG Goodman, A Gorin, M Grassi, M Guigue, DR Hadley, JT Haigh, P Hamacher-Baumann, DA Harris, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, A Hatzikoutelis, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, A Holin, TJ Holvey, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, M Ishitsuka, HT Israel, SJ Ives, 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, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, M Kawaue, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, S King, J Kisiel, A Knight, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, G Kogan, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, Y Kudenko, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, M La Commara, L Labarga, K Lachner, J Lagoda, SM Lakshmi, M Lamers James, I Lamont, M Lamoureux, D Last, N Latham, M Laveder, M Lawe, Y Lee, C Lin, T Lindner, S-K Lin, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, A Longhin, KR Long, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, M Mandal, S Manly, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, DGR Martin, M Martini, JF Martin, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, V Matveev, C Mauger, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, GD Megias, L Mellet, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, D Munford, L Munteanu, K Nagai, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, K Nakagiri, 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, F Nova, P Novella, 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, J Parlone, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, JD Perkin, D Pershey, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, YS Prabhu, 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, 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, H Su, IA Suslov, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, S Takayasu, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, VV Tereshchenko, N Teshima, N Thamm, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, A Vacheret, M Vagins, Z Vallari, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, T Wachala, AV Waldron, 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, U Yevarouskaya, M Yokoyama, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, R Zaki, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, X Zhao, T Zhu, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, S Zsoldos, The T2K Collaboration