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

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 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.

Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande

(2021)

Authors:

Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration, :, K Abe, P Adrich, H Aihara, R Akutsu, I Alekseev, A Ali, F Ameli, I Anghel, LHV Anthony, M Antonova, A Araya, Y Asaoka, Y Ashida, V Aushev, F Ballester, I Bandac, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M Bellato, V Berardi, M Bergevin, L Bernard, E Bernardini, L Berns, S Bhadra, J Bian, A Blanchet, FDM Blaszczyk, A Blondel, A Boiano, S Bolognesi, L Bonavera, N Booth, S Borjabad, T Boschi, D Bose, SB Boyd, C Bozza, A Bravar, D Bravo-Berguño, C Bronner, L Brown, A Bubak, A Buchowicz, M Buizza Avanzini, FS Cafagna, NF Calabria, JM Calvo-Mozota, S Cao, SL Cartwright, A Carroll, MG Catanesi, S Cebriàn, M Chabera, S Chakraborty, C Checchia, JH Choi, S Choubey, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, G Cowan, S Cuen-Rochin, M Danilov, G Daz Lopez, E De la Fuente, P de Perio, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, CJ Densham, A Dergacheva, N Deshmukh, MM Devi, F Di Lodovico, P Di Meo, I Di Palma, TA Doyle, E Drakopoulou, O Drapier, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, M Dziewiecki, L Eklund, S El Hedri, J Ellis, S Emery, A Esmaili, R Esteve, A Evangelisti, M Feely, S Fedotov, J Feng, P Fernandez, E Fernández-Martinez, P Ferrario, B Ferrazzi, T Feusels, A Finch, C Finley, A Fiorentini, G Fiorillo, M Fitton, K Frankiewicz, M Friend, Y Fujii, Y Fukuda, G Galinski, J Gao, C Garde, A Garfagnini, S Garode, L Gialanella, C Giganti, JJ Gomez-Cadenas, M Gonin, J González-Nuevo, A Gorin, R Gornea, V Gousy-Leblanc, F Gramegna, M Grassi, G Grella, M Guigue, P Gumplinger, DR Hadley, M Harada, B Hartfiel, M Hartz, S Hassani, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, JA Hernando-Morata, V Herrero, J Hill, K Hiraide, S Hirota, A Holin, S Horiuchi, K Hoshina, K Hultqvist, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, W Idrissi Ibnsalih, T Iijima, M Ikeda, M Inomoto, K Inoue, J Insler, A Ioannisian, T Ishida, K Ishidoshiro, H Ishino, M Ishitsuka, H Ito, S Ito, Y Itow, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, S Izumiyama, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, HI Jang, JS Jang, SJ Jenkins, SH Jeon, M Jiang, HS Jo, P Jonsson, KK Joo, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, Y Kano, P Kalaczynski, D Karlen, J Kasperek, Y Kataoka, A Kato, T Katori, N Kazarian, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, M Kikec, JH Kim, JY Kim, SB Kim, SY Kim, S King, T Kinoshita, J Kisiel, A Klekotko, T Kobayashi, L Koch, M Koga, L Koerich, N Kolev, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Korzenev, Y Kotsar, KA Kouzakov, KL Kowalik, L Kravchuk, AP Kryukov, Y Kudenko, T Kumita, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, K Kwak, M La Commara, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamers James, M Lamoureux, M Laveder, L Lavitola, M Lawe, JG Learned, J Lee, R Leitner, V Lezaun, IT Lim, T Lindner, RP Litchfield, KR Long, A Longhin, P Loverre, X Lu, L Ludovici, Y Maekawa, L Magaletti, K Magar, K Mahn, Y Makida, M Malek, M Malinský, T Marchi, L Maret, C Mariani, A Marinelli, K Martens, Ll Marti, JF Martin, D Martin, J Marzec, T Matsubara, R Matsumoto, S Matsuno, M Matusiak, E Mazzucato, M McCarthy, N McCauley, J McElwee, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, A Medhi, P Mehta, L Mellet, H Menjo, P Mermod, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, J Migenda, P Migliozzi, P Mijakowski, S Miki, EW Miller, H Minakata, A Minamino, S Mine, O Mineev, A Mitra, M Miura, R Moharana, CM Mollo, T Mondal, M Mongelli, F Monrabal, DH Moon, CS Moon, FJ Mora, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, L Munteanu, K Murase, Y Nagao, T Nakadaira, K Nakagiri, M Nakahata, S Nakai, Y Nakajima, K Nakamura, KI Nakamura, H Nakamura, Y Nakano, T Nakaya, S Nakayama, K Nakayoshi, L Nascimento Machado, CER Naseby, B Navarro-Garcia, M Needham, T Nicholls, K Niewczas, Y Nishimura, E Noah, F Nova, JC Nugent, H Nunokawa, W Obrebski, JP Ochoa-Ricoux, E O'Connor, N Ogawa, T Ogitsu, K Ohta, K Okamoto, HM O'Keeffe, K Okumura, Y Onishchuk, F Orozco-Luna, A Oshlianskyi, N Ospina, M Ostrowski, E O'Sullivan, L O'Sullivan, T Ovsiannikova, Y Oyama, H Ozaki, MY Pac, P Paganini, V Palladino, V Paolone, M Pari, S Parsa, J Pasternak, C Pastore, G Pastuszak, DA Patel, M Pavin, D Payne, C Peña-Garay, C Pidcott, E Pinzon Guerra, S Playfer, BW Pointon, A Popov, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, J-M Poutissou, J Pozimski, G Pronost, NW Prouse, P Przewlocki, B Quilain, AA Quiroga, E Radicioni, B Radics, PJ Rajda, J Renner, M Rescigno, F Retiere, G Ricciardi, C Riccio, B Richards, E Rondio, HJ Rose, B Roskovec, S Roth, C Rott, SD Rountree, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, C Ruggles, S Russo, A Rychter, D Ryu, K Sakashita, S Samani, F Sánchez, ML Sánchez, MC Sanchez, S Sano, JD Santos, G Santucci, P Sarmah, I Sashima, K Sato, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, JW Seo, SH Seo, D Sgalaberna, A Shaikhiev, Z Shan, A Shaykina, I Shimizu, CD Shin, M Shinoki, M Shiozawa, G Sinnis, N Skrobova, K Skwarczynski, MB Smy, J Sobczyk, HW Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, R Spina, B Spisso, P Spradlin, KL Stankevich, L Stawarz, SM Stellacci, K Stopa, AI Studenikin, SL Suárez Gómez, T Suganuma, S Suvorov, Y Suwa, AT Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, D Svirida, R Svoboda, M Taani, M Tada, A Takeda, Y Takemoto, A Takenaka, A Taketa, Y Takeuchi, V Takhistov, H Tanaka, HA Tanaka, HI Tanaka, M Tanaka, T Tashiro, M Thiesse, LF Thompson, J Toledo, AK Tomatani-Sánchez, G Tortone, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, MR Vagins, S Valder, V Valentino, G Vasseur, A Vijayvargi, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, D Vivolo, T Vladisavljevic, RB Vogelaar, MM Vyalkov, T Wachala, J Walker, D Wark, MO Wascko, RA Wendell, RJ Wilkes, MJ Wilking, JR Wilson, S Wronka, J Xia, Z Xie, T Xin, Y Yamaguchi, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, T Yano, S Yen, N Yershov, DN Yeum, M Yokoyama, M Yonenaga, J Yoo, I Yu, M Yu, T Zakrzewski, B Zaldivar, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, K Zietara, M Zito, S Zsoldos

Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with Wire-Cell LArTPC Event Reconstruction in the MicroBooNE Detector

(2021)

Authors:

MicroBooNE collaboration, P Abratenko, M Alrashed, R An, J Anthony, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, C Barnes, G Barr, V Basque, L Bathe-Peters, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bishai, A Blake, T Bolton, L Camilleri, D Caratelli, I Caro Terrazas, R Castillo Fernandez, F Cavanna, G Cerati, Y Chen, E Church, D Cianci, JM Conrad, M Convery, L Cooper-Troendle, JI Crespo-Anadon, M Del Tutto, D Devitt, R Diurba, L Domine, R Dorrill, K Duffy, S Dytman, B Eberly, A Ereditato, L Escudero Sanchez, JJ Evans, GA Fiorentini Aguirre, RS Fitzpatrick, BT Fleming, N Foppiani, D Franco, AP Furmanski, D Garcia-Gamez, S Gardiner, G Ge, S Gollapinni, O Goodwin, E Gramellini, P Green, H Greenlee, W Gu, R Guenette, P Guzowski, L Hagaman, E Hall, P Hamilton, O Hen, GA Horton-Smith, A Hourlier, EC Huang, R Itay, C James, J Jan de Vries, X Ji, L Jiang, JH Jo, RA Johnson, YJ Jwa, N Kamp, N Kaneshige, G Karagiorgi, W Ketchum, B Kirby, M Kirby, T Kobilarcik, I Kreslo, R LaZur, I Lepetic, K Li, Y Li, BR Littlejohn, D Lorca, WC Louis, X Luo, A Marchionni, C Mariani, D Marsden, J Marshall, J Martin-Albo, DA Martinez Caicedo, K Mason, A Mastbaum, N McConkey, V Meddage, T Mettler, K Miller, J Mills, K Mistry, T Mohayai, A Mogan, J Moon, M Mooney, AF Moor, CD Moore, L Mora Lepin, J Mousseau, M Murphy, D Naples, A Navrer-Agasson, RK Neely, P Nienaber, J Nowak, O Palamara, V Paolone, A Papadopoulou, V Papavassiliou, SF Pate, A Paudel, Z Pavlovic, E Piasetzky, I Ponce-Pinto, D Porzio, S Prince, X Qian, JL Raaf, V Radeka, A Rafique, M Reggiani-Guzzo, L Ren, L Rochester, J Rodriguez Rondon, HE Rogers, M Rosenberg, M Ross-Lonergan, B Russell, G Scanavini, DW Schmitz, A Schukraft, W Seligman, MH Shaevitz, R Sharankova, J Sinclair, A Smith, EL Snider, M Soderberg, S Soldner-Rembold, SR Soleti, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, M Stancari, J St John, T Strauss, K Sutton, S Sword-Fehlberg, AM Szelc, N Tagg, W Tang, K Terao, C Thorpe, M Toups, Y-T Tsai, S Tufanli, MA Uchida, T Usher, W Van De Pontseele, B Viren, M Weber, H Wei, Z Williams, S Wolbers, T Wongjirad, M Wospakrik, W Wu, E Yandel, T Yang, G Yarbrough, LE Yates, HW Yu, GP Zeller, J Zennamo, C Zhang

Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with $\mathbf{3.13\times10^{21}}$ protons on target

(2021)

Authors:

T2K Collaboration, 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 Bergu, 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, 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, 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 Jes, 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, 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, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, L Munteanu, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, VQ Nguyen, K Niewczas, Y Nishimura, 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, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, 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, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, C Ruggles, A Rychter, K Sakashita, F S, 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, 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, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, M Zito, S Zsoldos

Measurement of the Flux-Averaged Inclusive Charged-Current Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Section on Argon using the NuMI Beam and the MicroBooNE Detector

(2021)

Authors:

MicroBooNE collaboration, P Abratenko, M Alrashed, R An, J Anthony, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, C Barnes, G Barr, V Basque, L Bathe-Peters, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bishai, A Blake, T Bolton, L Camilleri, D Caratelli, I Caro Terrazas, R Castillo Fernandez, F Cavanna, G Cerati, Y Chen, E Church, D Cianci, JM Conrad, M Convery, L Cooper-Troendle, JI Crespo-Anadon, M Del Tutto, SR Dennis, D Devitt, R Diurba, L Domine, R Dorrill, K Duffy, S Dytman, B Eberly, A Ereditato, L Escudero Sanchez, JJ Evans, GA Fiorentini Aguirre, RS Fitzpatrick, BT Fleming, N Foppiani, D Franco, AP Furmanski, D Garcia-Gamez, S Gardiner, G Ge, S Gollapinni, O Goodwin, E Gramellini, P Green, H Greenlee, W Gu, R Guenette, P Guzowski, L Hagaman, E Hall, P Hamilton, O Hen, C Hill, GA Horton-Smith, A Hourlier, R Itay, C James, J Jan de Vries, X Ji, L Jiang, JH Jo, RA Johnson, YJ Jwa, N Kamp, N Kaneshige, G Karagiorgi, W Ketchum, B Kirby, M Kirby, T Kobilarcik, I Kreslo, R LaZur, I Lepetic, K Li, Y Li, BR Littlejohn, D Lorca, WC Louis, X Luo, A Marchionni, C Mariani, D Marsden, J Marshall, J Martin-Albo, DA Martinez Caicedo, K Mason, A Mastbaum, N McConkey, V Meddage, T Mettler, K Miller, J Mills, K Mistry, T Mohayai, A Mogan, J Moon, M Mooney, AF Moor, CD Moore, L Mora Lepin, J Mousseau, M Murphy, D Naples, A Navrer-Agasson, RK Neely, P Nienaber, J Nowak, O Palamara, V Paolone, A Papadopoulou, V Papavassiliou, SF Pate, A Paudel, Z Pavlovic, E Piasetzky, I Ponce-Pinto, D Porzio, S Prince, X Qian, JL Raaf, V Radeka, A Rafique, M Reggiani-Guzzo, L Ren, L Rochester, J Rodriguez Rondon, HE Rogers, M Rosenberg, M Ross-Lonergan, B Russell, G Scanavini, DW Schmitz, A Schukraft, W Seligman, MH Shaevitz, R Sharankova, J Sinclair, A Smith, EL Snider, M Soderberg, S Soldner-Rembold, SR Soleti, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, M Stancari, J St John, T Strauss, K Sutton, S Sword-Fehlberg, AM Szelc, N Tagg, W Tang, K Terao, C Thorpe, M Toups, Y-T Tsai, MA Uchida, T Usher, W Van De Pontseele, B Viren, M Weber, H Wei, Z Williams, S Wolbers, T Wongjirad, M Wospakrik, W Wu, E Yandel, T Yang, G Yarbrough, LE Yates, GP Zeller, J Zennamo, C Zhang