1. Indication of electron neutrino appearance from an accelerator-produced off-axis muon neutrino beam
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S. Roth, J. Lagoda, M. Iwasaki, Paul Fraser Harrison, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Ikeda, M. Bass, F. Pierre, R. A. Wendell, C. Bojechko, C. W. Walter, B. A. Popov, Vincenzo Berardi, P. T. Le, P. Mijakowski, C. Licciardi, Tomoko Ariga, J. Ilic, M. Ravonel, T. Maruyama, E. L. Mathie, V. Galymov, T. Ishii, M. A. George, I. Taylor, G. Vasseur, T. Nakadaira, Kazuhiro Suzuki, M. Ieva, Hirokatsu Ohhata, Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, P. Paul, Kate Scholberg, M. M. Khabibullin, A. Yamamoto, Toru Ogitsu, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, T. Maryon, Michel Raymond, P. Kitching, R. Tacik, M. Hartz, G. Christodoulou, S. B. Boyd, J. R. Wilson, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, E. Frank, M. O. Wascko, C. A. Chavez, Marco Laveder, A. Ferrero, B. Hartfiel, A. C. Weber, E. Kearns, K. P. Lee, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, M. Szeptycka, M. M. Tanaka, Leigh H. Whitehead, J. P.A.M. De André, E. Mazzucato, Sy Suzuki, Y. Obayashi, K. Mavrokoridis, G. F. Pearce, J. J. Walding, A. Suzuki, J. Myslik, N. Grant, André Rubbia, M. 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Particle physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,ddc:500.2 ,CHOOZ ,01 natural sciences ,Particle identification ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,neutrino ,14.60.Pq, 13.15.+g, 25.30.Pt, 95.55.Vj ,0103 physical sciences ,neutrino oscillation ,Muon neutrino ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,010306 general physics ,Neutrino oscillation ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Physics ,NOνA ,Tribimaximal mixing ,hep-ex ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,T2K experiment ,Física ,T2K Collaboration ,particle identification ,Electron neutrino ,experimental results - Abstract
The T2K experiment observes indications of $\nu_\mu\rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance in data accumulated with $1.43\times10^{20}$ protons on target. Six events pass all selection criteria at the far detector. In a three-flavor neutrino oscillation scenario with $|\Delta m_{23}^2|=2.4\times10^{-3}$ eV$^2$, $\sin^2 2\theta_{23}=1$ and $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}=0$, the expected number of such events is 1.5$\pm$0.3(syst.). Under this hypothesis, the probability to observe six or more candidate events is 7$\times10^{-3}$, equivalent to 2.5$\sigma$ significance. At 90% C.L., the data are consistent with 0.03(0.04)$, Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, version published in PRL
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