1. Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam
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Y. Yamada, E. Rondio, N. McCauley, K. Huang, M. Bass, S. L. Cartwright, K. Connolly, J. Kameda, P. Przewlocki, M. J. Wilking, J. Zmuda, L. L. Kormos, D. Brailsford, R. Ohta, André Rubbia, R. Poutissou, S. Takahashi, D. Terhorst, Lester D.R. Thompson, K. Zaremba, F. Sato, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, J. Kisiel, Berardi, R. P. Litchfield, F. Di Lodovico, C. Hearty, A. Izmaylov, J. Steinmann, Atsushi Takeda, A. Kilinski, C. W. Walter, K. Gilje, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, Alexander Finch, A. Clifton, T. Dealtry, A. Missert, A. Redij, S. Assylbekov, A. Longhin, L. Ludovici, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, Yu. G. Kudenko, J. Marteau, P. A. Rodrigues, M. Lawe, R. J. Smith, Z. Williamson, A. Kolaceke, H.A. Tanaka, P. Rojas, K. Nakayoshi, L. Monfregola, Kimihiro Okumura, P. Hamilton, S. Tobayama, Frédéric Dufour, T. Okusawa, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, S. Murphy, C. Licciardi, M. Ikeda, A. C. Kaboth, Y. Fukuda, Y. Totsuka, I. Lamont, D. Autiero, R. A. Johnson, M. Miura, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, F. Retiere, M. A.M. Rayner, T. Wachala, B. Quilain, Dennis, T. Wongjirad, M. Vagins, S. Horikawa, T. Akiri, S. Berkman, A. C. Weber, Robert Wilson, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, K. Mavrokoridis, J. Adam, J. Lagoda, Sy Suzuki, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, M. Murdoch, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Szeglowski, S. Yen, C. Bojechko, R. L. Helmer, Kendall Mahn, S. Kumaratunga, Yusuke Koshio, Galymov, M. Ravonel, Marco Laveder, D. Cherdack, K. Abe, R. Sacco, C. McGrew, Y. Kanazawa, B. Still, Masashi Tanaka, A. P. Furmanski, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, L. Koch, T. Sekiguchi, A. Hillairet, Y. Petrov, Ken Sakashita, C. Andreopoulos, A. Zalewska, K. Nishikawa, G. Christodoulou, D. Naples, T. Hara, A. Jacob, S. Manly, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, C. K. Jung, W. Toki, G. De Rosa, J. Holeczek, S. Nakayama, K. E. Duffy, Iain Alexander Bertram, S. W. K. Emery, K. Koseki, K. Iyogi, R. A. Owen, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, M. Ieva, Jan T. Sobczyk, C. J. Metelko, S. M. Oser, A. Dabrowska, S. Dytman, M. Barbi, N. Grant, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, G. Collazuol, E. D. Zimmerman, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, E. Mazzucato, H. Kubo, G. F. Pearce, Y. Seiya, M. Macaire, Masayuki Nakahata, A. Konaka, F. Bay, M. Posiadala, Y. Uchida, M. B. Smy, M. G. Catanesi, P. Plonski, R. Tacik, J. D. Perkin, Mark Scott, Oleg Mineev, J. Schwehr, O. Perevozchikov, Hajime Tanaka, M. Gonin, Takahiro Hiraki, C. Pistillo, L. Escudero, P. de Perio, S. Bordoni, D. Goeldi, S. Di Luise, L. Cremonesi, Hadley, T. Yuan, Palladino, T. J. Irvine, M. Ziembicki, J. Zalipska, J. Insler, K. Laihem, Y. Suda, Henry W. Sobel, T. Lindner, W. Oryszczak, D. Sgalaberna, C. Densham, M. Sorel, B. Smith, O. Drapier, M. Nirkko, E. Reinherz-Aronis, Michal Dziewiecki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, R. A. Wendell, Y. Nishimura, Takaaki Kajita, Matveev, K. Ueno, A. K. Ichikawa, Tomoko Ariga, Y. Shustrov, S. Hirota, B. E. Berger, S. Roth, M. Mezzetto, A. Cervera, Federico Sanchez, G. Vasseur, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, Th. A. Mueller, M. Zito, Matthew T. Reeves, J. Marzec, Paolone, D. Payne, H. Kakuno, I. Kreslo, C. Nielsen, H. M. O'Keeffe, E. Scantamburlo, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, E. Kearns, C. Lister, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, Akitaka Ariga, T. Tsukamoto, L. Zambelli, B. A. Popov, Shigeki Aoki, T. Maruyama, L. Pickard, R. Terri, S. Giffin, Wilson, Kate Scholberg, T. Nakadaira, J. H. Jo, A. Murakami, M. Hartz, I. Z. Danko, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, G.D. Barr, A. Minamino, M. Malek, Rhiju Das, B. Jamieson, K. P. Lee, I. Karpikov, S. J. Coleman, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, C. Touramanis, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, T. Golan, Kevin Scott McFarland, T. Kikawa, Takashi Kobayashi, J. Dumarchez, L. Floetotto, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, S. J. Ives, C. A. Miller, T. Tomura, E. L. Mathie, S. B. Boyd, T. Ishii, M. M. Khabibullin, K. Suzuki, M. McCarthy, Y. Takeuchi, T. Ishida, D. Ruterbories, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, Koji Nakamura, A. N. Khotjantsev, Y. Fujii, A. Suzuki, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, M. Friend, A. Bravar, Masato Shiozawa, M. Tada, A. Haesler, P. Jonsson, S. Bhadra, P. Sinclair, Arnaud Robert, P. Mijakowski, Jy Kim, A. Himmel, E. Radicioni, R. G. Calland, D. Gudin, M. Lazos, D. L. Wark, A. D. Marino, A. Blondel, N. J. Buchanan, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, C. Wilkinson, C. Yanagisawa, Gareth J. Barker, M. Hierholzer, J. P. Coleman, Yoshinari Hayato, Haigh, T. Duboyski, T. Nakai, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, T2K, K., Abe, J., Adam, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, C., Andreopoulo, S., Aoki, A., Ariga, T., Ariga, S., Assylbekov, D., Autiero, M., Barbi, G., Barker, G., Barr, M., Ba, M., Batkiewicz, F., Bay, S., Bentham, V., Berardi, B., Berger, S., Berkman, I., Bertram, S., Bhadra, F., Blaszczyk, A., Blondel, C., Bojechko, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, D., Brailsford, A., Bravar, C., Bronner, N., Buchanan, R., Calland, J. C., Rodr??????guez, S., Cartwright, R., Castillo, M., Catanesi, A., Cervera, D., Cherdack, G., Christodoulou, A., Clifton, J., Coleman, S., Coleman, G., Collazuol, K., Connolly, L., Cremonesi, A., Dabrowska, I., Danko, R., Da, S., Davi, P. D., Perio, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, T., Dealtry, S., Denni, C., Densham, F. D., Lodovico, S. D., Luise, O., Drapier, T., Duboyski, K., Duffy, F., Dufour, J., Dumarchez, S., Dytman, M., Dziewiecki, S., Emery, A., Ereditato, L., Escudero, A., Finch, L., Floetotto, M., Friend, Y., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, A., Furmanski, V., Galymov, A., Gaudin, S., Giffin, C., Giganti, K., Gilje, D., Goeldi, T., Golan, J., Gomez Cadena, M., Gonin, N., Grant, D., Gudin, D., Hadley, A., Haesler, M., Haigh, P., Hamilton, D., Hansen, T., Hara, M., Hartz, T., Hasegawa, N., Hasting, Y., Hayato, C., Hearty, R., Helmer, M., Hierholzer, J., Hignight, A., Hillairet, A., Himmel, T., Hiraki, S., Hirota, J., Holeczek, S., Horikawa, K., Huang, A., Ichikawa, K., Ieki, M., Ieva, M., Ikeda, J., Imber, J., Insler, T., Irvine, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, S., Ive, K., Iyogi, A., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, B., Jamieson, R., Johnson, J., Jo, P., Jonsson, C., Jung, A., Kaboth, T., Kajita, H., Kakuno, J., Kameda, Y., Kanazawa, D., Karlen, I., Karpikov, E., Kearn, M., Khabibullin, A., Khotjantsev, D., Kielczewska, T., Kikawa, A., Kilinski, J., Kim, J., Kisiel, P., Kitching, T., Kobayashi, L., Koch, A., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, L., Kormo, A., Korzenev, K., Koseki, Y., Koshio, I., Kreslo, W., Kropp, H., Kubo, Y., Kudenko, S., Kumaratunga, R., Kurjata, T., Kutter, J., Lagoda, K., Laihem, I., Lamont, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazo, K., Lee, C., Licciardi, T., Lindner, C., Lister, R., Litchfield, A., Longhin, L., Ludovici, M., Macaire, L., Magaletti, K., Mahn, M., Malek, S., Manly, A., Marino, J., Marteau, J., Martin, T., Maruyama, J., Marzec, E., Mathie, V., Matveev, K., Mavrokoridi, E., Mazzucato, M., Mccarthy, N., Mccauley, K., Mcfarland, C., Mcgrew, C., Metelko, M., Mezzetto, P., Mijakowski, C., Miller, A., Minamino, O., Mineev, S., Mine, A., Missert, M., Miura, L., Monfregola, S., Moriyama, T., Mueller, A., Murakami, M., Murdoch, S., Murphy, J., Myslik, T., Nagasaki, T., Nakadaira, M., Nakahata, T., Nakai, K., Nakamura, S., Nakayama, T., Nakaya, K., Nakayoshi, D., Naple, C., Nielsen, M., Nirkko, K., Nishikawa, Y., Nishimura, H., O'Keeffe, R., Ohta, K., Okumura, T., Okusawa, W., Oryszczak, S., Oser, R., Owen, Y., Oyama, Palladino, Vittorio, V., Paolone, D., Payne, G., Pearce, O., Perevozchikov, J., Perkin, Y., Petrov, L., Pickard, E. P., Guerra, C., Pistillo, P., Plonski, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala, J., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, B., Quilain, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, M., Ravonel, M., Rayner, A., Redij, M., Reeve, E., Reinherz Aroni, F., Retiere, A., Robert, P., Rodrigue, P., Roja, E., Rondio, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., S??????nchez, F., Sato, E., Scantamburlo, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, D., Sgalaberna, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, Y., Shustrov, P., Sinclair, B., Smith, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, L., Southwell, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, Y., Suda, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, R., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takeuchi, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, S., Tobayama, W., Toki, T., Tomura, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, A., Waldron, C., Walter, D., Wark, M., Wascko, A., Weber, R., Wendell, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, C., Wilkinson, Z., Williamson, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, Muda, J. ?. ?. ?., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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General Physics ,Particle physics ,Solar neutrino ,Physics, Multidisciplinary ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,7. Clean energy ,09 Engineering ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Tau neutrino ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,Neutrino oscillation ,01 Mathematical Sciences ,Physics ,Science & Technology ,02 Physical Sciences ,hep-ex ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,T2K experiment ,Física ,Solar neutrino problem ,Neutrino detector ,T2K Collaboration ,Physical Sciences ,Measurements of neutrino speed ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino - Abstract
The T2K experiment has observed electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam produced 295 km from the Super-Kamiokande detector with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV. A total of 28 electron neutrino events were detected with an energy distribution consistent with an appearance signal, corresponding to a significance of 7.3$\sigma$ when compared to 4.92 $\pm$ 0.55 expected background events. In the PMNS mixing model, the electron neutrino appearance signal depends on several parameters including three mixing angles $\theta_{12}$, $\theta_{23}$, $\theta_{13}$, a mass difference $\Delta m^2_{32}$ and a CP violating phase $\delta_{\mathrm{CP}}$. In this neutrino oscillation scenario, assuming $|\Delta m^2_{32}| = 2.4 \times 10^{-3}$ $\rm eV^2$, $\sin^2 \theta_{23} = 0.5$, and $\Delta m^2_{32} >0$ ($\Delta m^2_{32}, Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures
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- 2014