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101. Sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium to Low Energy Antineutrinos from Pre-supernova Emission

Author

Simpson, C, Abe, K, Bronner, C, Hayato, Y, Ikeda, M, Ito, H, Iyogi, K, Kameda, J, Kataoka, Y, Kato, Y, Kishimoto, Y, Marti, Ll, Miura, M, Moriyama, S, Mochizuki, T, Nakahata, M, Nakajima, Y, Nakayama, S, Okada, T, Okamoto, K, Orii, A, Pronost, G, Sekiya, H, Shiozawa, M, Sonoda, Y, Takeda, A, Takenaka, A, Tanaka, H, Yano, T, Akutsu, R, Kajita, T, Okumura, K, Wang, R, Xia, J, Bravo-Berguño, D, Labarga, L, Fernandez, P, Blaszczyk, FDM, Kachulis, C, Kearns, E, Raaf, JL, Stone, JL, Wan, L, Wester, T, Sussman, S, Berkman, S, Bian, J, Griskevich, NJ, Kropp, WR, Locke, S, Mine, S, Smy, MB, Sobel, HW, Takhistov, V, Weatherly, P, Ganezer, KS, Hill, J, Kim, JY, Lim, IT, Park, RG, Bodur, B, Scholberg, K, Walter, CW, Coffani, A, Drapier, O, Gonin, M, Imber, J, Mueller, Th A, Paganini, P, Ishizuka, T, Nakamura, T, Jang, JS, Choi, K, Learned, JG, Matsuno, S, Litchfield, RP, Sztuc, AA, Uchida, Y, Wascko, MO, Berardi, V, Calabria, NF, Catanesi, MG, Intonti, RA, Radicioni, E, De Rosa, G, Collazuol, G, Iacob, F, Ludovici, L, Nishimura, Y, Cao, S, Friend, M, Hasegawa, T, Ishida, T, Kobayashi, T, Nakadaira, T, Nakamura, K, Oyama, Y, Sakashita, K, Sekiguchi, T, and Tsukamoto, T

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Neutrino astronomy, Supernova neutrinos, Particle astrophysics, Silicon burning, astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics, Space sciences
Abstract

Supernova detection is a major objective of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment. In the next stage of SK (SK-Gd), gadolinium (Gd) sulfate will be added to the detector, which will improve the ability of the detector to identify neutrons. A core-collapse supernova (CCSN) will be preceded by an increasing flux of neutrinos and antineutrinos, from thermal and weak nuclear processes in the star, over a timescale of hours; some of which may be detected at SK-Gd. This could provide an early warning of an imminent CCSN, hours earlier than the detection of the neutrinos from core collapse. Electron antineutrino detection will rely on inverse beta decay events below the usual analysis energy threshold of SK, so Gd loading is vital to reduce backgrounds while maximizing detection efficiency. Assuming normal neutrino mass ordering, more than 200 events could be detected in the final 12 hr before core collapse for a 15-25 solar mass star at around 200 pc, which is representative of the nearest red supergiant to Earth, α-Ori (Betelgeuse). At a statistical false alarm rate of 1 per century, detection could be up to 10 hr before core collapse, and a pre-supernova star could be detected by SK-Gd up to 600 pc away. A pre-supernova alert could be provided to the astrophysics community following gadolinium loading.

Published
2019

102. Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with improved event reconstruction in Super-Kamiokande IV

Author

Jiang, M, Abe, K, Bronner, C, Hayato, Y, Ikeda, M, Iyogi, K, Kameda, J, Kato, Y, Kishimoto, Y, Marti, LL, Miura, M, Moriyama, S, Mochizuki, T, Nakahata, M, Nakajima, Y, Nakano, Y, Nakayama, S, Okada, T, Okamoto, K, Orii, A, Pronost, G, Sekiya, H, Shiozawa, M, Sonoda, Y, Takeda, A, Takenaka, A, Tanaka, H, Yano, T, Akutsu, R, Kajita, T, Nishimura, Y, Okumura, K, Wang, R, Xia, J, Labarga, L, Fernandez, P, Blaszczyk, FDM, Kachulis, C, Kearns, E, Raaf, JL, Stone, JL, Sussman, S, Berkman, S, Bian, J, Griskevich, NJ, Kropp, WR, Locke, S, Mine, S, Weatherly, P, Smy, MB, Sobel, HW, Takhistov, V, Ganezer, KS, Hill, J, Kim, JY, Lim, IT, Park, RG, Bodur, B, Scholberg, K, Walter, CW, Gonin, M, Imber, J, Mueller, Th A, Ishizuka, T, Nakamura, T, Jang, JS, Choi, K, Learned, JG, Matsuno, S, Litchfield, RP, Uchida, Y, Wascko, MO, Calabria, NF, Catanesi, MG, Intonti, RA, Radicioni, E, De Rosa, G, Ali, A, Collazuol, G, Iacob, F, Ludovici, L, Cao, S, Friend, M, Hasegawa, T, Ishida, T, Kobayashi, T, Nakadaira, T, Nakamura, K, Oyama, Y, Sakashita, K, Sekiguchi, T, Tsukamoto, T, Abe, KE, Hasegawa, M, Isobe, Y, Miyabe, H, Sugimoto, T, Suzuki, AT, Takeuchi, Y, and Ashida, Y

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Mathematical Sciences
Abstract

A new event reconstruction algorithm based on a maximum likelihood method has been developed for Super-Kamiokande. Its improved kinematic and particle identification capabilities enable the analysis of atmospheric neutrino data in a detector volume 32% larger than previous analyses and increase the sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy.Analysis of a 253.9 kton•year exposure of the Super-Kamiokande IV atmospheric neutrino data has yielded a weak preference for the normal hierarchy, disfavoring the inverted hierarchy at 74% assuming oscillations at the best fit of the analysis.

Published
2019

103. Probing for high momentum protons in $^4$He via the $^4He(e,e'p)X$ reaction

Author

Iqbal, S, Benmokhtar, F, Ivanov, M, See, N, Aniol, K, Higinbotham, DW, Boyd, C, Gadsby, A, Gilad, S, Saha, A, Udias, JM, Goodwill, JS, Finton, D, Boyer, A, Ye, Z, Solvignon, P, Aguilera, P, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Allada, K, Anderson, B, Anez, D, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Baghdasaryan, H, Bai, X, Beck, A, Beck, S, Bellini, V, Camsonne, A, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chirapatpimol, K, Cisbani, E, Dalton, MM, Daniel, A, Day, D, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Flay, D, Fomin, N, Friend, M, Frullani, S, Fuchey, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilman, R, Glamazdin, S, Gu, C, Gueye, P, Hanretty, C, Hansen, J-O, Shabestari, M Hashemi, Huang, M, Jin, G, Kalantarians, N, Kang, H, Kelleher, A, Korover, I, LeRose, J, Leckey, J, Lindgren, R, Long, E, Mammei, J, Margaziotis, DJ, Markowitz, P, Meekins, D, Meziani, Z, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Muangma, N, Camacho, C Munoz, Norum, B, Nuruzzaman, Nuruzzaman, Pan, K, Phillips, S, Piasetzky, E, Pomerantz, I, Posik, M, Punjabi, V, Qian, X, Qiang, Y, Qiu, X, Reimer, PE, Rakhman, A, Riordan, S, Ron, G, Rondon-Aramayo, O, Selvy, L, Shahinyan, A, Shneor, R, Sirca, S, Slifer, K, Sparveris, N, Subedi, R, Sulkosky, V, Wang, D, Watson, JW, and Weinstein, LB

Subjects
nucl-ex
Abstract

Experimental cross sections for the $^4He(e,e'p)X$ reaction up to a missingmomentum of 0.632 GeV/$c$ at $x_B=1.24$ and $Q^2$=2(GeV/$c$)$^2$ are reported.The data are compared to Relativistic Distorted Wave ImpulseApproximation(RDWIA) calculations for $^4He(e,e'p)^3H$ channel. Significantlymore events in the triton mass region are measured for $p_{m}$$>$0.45 GeV/$c$than are predicted by the theoretical model, suggesting that the effects ofinitial-state multi-nucleon correlations are stronger than expected by theRDWIA model.

Published
2019

104. Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

Author

Wan, L, Abe, K, Bronner, C, Hayato, Y, Ikeda, M, Iyogi, K, Kameda, J, Kato, Y, Kishimoto, Y, Marti, Ll, Miura, M, Moriyama, S, Mochizuki, T, Nakahata, M, Nakajima, Y, Nakano, Y, Nakayama, S, Okada, T, Okamoto, K, Orii, A, Pronost, G, Sekiya, H, Shiozawa, M, Sonoda, Y, Takeda, A, Takenaka, A, Tanaka, H, Yano, T, Akutsu, R, Kajita, T, Nishimura, Y, Okumura, K, Wang, R, Xia, J, Labarga, L, Fernandez, P, Blaszczyk, FDM, Kachulis, C, Kearns, E, Raaf, JL, Stone, JL, Sussman, S, Berkman, S, Bian, J, Griskevich, NJ, Kropp, WR, Locke, S, Mine, S, Weatherly, P, Smy, MB, Sobel, HW, Takhistov, V, Ganezer, KS, Hill, J, Kim, JY, Lim, IT, Park, RG, Bodur, B, Scholberg, K, Walter, CW, Gonin, M, Imber, J, Mueller, Th A, Ishizuka, T, Nakamura, T, Jang, JS, Choi, K, Learned, JG, Matsuno, S, Litchfield, RP, Uchida, Y, Wascko, MO, Calabria, NF, Catanesi, MG, Intonti, RA, Radicioni, E, De Rosa, G, Ali, A, Collazuol, G, Iacob, F, Ludovici, L, Cao, S, Friend, M, Hasegawa, T, Ishida, T, Kobayashi, T, Nakadaira, T, Nakamura, K, Oyama, Y, Sakashita, K, Sekiguchi, T, Tsukamoto, T, Abe, KE, Hasegawa, M, Isobe, Y, Miyabe, H, Sugimoto, T, Suzuki, AT, Takeuchi, Y, and Ashida, Y

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract

Neutral current (NC) interactions of atmospheric neutrinos on oxygen form one of the major backgrounds in the search for supernova relic neutrinos with water-based Cherenkov detectors. The NC channel is dominated by neutrino quasielastic (NCQE) scattering off nucleons inside O16 nuclei. In this paper we report the first measurement of NCQE cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande (SK). The measurement used 2,778 live days of SK-IV data with a fiducial volume of 22.5 kiloton water. Within the visible energy window of 7.5-29.5 MeV, we observed 117 events compared to the expected 71.9 NCQE signal and 53.1 background events. Weighted by the atmospheric neutrino spectrum from 160 MeV to 10 GeV, the flux averaged NCQE cross section is measured to be (1.01±0.17(stat.)-0.30+0.78(sys.))×10-38 cm2.

Published
2019

105. Search for solar electron anti-neutrinos due to spin-flavor precession in the Sun with Super-Kamiokande-IV

Author

Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Marti, Ll., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F.d.M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J.L., Stone, J.L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B.W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N.J., Kropp, W.R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M.B., Sobel, H.W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Hill, J., Kim, J.Y., Lim, I.T., Park, R.G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C.W., Bernard, L., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th.A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J.S., Learned, J.G., Anthony, L.H.V., Sztuc, A.A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M.G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N.F., Machado, L.N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Suzuki, A.T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Ichikawa, A.K., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R.A., Yasutome, Y., Fernandez, P., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K.M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Jung, C.K., Vilela, C., Wilking, M.J., Yanagisawa, C., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Goldsack, A., Samani, S., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Taani, M., Migenda, J., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Zsoldos, S., Yang, J.Y., Jenkins, S.J., Malek, M., McElwee, J.M., Stone, O., Thiesse, M.D., Thompson, L.F., Okazawa, H., Kim, S.B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Vagins, M.R., Izumiyama, S., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J.F., Tanaka, H.A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N.W., Chen, S., Xu, B.D., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., Sasaki, R., and Posiadala-Zezula, M.

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2022
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106. First gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande

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Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Kameda, J., Kanemura, Y., Kataoka, Y., Miki, S., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Watanabe, S., Yano, T., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Xia, J., Megias, G.D., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Marti, Ll., Zaldivar, B., Pointon, B.W., Blaszczyk, F.d.M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J.L., Stone, J.L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Bian, J., Griskevich, N.J., Kropp, W.R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M.B., Sobel, H.W., Takhistov, V., Hill, J., Kim, J.Y., Lim, I.T., Park, R.G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C.W., Bernard, L., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th.A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J.S., Learned, J.G., Anthony, L.H.V., Martin, D., Scott, M., Sztuc, A.A., Uchida, Y., Cao, S., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M.G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N.F., Machado, L.N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Mattiazzi, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Maekawa, Y., Nishimura, Y., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Jakkapu, M., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Boschi, T., Gao, J., Di Lodovico, F., Migenda, J., Taani, M., Zsoldos, S., Kotsar, Y., Nakano, Y., Ozaki, H., Shiozawa, T., Suzuki, A.T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R.A., Yasutome, K., Fernandez, P., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Tsui, K.M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Tsukada, M., Lagoda, J., Lakshmi, S.M., Mijakowski, P., Zalipska, J., Jiang, J., Jung, C.K., Vilela, C., Wilking, M.J., Yanagisawa, C., Hagiwara, K., Harada, M., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Kitagawa, F., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Goldsack, A., Samani, S., Wark, D., Nova, F., Yang, J.Y., Jenkins, S.J., Malek, M., McElwee, J.M., Stone, O., Thiesse, M.D., Thompson, L.F., Okazawa, H., Kim, S.B., Seo, J.W., Yu, I., Ichikawa, A.K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Nakajima, Y., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Vagins, M.R., Kuze, M., Izumiyama, S., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Ito, H., Kinoshita, T., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Suganuma, T., Martin, J.F., Tanaka, H.A., Towstego, T., Akutsu, R., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N.W., Chen, S., Xu, B.D., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Hadley, D., O’Flaherty, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., Sano, S., and Sasaki, R.

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2022
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107. A Measurement of the Tau Neutrino Cross Section in Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Super-Kamiokande

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Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Li, Z., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Fernandez, P., Labarga, L., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Sedgwick, S. M., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Minamino, A., and Wilkes, R. J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Using 5,326 days of atmospheric neutrino data, a search for atmospheric tau neutrino appearance has been performed in the Super-Kamiokande experiment. Super-Kamiokande measures the tau normalization to be 1.47$\pm$0.32 under the assumption of normal neutrino hierarchy, relative to the expectation of unity with neutrino oscillation. The result excludes the hypothesis of no-tau-appearance with a significance level of 4.6$\sigma$. The inclusive charged-current tau neutrino cross section averaged by the tau neutrino flux at Super-Kamiokande is measured to be $(0.94\pm0.20)\times 10^{-38}$ cm$^{2}$. The measurement is consistent with the Standard Model prediction, agreeing to within 1.5$\sigma$.

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2017
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108. Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting With Electrons in Super-Kamiokande

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Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Kachulis, C., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk., F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Wascko, Y. Uchida. M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Quilain, B., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Wilkes, R. J., and Minamino, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

A search for boosted dark matter using 161.9 kiloton-years of Super-Kamiokande IV data is presented. We search for an excess of elastically scattered electrons above the atmospheric neutrino background, with a visible energy between 100 MeV and 1 TeV, pointing back to the Galactic Center or the Sun. No such excess is observed. Limits on boosted dark matter event rates in multiple angular cones around the Galactic Center and Sun are calculated. Limits are also calculated for a baseline model of boosted dark matter produced from cold dark matter annihilation or decay.

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2017
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109. Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with external constraints in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

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Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Bronner, C., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Richard, E., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Murase, M., Muto, F., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Quilain, B., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., de Perio, P., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Wilkes, R. J., and Minamino, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

An analysis of atmospheric neutrino data from all four run periods of \superk optimized for sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy is presented. Confidence intervals for $\Delta m^2_{32}$, $\sin^2 \theta_{23}$, $\sin^2 \theta_{13}$ and $\delta_{CP}$ are presented for normal neutrino mass hierarchy and inverted neutrino mass hierarchy hypotheses based on atmospheric neutrino data alone. Additional constraints from reactor data on $\theta_{13}$ and from published binned T2K data on muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance are added to the atmospheric neutrino fit to give enhanced constraints on the above parameters. Over the range of parameters allowed at 90% confidence level, the normal mass hierarchy is favored by between 91.5% and 94.5% based on the combined result., Comment: 22 pages, 29 figures, final version submitted for publication

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2017
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110. First measurement of the $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross section without pions in the final state on a water target

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T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walter, C. W., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This paper reports the first differential measurement of the charged-current interaction cross section of $\nu_{\mu}$ on water with no pions in the final state. This flux-averaged measurement has been made using the T2K experiment's off-axis near detector, and is reported in doubly-differential bins of muon momentum and angle. The flux-averaged total cross section in a restricted region of phase space was found to be $ \sigma= (0.95 \pm 0.08 (\mbox{stat}) \pm 0.06 (\mbox{det. syst.}) \pm 0.04(\mbox{model syst.}) \pm{} 0.08(\mbox{flux}) ) \times 10^{-38} \mbox{cm}^2$ per n.

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2017
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111. Search for an excess of events in the Super-Kamiokande detector in the directions of the astrophysical neutrinos reported by the IceCube Collaboration

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Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Bronner, C., Pronost, G., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Minamino, A., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Quilain, B., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We present the results of a search in the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector for excesses of neutrinos with energies above a few GeV that are in the direction of the track events reported in IceCube. Data from all SK phases (SK-I through SK-IV) were used, spanning a period from April 1996 to April 2016 and corresponding to an exposure of 225 kilotonne-years . We considered the 14 IceCube track events from a data set with 1347 livetime days taken from 2010 to 2014. We use Poisson counting to determine if there is an excess of neutrinos detected in SK in a 10 degree search cone (5 degrees for the highest energy data set) around the reconstructed direction of the IceCube event. No significant excess was found in any of the search directions we examined. We also looked for coincidences with a recently reported IceCube multiplet event. No events were detected within a $\pm$ 500 s time window around the first detected event, and no significant excess was seen from that direction over the lifetime of SK., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, Matches version published in Astrophysical Journal

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2017
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112. Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment including a new additional sample of $\nu_e$ interactions at the far detector

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Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The T2K experiment reports an updated analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in appearance and disappearance channels. A sample of electron neutrino candidates at Super-Kamiokande in which a pion decay has been tagged is added to the four single-ring samples used in previous T2K oscillation analyses. Through combined analyses of these five samples, simultaneous measurements of four oscillation parameters, $|\Delta m^2_{32}|$, $\sin^2(\theta_{23})$, $\sin^2(\theta_{13})$, and $\delta_{CP}$ and of the mass ordering are made. A set of studies of simulated data indicates that the sensitivity to the oscillation parameters is not limited by neutrino interaction model uncertainty. Multiple oscillation analyses are performed, and frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of the oscillation parameters with and without the inclusion of reactor constraints on $\sin^2(\theta_{13})$. When combined with reactor measurements, the hypothesis of CP conservation ($\delta_{CP}$$=0$ or $\pi$) is excluded at 90% confidence level. The 90% confidence region for $\delta_{CP}$ is [-2.95,-0.44] ([-1.47, -1.27]) for normal (inverted) ordering. The central values and 68\% confidence intervals for the other oscillation parameters for normal (inverted) ordering are $\Delta m^{2}_{32}=2.54\pm0.08$ ($2.51\pm0.08$) $\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2 / c^4$ and $\sin^2(\theta_{23}) = 0.55^{+0.05}_{-0.09}$ ($0.55^{+0.05}_{-0.08}$), compatible with maximal mixing. In the Bayesian analysis, the data weakly prefer normal ordering (Bayes factor 3.7) and the upper octant for $\sin^2(\theta_{23})$ (Bayes factor 2.4)., Comment: 50 pages, 50 figures

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2017
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113. Measurement of $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ and $\nu_{\mu}$ charged current inclusive cross sections and their ratio with the T2K off-axis near detector

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Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report a measurement of cross section $\sigma(\nu_{\mu}+{\rm nucleus}\rightarrow\mu^{-}+X)$ and the first measurements of the cross section $\sigma(\bar{\nu}_{\mu}+{\rm nucleus}\rightarrow\mu^{+}+X)$ and their ratio $R(\frac{\sigma(\bar \nu)}{\sigma(\nu)})$ at (anti-)neutrino energies below 1.5 GeV. We determine the single momentum bin cross section measurements, averaged over the T2K $\bar{\nu}/\nu$-flux, for the detector target material (mainly Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen and Copper) with phase space restricted laboratory frame kinematics of $\theta_{\mu}<32^\circ$ and $p_{\mu}>$500 MeV/c. The results are $\sigma(\bar{\nu})=\left( 0.900\pm0.029{\rm (stat.)}\pm0.088{\rm (syst.)}\right)\times10^{-39}$ and $\sigma(\nu)=\left( 2.41\ \pm0.022{\rm{(stat.)}}\pm0.231{\rm (syst.)}\ \right)\times10^{-39}$ in units of cm$^{2}$/nucleon and $R\left(\frac{\sigma(\bar{\nu})}{\sigma(\nu)}\right)= 0.373\pm0.012{\rm (stat.)}\pm0.015{\rm (syst.)}$., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures

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2017
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114. Measurement of the single $\pi^0$ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water

Author

T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cremonesi, L., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunkman, M., Dunne, P., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S. G., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The single $\pi^0$ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water in a neutrino beam with a peak neutrino energy of 0.6 GeV has been measured using the P{\O}D, one of the subdetectors of the T2K near detector. The production rate was measured for data taking periods when the P{\O}D contained water ($2.64\times{}10^{20}$ protons-on-target) and also periods without water ($3.49 \times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target). A measurement of the neutral current single $\pi^0$ production rate on water is made using appropriate subtraction of the production rate with water in from the rate with water out of the target region. The subtraction analysis yields 106 $\pm$ 41 (stat.) $\pm$ 69 (sys.) signal events, which is consistent with the prediction of 157 events from the nominal simulation. The measured to expected ratio is 0.68 $\pm$ 0.26 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.44 (sys.) $\pm$ 0.12 (flux). The nominal simulation uses a flux integrated cross section of $7.63\times{}10^{-39}$ cm${}^2$ per nucleon with an average neutrino interaction energy of 1.3 GeV., Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures

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2017
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115. Updated T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 1.5e21 protons on target

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Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report measurements by the T2K experiment of the parameters $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m^{2}_{32}$ governing the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos in the three flavor neutrino oscillation model. Utilizing the ability of the experiment to run with either a mainly neutrino or a mainly antineutrino beam, the parameters are measured separately for neutrinos and antineutrinos. Using $7.482 \times 10^{20}$ POT in neutrino running mode and $7.471 \times 10^{20}$ POT in antineutrino mode, T2K obtained, $\sin^{2}(\theta_{23})=0.51^{+0.08}_{-0.07}$ and $\Delta m^{2}_{32} = 2.53^{+0.15}_{-0.13} \times 10^{-3}$eV$^{2}$/c$^{4}$ for neutrinos, and $\sin^{2}({\overline{\theta}}_{23})=0.42^{+0.25}_{-0.07}$ and ${\Delta\overline{m}^2}_{32} = 2.55^{+0.33}_{-0.27} \times 10^{-3}$eV$^{2}$/c$^{4}$ for antineutrinos (assuming normal mass ordering). No significant differences between the values of the parameters describing the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos were observed., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures

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2017
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116. A Glimpse of Gluons through Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Proton

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Defurne, M., Jiménez-Argüello, A. Martì, Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., Benali, M., Boeglin, W., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Chandavar, S., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Desnault, C., Deur, A., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Flay, D., Friend, M., Fuchey, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Hyde, C. E., Iqbal, S., Itard, F., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Koirala, S., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Magne, M., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Mazouz, M., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabatié, F., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Solvignon, P., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The proton is composed of quarks and gluons, bound by the most elusive mechanism of strong interaction called confinement. In this work, the dynamics of quarks and gluons are investigated using deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS): produced by a multi-GeV electron, a highly virtual photon scatters off the proton which subsequently radiates a high energy photon. Similarly to holography, measuring not only the magnitude but also the phase of the DVCS amplitude allows to perform 3D images of the internal structure of the proton. The phase is made accessible through the quantum-mechanical interference of DVCS with the Bethe-Heitler (BH) process, in which the final photon is emitted by the electron rather than the proton. We report herein the first full determination of the BH-DVCS interference by exploiting the distinct energy dependences of the DVCS and BH amplitudes. In the high energy regime where the scattering process is expected to occur off a single quark in the proton, these accurate measurements show an intriguing sensitivity to gluons, the carriers of the strong interaction.

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2017
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117. Search for Lorentz and CPT violation using sidereal time dependence of neutrino flavor transitions over a short baseline

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Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbato, F. C. T., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cremonesi, L., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunkman, M., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S. G., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

A class of extensions of the Standard Model allows Lorentz and CPT violations, which can be identified by the observation of sidereal modulations in the neutrino interaction rate. A search for such modulations was performed using the T2K on-axis near detector. Two complementary methods were used in this study, both of which resulted in no evidence of a signal. Limits on associated Lorentz and CPT violating terms from the Standard Model Extension have been derived taking into account their correlations in this model for the first time. These results imply such symmetry violations are suppressed by a factor of more than $10^{20}$ at the GeV scale., Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures

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2017
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118. Rosenbluth separation of the $\pi^0$ Electroproduction Cross Section off the Neutron

Author

Mazouz, M., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., Benali, M., Boeglin, W., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Chandavar, S., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Defurne, M., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Desnault, C., Deur, A., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Flay, D., Friend, M., Fuchey, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C. E., Iqbal, S., Itard, F., Kang, Ho., Kang, Hy., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Koirala, S., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Magne, M., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Jiménez-Argüello, A. Martí, Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabatié, F., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Solvignon, P., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zana, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report the first longitudinal/transverse separation of the deeply virtual exclusive $\pi^0$ electroproduction cross section off the neutron and coherent deuteron. The corresponding four structure functions $d\sigma_L/dt$, $d\sigma_T/dt$, $d\sigma_{LT}/dt$ and $d\sigma_{TT}/dt$ are extracted as a function of the momentum transfer to the recoil system at $Q^2$=1.75 GeV$^2$ and $x_B$=0.36. The $ed \to ed\pi^0$ cross sections are found compatible with the small values expected from theoretical models. The $en \to en\pi^0$ cross sections show a dominance from the response to transversely polarized photons, and are in good agreement with calculations based on the transversity GPDs of the nucleon. By combining these results with previous measurements of $\pi^0$ electroproduction off the proton, we present a flavor decomposition of the $u$ and $d$ quark contributions to the cross section., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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2017
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119. First combined analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations at T2K

Author

T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

T2K reports its first results in the search for CP violation in neutrino oscillations using appearance and disappearance channels for neutrino- and antineutrino-mode beam. The data include all runs from Jan 2010 to May 2016 and comprise $7.482\times10^{20}$,protons on target in neutrino mode, which yielded in the far detector 32 e-like and 135 $\mu$-like events, and $7.471\times10^{20}$,protons on target in antineutrino mode which yielded 4 e-like and 66 $\mu$-like events. Reactor measurements of $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13}$ have been used as an additional constraint. The one-dimensional confidence interval at 90% for $\delta_{CP}$ spans the range ($-3.13$, $-0.39$) for normal mass ordering. The CP conservation hypothesis ($\delta_{CP}=0,\pi$) is excluded at 90% C.L.

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2017
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120. Search for three-nucleon short-range correlations in light nuclei

Author

Ye, Z, Solvignon, P, Nguyen, D, Aguilera, P, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Allada, K, Anderson, B, Anez, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Baghdasaryan, H, Bai, X, Beck, A, Beck, S, Bellini, V, Benmokhtar, F, Camsonne, A, Chen, C, Chen, JP, Chirapatpimol, K, Cisbani, E, Dalton, MM, Daniel, A, Day, D, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Flay, D, Fomin, N, Friend, M, Frullani, S, Fuchey, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Glamazdin, S, Gu, C, Guèye, P, Hanretty, C, Hansen, JO, Shabestari, MH, Higinbotham, DW, Huang, M, Iqbal, S, Jin, G, Kalantarians, N, Kang, H, Kelleher, A, Korover, I, Lerose, J, Leckey, J, Lindgren, R, Long, E, Mammei, J, Margaziotis, DJ, Markowitz, P, Meekins, D, Meziani, Z, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Muangma, N, Camacho, CM, Norum, B, Nuruzzaman, Pan, K, Phillips, S, Piasetzky, E, Pomerantz, I, Posik, M, Punjabi, V, Qian, X, Qiang, Y, Qiu, X, Reimer, PE, Rakhman, A, Riordan, S, Ron, G, Rondon-Aramayo, O, Saha, A, Selvy, L, Shahinyan, A, Shneor, R, Sirca, S, Slifer, K, Sparveris, N, Subedi, R, Sulkosky, V, Wang, D, Watson, JW, Weinstein, LB, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, SA, Yaron, I, Zhan, X, Zhang, J, Zhang, YW, and Zhao, B

Subjects
nucl-ex
Abstract

We present new data probing short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei through the measurement of electron scattering off high-momentum nucleons in nuclei. The inclusive He4/He3 cross section ratio is observed to be both x and Q2 independent for 1.52, our data support the hypothesis that a previous claim of three-nucleon correlation dominance was an artifact caused by the limited resolution of the measurement. While 3N-SRCs appear to have an important contribution, our data show that isolating 3N-SRCs is significantly more complicated than for 2N-SRCs.

Published
2018

121. Physics Potentials with the Second Hyper-Kamiokande Detector in Korea

Author

proto-collaboration, Hyper-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Abe, Ke., Ahn, S. H., Aihara, H., Aimi, A., Akutsu, R., Andreopoulos, C., Anghel, I., Anthony, L. H. V., Antonova, M., Ashida, Y., Aushev, V., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Beltrame, P., Berardi, V., Bergevin, M., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Berry, T., Bhadra, S., no, D. Bravo-Bergu, Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Cafagna, F. S., Cheon, B. G., Cheoun, M. K., Cho, K., Choi, K. Y., Chun, E. J., Cole, A., Calland, R., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Checchia, C., Chen-Wishart, Z., Choi, J. H., Choi, K., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cowan, G., Cremonesi, L., Dealtry, T., De Rosa, G., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Drakopoulou, E. L., Di Lodovico, F., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Dziewiecki, M., Emery, S., Esmaili, A., Evangelisti, A., Fernandez-Martinez, E., Feusels, T., Finch, A., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Fitton, M., Frankiewicz, K., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Fukuda, D., Ganezer, K., Ghosh, M., Giganti, C., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Gumplinger, P., Hadley, D. R., Hartfiel, B., Hartz, M., Hayato, Y., Hayrapetyan, K., Hill, J., Hirota, S., Horiuchi, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Iijima, T., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, K., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ioannisian, A., Ishida, T., Ishino, H., Ishitsuka, M., Itow, Y., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jang, H. I., Jang, J. S., Jeon, S. H., Jeong, K. S., Jiang, M., Jonsson, P., Joo, K. K., Kaboth, A., Kachulis, C., Kajita, T., Kang, S. K., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kayrapetyan, K., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, C. S., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. H., Kim, J. -S., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. -W., Kim, S. Y., King, S., Kim, T. J., Kim, W., Kishimoto, Y., Ko, P., Kobayashi, T., Koga, M., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K. L., Kropp, W. R., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Kwak, K., Kwon, E. H., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lasorak, P. J. J., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Learned, J. G., Lee, C. H., Lee, S. J., Lee, W. J., Lim, I. T., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Loverre, P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Ma, W., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Maret, L., Mariani, C., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Martin, J. F., Marzec, J., Matsuno, S., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Mermod, P., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Migenda, J., Mijakowski, P., Minakata, H., Minamino, A., Mine, S., Mineev, O., Mitra, A., Miura, M., Mochizuki, T., Monroe, J., Moon, C. S., Moon, D. H., Moriyama, S., Mueller, T., Muheim, F., Murase, K., Muto, F., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, K., Nakaya, T., Nakayama, S., Nantais, C., Needham, M., Nicholls, T., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nova, F., Nowak, J., Nunokawa, H., Obayashi, Y., Oh, Y. D., Oh, Y., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okajima, Y., Okumura, K., Onishchuk, Yu., O'Sullivan, E., O'Sullivan, L., Ovsiannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Pac, M. Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Park, H. S., Park, J. C., Park, M. G., Park, S. C., Parker, W., Parsa, S., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. Pinzon, Playfer, S., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Pritchard, A., Prouse, N. W., Pronost, G., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Quinto, M., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Retiere, F., Riccio, C., Richards, B., Rondio, E., Rose, H. J., Rott, C., Rountree, S. D., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Ryu, D., Sacco, R., Sakuda, M., Sanchez, M. C., Scantamburlo, E., Scott, M., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Seo, H., Seo, S. H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shimizu, I., Shiozawa, M., Shitov, Y., Short, S., Simpson, C., Sinnis, G., Smy, M. B., Snow, S., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H. W., Son, D. C., Sonoda, Y., Spina, R., Stewart, T., Stone, J. L., Suda, Y., Suwa, Y., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Svoboda, R., Taani, M., Tacik, R., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Taketa, A., Takeuchi, Y., Takhistov, V., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tanaka, H., Terri, R., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L. F., Thorpe, M., Tobayama, S., Touramanis, C., Towstego, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tsui, K. M., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M. R., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vogelaar, R. B., Walding, J., Walker, J., Ward, M., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Won, E., Xin, T., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yasuda, O., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yeum, D. N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, H. D., Yoo, J., Yoon, S. C., Yoon, T. S., Yoshida, T., Yu, I., Yu, M., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zito, M., and Zsoldos, S.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Hyper-Kamiokande consists of two identical water-Cherenkov detectors of total 520~kt with the first one in Japan at 295~km from the J-PARC neutrino beam with 2.5$^{\textrm{o}}$ Off-Axis Angles (OAAs), and the second one possibly in Korea in a later stage. Having the second detector in Korea would benefit almost all areas of neutrino oscillation physics mainly due to longer baselines. There are several candidate sites in Korea with baselines of 1,000$\sim$1,300~km and OAAs of 1$^{\textrm{o}}$$\sim$3$^{\textrm{o}}$. We conducted sensitivity studies on neutrino oscillation physics for a second detector, either in Japan (JD $\times$ 2) or Korea (JD + KD) and compared the results with a single detector in Japan. Leptonic CP violation sensitivity is improved especially when the CP is non-maximally violated. The larger matter effect at Korean candidate sites significantly enhances sensitivities to non-standard interactions of neutrinos and mass ordering determination. Current studies indicate the best sensitivity is obtained at Mt. Bisul (1,088~km baseline, $1.3^\circ$ OAA). Thanks to a larger (1,000~m) overburden than the first detector site, clear improvements to sensitivities for solar and supernova relic neutrino searches are expected., Comment: 102 pages, 49 figures. Accepted by PTEP

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2016
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122. Proposal for an Extended Run of T2K to $20\times10^{21}$ POT

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Abe, K., Aihara, H., Amji, A., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Atherton, A., Ban, S., Barbato, F. C. T., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Calland, R. G., Calvet, D., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cremonesi, L., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., Delbart, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunkman, M., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Fernanddez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Fitton, M., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K. L., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W., Patel, N. D., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Southwell, L., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Szeptycka, M., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, M. A., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Vacheret, A., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Recent measurements by the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment indicate that CP violation in neutrino mixing may be observed in the future by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. We propose an extension to the currently approved T2K running from $7.8\times 10^{21}~\mbox{POT}$ to $20\times 10^{21}~\mbox{POT}$, aiming at initial observation of CP violation with 3$\,\sigma$ or higher significance for the case of maximum CP violation. The program also contains a measurement of mixing parameters, $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}$, with a precision of 1.7$^\circ$ or better and 1%, respectively. With accelerator and beamline upgrades, as well as analysis improvements, this program would occur before the next generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments that are expected to start operation in 2026., Comment: 68 pages, 31 figures

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2016

123. Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande associated with Gravitational Wave Events GW150914 and GW151226

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Abe, K., Haga, K., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Nantais, C. M., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hil, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Suzuki, K., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the results from a search in Super-Kamiokande for neutrino signals coincident with the first detected gravitational wave events, GW150914 and GW151226, using a neutrino energy range from 3.5 MeV to 100 PeV. We searched for coincident neutrino events within a time window of $\pm$500 seconds around the gravitational wave detection time. Four neutrino candidates are found for GW150914 and no candidates are found for GW151226. The remaining neutrino candidates are consistent with the expected background events. We calculated the 90\% confidence level upper limits on the combined neutrino fluence for both gravitational wave events, which depends on event energy and topologies. Considering the upward going muon data set (1.6 GeV - 100 PeV) the neutrino fluence limit for each gravitational wave event is 14 - 37 (19 - 50) cm$^{-2}$ for muon neutrinos (muon antineutrinos), depending on the zenith angle of the event. In the other data sets, the combined fluence limits for both gravitational wave events range from 2.4$\times 10^{4}$ to 7.0$\times 10^{9}$ cm$^{-2}$., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures

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2016
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124. Rosenbluth separation of the $\pi^0$ electroproduction cross section

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Defurne, M., Mazouz, M., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., Benali, M., Boeglin, W., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Chandavar, S., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Desnault, C., Deur, A., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Flay, D., Friend, M., Fuchey, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Hyde, C. E., Iqbal, S., Itard, F., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Koirala, S., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Magne, M., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Jimenez-Arguello, A. Marti, Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabati, F., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Solvignon, P., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zafar, A., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present deeply virtual $\pi^0$ electroproduction cross-section measurements at $x_B$=0.36 and three different $Q^2$--values ranging from 1.5 to 2 GeV$^2$, obtained from experiment E07-007 that ran in the Hall A at Jefferson Lab. The Rosenbluth technique was used to separate the longitudinal and transverse responses. Results demonstrate that the cross section is dominated by its transverse component, and thus is far from the asymptotic limit predicted by perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. An indication of a non-zero longitudinal contribution is provided by the interference term $\sigma_{LT}$ also measured. Results are compared with several models based on the leading twist approach of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). In particular, a fair agreement is obtained with models where the scattering amplitude is described by a convolution of chiral-odd (transversity) GPDs of the nucleon with the twist-3 pion distribution amplitude. Therefore, neutral pion electroproduction may offer the exciting possibility of accessing transversity GPDs through experiment., Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters

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2016
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125. Sensitivity of the T2K accelerator-based neutrino experiment with an Extended run to $20\times10^{21}$ POT

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Abe, K., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Recent measurements at the T2K experiment indicate that CP violation in neutrino mixing may be observed in the future by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. We explore the physics program of an extension to the currently approved T2K running of $7.8\times 10^{21}$ protons-on-target to $20\times 10^{21}$ protons-on-target,aiming at initial observation of CP violation with 3$\,\sigma$ or higher significance for the case of maximum CP violation. With accelerator and beam line upgrades, as well as analysis improvements, this program would occur before the next generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments that are expected to start operation in 2026., Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures

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2016

126. Solar Neutrino Measurements in Super-Kamiokande-IV

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Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Takenaga, Y., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Yokozawa, T., Akutsu, R., Irvine, T., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., Nishimura, Y., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Richard, E., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, 32 J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, 32 L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Akiri, T., Albert, J. B., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Nakano, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Wendell, R. A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Muto, F., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Taylor, I., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Takeuchi, J., Yamaguchi, R., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Obayashi, Y., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Nantais, C. M., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Sui, H., Wan, L., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Upgraded electronics, improved water system dynamics, better calibration and analysis techniques allowed Super-Kamiokande-IV to clearly observe very low-energy 8B solar neutrino interactions, with recoil electron kinetic energies as low as 3.49 MeV. Super-Kamiokande-IV data-taking began in September of 2008; this paper includes data until February 2014, a total livetime of 1664 days. The measured solar neutrino flux is (2.308+-0.020(stat.) + 0.039-0.040(syst.)) x 106/(cm2sec) assuming no oscillations. The observed recoil electron energy spectrum is consistent with no distortions due to neutrino oscillations. An extended maximum likelihood fit to the amplitude of the expected solar zenith angle variation of the neutrino-electron elastic scattering rate in SK-IV results in a day/night asymmetry of (-3.6+-1.6(stat.)+-0.6(syst.))%. The SK-IV solar neutrino data determine the solar mixing angle as sin2 theta_12 = 0.327+0.026-0.031, all SK solar data (SK-I, SK-II, SK III and SKIV) measures this angle to be sin2 theta_12 = 0.334+0.027-0.023, the determined mass-squared splitting is Delta m2_21 = 4.8+1.5-0.8 x10-5 eV2., Comment: Submitted to Physical Review D; 23 pages, 40 figures

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2016
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127. First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged Current Single Pion Production Cross Section on Water with the T2K Near Detector

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T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S. G., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Miller, C. A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Zmuda, J. .

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The T2K off-axis near detector, ND280, is used to make the first differential cross section measurements of muon neutrino charged current single positive pion production on a water target at energies ${\sim}0.8$ GeV. The differential measurements are presented as a function of muon and pion kinematics, in the restricted phase-space defined by $p_{\pi^+}>200$MeV/c, $p_{\mu^-}>200$MeV/c, $\cos \theta_{\pi^+}>0.3$ and $\cos \theta_{\mu^-}>0.3$. The total flux integrated $\nu_\mu$ charged current single positive pion production cross section on water in the restricted phase-space is measured to be $\langle\sigma\rangle_\phi=4.25\pm0.48 (\mathrm{stat})\pm1.56 (\mathrm{syst})\times10^{-40} \mathrm{cm}^{2}/\mathrm{nucleon}$. The total cross section is consistent with the NEUT prediction ($5.03\times10^{-40} \mathrm{cm}^{2}/\mathrm{nucleon}$) and 2$\sigma$ lower than the GENIE prediction ($7.68\times10^{-40} \mathrm{cm}^{2}/\mathrm{nucleon}$). The differential cross sections are in good agreement with the NEUT generator. The GENIE simulation reproduces well the shapes of the distributions, but over-estimates the overall cross section normalization.

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2016
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128. Measurement of coherent $\pi^{+}$ production in low energy neutrino-Carbon scattering

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Abe, K., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S. G., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the flux-averaged cross section for charged current coherent $\pi^{+}$ production on carbon for neutrino energies less than 1.5 GeV to a restricted final state phase space region in the T2K near detector, ND280. Comparisons are made with predictions from the Rein-Sehgal coherent production model and the model by Alvarez-Ruso {\it et al.}, the latter representing the first implementation of an instance of the new class of microscopic coherent models in a neutrino interaction Monte Carlo event generator. This results contradicts the null results reported by K2K and SciBooNE in a similar neutrino energy region.

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2016
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129. Measurements of $\pi^{\pm}$ differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

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Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ajaz, M., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Antićić, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blümer, J., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hervé, A. E., Hierholzer, M., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manic, D., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messerly, B., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Panagiotou, A. D., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Popov, B. A., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sarnecki, R., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Yarritu, K., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., Friend, M., Galymov, V., Hartz, M., Hiraki, T., Ichikawa, A., Kubo, H., Matsuoka, K., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Tzanov, M., and Yu, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-statistics run in 2009. An efficient use of the long-target measurements for neutrino flux predictions in T2K requires dedicated reconstruction and analysis techniques. Fully-corrected differential yields of $\pi^\pm$-mesons from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons are presented. A possible strategy to implement these results into the T2K neutrino beam predictions is discussed and the propagation of the uncertainties of these results to the final neutrino flux is performed.

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2016
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130. Measurements of $d_{2}^{n}$ and $A_{1}^{n}$: Probing the neutron spin structure

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Flay, D., Posik, M., Parno, D. S., Allada, K., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Chudakov, E., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Guo, L., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H. F., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., Kumbartzki, G., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lukhanin, A., Mamyan, V., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moffit, B., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Peng, J. C., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tobias, A., Troth, W., Wang, D., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We report on the results of the E06-014 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab in Hall A, where a precision measurement of the twist-3 matrix element $d_2$ of the neutron ($d_{2}^{n}$) was conducted. This quantity represents the average color Lorentz force a struck quark experiences in a deep inelastic electron scattering event off a neutron due to its interaction with the hadronizing remnants. This color force was determined from a linear combination of the third moments of the spin structure functions $g_1$ and $g_2$ on $^{3}$He after nuclear corrections had been applied to these moments. The kinematics included two average $Q^{2}$ bins of $3.2$ GeV$^{2}$ and $4.3$ GeV$^{2}$, and Bjorken-$x$ $0.25 \leq x \leq 0.90$ covering the DIS and resonance regions. We found $d_2^n$ to be small and negative for $ = 3.2$ GeV$^{2}$, and smaller for $ = 4.3$ GeV$^{2}$, consistent with a lattice QCD calculation. The twist-4 matrix element $f_{2}^{n}$ was extracted by combining our $d_{2}^{n}$ with the world data on $\Gamma_{1}^{n} = \int_{0}^{1} g_{1}^{n} dx$. We found $f_{2}^{n}$ to be roughly an order of magnitude larger than $d_{2}^{n}$. Utilizing the extracted $d_{2}^{n}$ and $f_{2}^{n}$ data, we separated the color force into its electric and magnetic components, $F_{E}^{y,n}$ and $F_{B}^{y,n}$, and found them to be equal and opposite in magnitude, in agreement with instanton model predictions but not with those from QCD sum rules. Additionally, we have extracted the neutron virtual photon-nucleon asymmetry $A_{1}^{n}$, the structure function ratio $g_{1}^{n}/F_{1}^{n}$, and the quark ratios $(\Delta u + \Delta \bar{u})/(u + \bar{u})$ and $(\Delta d + \Delta \bar{d})/(d + \bar{d})$. These results were found to be consistent with DIS world data and with the prediction of the constituent quark model but at odds with those of perturbative QCD at large $x$., Comment: 55 Pages, 45 figures, 48 tables. 15 supplemental files. Grammatical and typo fixes. Revised some model descriptions and updated analyses for f_2^n and color forces

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2016
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131. Measurement of double-differential muon neutrino charged-current interactions on C$_8$H$_8$ without pions in the final state using the T2K off-axis beam

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T2K collaboration, Abe, K., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Cao, S., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S. G., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the measurement of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon without pions in the final state at the T2K beam energy using 5.734$\times10^{20}$ protons on target. For the first time the measurement is reported as a flux-integrated, double-differential cross-section in muon kinematic variables ($\cos\theta_\mu$, $p_\mu$), without correcting for events where a pion is produced and then absorbed by final state interactions. Two analyses are performed with different selections, background evaluations and cross-section extraction methods to demonstrate the robustness of the results against biases due to model-dependent assumptions. The measurements compare favorably with recent models which include nucleon-nucleon correlations but, given the present precision, the measurement does not solve the degeneracy between different models. The data also agree with Monte Carlo simulations which use effective parameters that are tuned to external data to describe the nuclear effects. The total cross-section in the full phase space is $\sigma = (0.417 \pm 0.047 \text{(syst)} \pm 0.005 \text{(stat)})\times 10^{-38} \text{cm}^2$ $\text{nucleon}^{-1}$ and the cross-section integrated in the region of phase space with largest efficiency and best signal-over-background ratio ($\cos\theta_\mu>0.6$ and $p_\mu > 200$ MeV) is $\sigma = (0.202 \pm 0.0359 \text{(syst)} \pm 0.0026 \text{(stat)}) \times 10^{-38} \text{cm}^2$ $\text{nucleon}^{-1}$., Comment: 44 pages, 17 figures. Modifications from previous version: references fixed and style of Fig.11 improved for black and white printing

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2016
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132. A high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity with a frequency-doubled green laser for precision Compton polarimetry at Jefferson Lab

Author

Rakhman, A., Hafez, M., Nanda, S., Benmokhtar, F., Camsonne, A., Cates, G. D., Dalton, M. M., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Michaels, R. W., Nelyubin, V., Parno, D. S., Paschke, K. D., Quinn, B. P., Souder, P. A., and Tobias, W. A.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity with a frequency-doubled continuous wave green laser (532~nm) has been built and installed in Hall A of Jefferson Lab for high precision Compton polarimetry. The infrared (1064~nm) beam from a ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier seeded by a Nd:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator laser is frequency doubled in a single-pass periodically poled MgO:LiNbO$_{3}$ crystal. The maximum achieved green power at 5 W IR pump power is 1.74 W with a total conversion efficiency of 34.8\%. The green beam is injected into the optical resonant cavity and enhanced up to 3.7~kW with a corresponding enhancement of 3800. The polarization transfer function has been measured in order to determine the intra-cavity circular laser polarization within a measurement uncertainty of 0.7\%. The PREx experiment at Jefferson Lab used this system for the first time and achieved 1.0\% precision in polarization measurements of an electron beam with energy and current of 1.0~GeV and 50~$\mu$A., Comment: 20 pages, 22 figures, revised version of arXiv:1601.00251v1, submitted to NIMA

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2016
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133. Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Oscillations with an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Beam

Author

T2K collaboration, Abe, K., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Cao, S., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S. G., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

T2K reports its first measurements of the parameters governing the disappearance of $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ in an off-axis beam due to flavor change induced by neutrino oscillations. The quasimonochromatic $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ beam, produced with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV at J-PARC, is observed at the far detector Super-Kamiokande, 295 km away, where the $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ survival probability is expected to be minimal. Using a dataset corresponding to $4.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target, $34$ fully contained $\mu$-like events were observed. The best-fit oscillation parameters are $\sin^2 (\bar{\theta}_{23}) = 0.45$ and $|\Delta\bar{m}^2_{32}| = 2.51 \times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$ with 68% confidence intervals of 0.38 - 0.64 and 2.26 - 2.80 $\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$ respectively. These results are in agreement with existing antineutrino parameter measurements and also with the $\nu_\mu$ disappearance parameters measured by T2K., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, revision made following to referee comments, the link to the data release page was added

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2015
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134. Measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux by Super-Kamiokande: energy spectra, geomagnetic effects, and solar modulation

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Richard, E., Okumura, K., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Akutsu, R., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., OSullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

A comprehensive study on the atmospheric neutrino flux in the energy region from sub-GeV up to several TeV using the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector is presented in this paper. The energy and azimuthal spectra of the atmospheric ${\nu}_e+{\bar{\nu}}_e$ and ${\nu}_{\mu}+{\bar{\nu}}_{\mu}$ fluxes are measured. The energy spectra are obtained using an iterative unfolding method by combining various event topologies with differing energy responses. The azimuthal spectra depending on energy and zenith angle, and their modulation by geomagnetic effects, are also studied. A predicted east-west asymmetry is observed in both the ${\nu}_e$ and ${\nu}_{\mu}$ samples at 8.0 {\sigma} and 6.0 {\sigma} significance, respectively, and an indication that the asymmetry dipole angle changes depending on the zenith angle was seen at the 2.2 {\sigma} level. The measured energy and azimuthal spectra are consistent with the current flux models within the estimated systematic uncertainties. A study of the long-term correlation between the atmospheric neutrino flux and the solar magnetic activity cycle is also performed, and a weak indication of a correlation was seen at the 1.1 {\sigma} level, using SK I-IV data spanning a 20 year period. For particularly strong solar activity periods known as Forbush decreases, no theoretical prediction is available, but a deviation below the typical neutrino event rate is seen at the 2.4 {\sigma} level., Comment: 30 pages, 31 figures

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2015
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135. Measurement of the muon neutrino inclusive charged-current cross section in the energy range of 1-3 GeV with the T2K INGRID detector

Author

T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Calland, R. G., Cao, S., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kondo, K., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Miller, C. A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J. D., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Short, S., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, M., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report a measurement of the $\nu_{\mu}$-nucleus inclusive charged current cross section (=$\sigma^{cc}$) on iron using data from exposed to the J-PARC neutrino beam. The detector consists of 14 modules in total, which are spread over a range of off-axis angles from 0$^\circ$ to 1.1$^\circ$. The variation in the neutrino energy spectrum as a function of the off-axis angle, combined with event topology information, is used to calculate this cross section as a function of neutrino energy. The cross section is measured to be $\sigma^{cc}(1.1\text{ GeV}) = 1.10 \pm 0.15$ $(10^{-38}\text{cm}^2/\text{nucleon})$, $\sigma^{cc}(2.0\text{ GeV}) = 2.07 \pm 0.27$ $(10^{-38}\text{cm}^2/\text{nucleon})$, and $\sigma^{cc}(3.3\text{ GeV}) = 2.29 \pm 0.45$ $(10^{-38}\text{cm}^2/\text{nucleon})$, at energies of 1.1, 2.0, and 3.3 GeV, respectively. These results are consistent with the cross section calculated by the neutrino interaction generators currently used by T2K. More importantly, the method described here opens up a new way to determine the energy dependence of neutrino-nucleus cross sections.

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2015
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136. Electroexcitation of the $\Delta^{+}(1232)$ at low momentum transfer

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Blomberg, A., Anez, D., Sparveris, N., Sarty, A., Paolone, M., Gilad, S., Higinbotham, D., Abudureyimu, A. R., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Averett, T., Baghdasaryan, H., Bai, X., Beck, A., Beck, S., Bellini, V., Benmokhtar, F., Boeglin, W., Camacho, C. M., Camsonne, A., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Chirapatpimol, K., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., De Leo, R., Flay, D., Fomin, N., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gilman, R., Gu, C., Hamilton, D., Hanretty, C., Hansen, O., Shabestari, M. Hashemi, Holmstrom, T., Huang, M., Iqbal, S., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Khandaker, M., Leckey, J., LeRose, J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Jimenez-Arguello, A. Marti, Meziani, Z. E., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Norum, B., Nuruzzaman, Pan, K., Phillips, S., Polychronopoulou, A., Pomerantz, I., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Saha, A., Schulte, E., Selvy, L., Sirca, S., Sjoegren, J., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tireman, W., Wang, D., Watson, J., Weinstein, L., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, W., Yaron, I., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report on new p$(e,e^\prime p)\pi^\circ$ measurements at the $\Delta^{+}(1232)$ resonance at the low momentum transfer region. The mesonic cloud dynamics is predicted to be dominant and rapidly changing in this kinematic region offering a test bed for chiral effective field theory calculations. The new data explore the low $Q^2$ dependence of the resonant quadrupole amplitudes while extending the measurements of the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude to the lowest momentum transfer ever reached. The results disagree with predictions of constituent quark models and are in reasonable agreement with dynamical calculations that include pion cloud effects, chiral effective field theory and lattice calculations. The reported measurements suggest that improvement is required to the theoretical calculations and provide valuable input that will allow their refinements.

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2015
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137. Search for Nucleon and Dinucleon Decays with an Invisible Particle and a Charged Lepton in the Final State at the Super-Kamiokande Experiment

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Takhistov, V., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Himmel, A., Li, Z., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

Search results for nucleon decays $p \rightarrow e^+X$, $p \rightarrow \mu^+X$, $n \rightarrow \nu\gamma$ (where $X$ is an invisible, massless particle) as well as dinucleon decays $np \rightarrow e^+\nu$, $np \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $np \rightarrow \tau^+\nu$ in the Super-Kamiokande experiment are presented. Using single-ring data from an exposure of 273.4 kton $\cdot$ years, a search for these decays yields a result consistent with no signal. Accordingly, lower limits on the partial lifetimes of $\tau_{p \rightarrow e^+X} > 7.9 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{p \rightarrow \mu^+X} > 4.1 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{n \rightarrow \nu\gamma} > 5.5 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{np \rightarrow e^+\nu} > 2.6 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{np \rightarrow \mu^+\nu} > 2.2 \times 10^{32}$ years and $\tau_{np \rightarrow \tau^+\nu} > 2.9 \times 10^{31}$ years at a $90 \% $ confidence level are obtained. Some of these searches are novel., Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections, length shortened, matches published version

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2015
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138. Measurement of the Electron Neutrino Charged-current Interaction Rate on Water with the T2K ND280 pi-zero Detector

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T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Adam, J., Aihara, H., Andreopoulos, C., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Bass, M., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berger, B. E., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Buchanan, N., Calland, R. G., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Coleman, S. J., Collazuol, G., Connolly, K., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., Das, R., Davis, S., de Perio, P., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Escudero, L., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Goeldi, D., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Gudin, D., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hignight, J., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ieva, M., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Iyogi, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Kanazawa, Y., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kilinski, A., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Kitching, P., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, A., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Lister, C., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Miller, C. A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murakami, A., Murdoch, M., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Plonski, P., Poplawska, E., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reeves, M., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruterbories, D., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J. D., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Shustrov, Y., Sinclair, P., Smith, B., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Suda, Y., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, M. M., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorley, A., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Williamson, Z., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wongjirad, T., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This paper presents a measurement of the charged current interaction rate of the electron neutrino beam component of the beam above $1.5$~GeV using the large fiducial mass of the T2K $\pi^0$ detector. The predominant poriton of the $\nu_e$ flux ($\sim$85 %) at these energies comes from kaon decays. The measured ratio of the observed beam interaction rate to the predicted rate in the detector with water targets filled is 0.89 $\pm$ 0.08 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.11 (sys.), and with the water targets emptied is 0.90 $\pm$ 0.09 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.13 (sys.). The ratio obtained for the interactions on water only from an event subtraction method is 0.87 $\pm$ 0.33 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.21 (sys.). This is the first measurement of the interaction rate of electron neutrinos on water, which is particularly of interest to experiments with water Cherenkov detectors., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, as accepted to PRD

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2015
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139. Measurement of the $\nu_{\mu}$ charged current quasi-elastic cross-section on carbon with the T2K on-axis neutrino beam

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Abe, K., Adam, J., Aihara, H., Andreopoulos, C., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Bass, M., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berger, B. E., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Buchanan, N., Calland, R. G., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Coleman, S. J., Collazuol, G., Connolly, K., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., Danko, I., Das, R., Davis, S., de Perio, P., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Escudero, L., Ferchichi, C., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Goeldi, D., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Gudin, D., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hearty, C., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hignight, J., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ieva, M., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Iyogi, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Kanazawa, Y., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kilinski, A., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Kitching, P., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, A., Kopylov, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Lister, C., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Miller, C. A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murakami, A., Murdoch, M., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Plonski, P., Poplawska, E., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reeves, M., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruterbories, D., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Shustrov, Y., Sinclair, P., Smith, B., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Still, B., Suda, Y., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, M. M., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorley, A., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Totsuka, Y., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Williamson, Z., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wongjirad, T., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Zmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report a measurement of the $\nu_\mu$ charged current quasi-elastic cross-sections on carbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam. The measured charged current quasi-elastic cross-sections on carbon at mean neutrino energies of 1.94 GeV and 0.93 GeV are $(11.95\pm 0.19(stat.)_{-1.47}^{+1.82} (syst.))\times 10^{-39}\mathrm{cm}^2/\mathrm{neutron}$ and $(10.64\pm 0.37(stat.)_{-1.65}^{+2.03} (syst.))\times 10^{-39}\mathrm{cm}^2/\mathrm{neutron}$, respectively. These results agree well with the predictions of neutrino interaction models. In addition, we investigated the effects of the nuclear model and the multi-nucleon interaction., Comment: 17 pages, 21 figures

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2015
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140. Physics Potential of a Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande

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Proto-Collaboraion, Hyper-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Aihara, H., Andreopoulos, C., Anghel, I., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Asfandiyarov, R., Askins, M., Back, J. J., Ballett, P., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bay, F., Beltrame, P., Berardi, V., Bergevin, M., Berkman, S., Berry, T., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Cafagna, F. S., Carminati, G., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Choi, K., Choi, J. H., Collazuol, G., Cowan, G., Cremonesi, L., Davies, G., De Rosa, G., Densham, C., Detwiler, J., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Drapier, O., Emery, S., Ereditato, A., Fernández, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A., Fitton, M., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Fukuda, D., Galymov, V., Ganezer, K., Gonin, M., Gumplinger, P., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haga, Y., Hartfiel, B., Hartz, M., Hayato, Y., Hierholzer, M., Hill, J., Himmel, A., Hirota, S., Horiuchi, S., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Iijima, T., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, K., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T., Ishida, T., Ishino, H., Ishitsuka, M., Itow, Y., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jang, H. I., Jiang, M., Joo, K. K., Jung, C. K., Kaboth, A., Kajita, T., Kameda, J., Karadhzov, Y., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kishimoto, Y., Kobayashi, T., Koga, M., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W. R., Kudenko, Y., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Learned, J. G., Lim, I. T., Lindner, T., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Ma, W., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Mariani, C., Marti, L., Martin, J. F., Martin, C., Martins, P. P. J., Mazzucato, E., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mezzetto, M., Minakata, H., Minamino, A., Mine, S., Mineev, O., Miura, M., Monroe, J., Mori, T., Moriyama, S., Mueller, T., Muheim, F., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K., Nakaya, T., Nakayama, S., Needham, M., Nicholls, T., Nirkko, M., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nowak, J., Nunokawa, H., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okajima, Y., Okumura, K., Oser, S. M., O'Sullivan, E., Ovsiannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Pérez, J., Pac, M. Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Pistillo, C., Playfer, S., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Quilain, B., Quinto, M., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Redij, A., Retiere, F., Riccio, C., Richard, E., Rondio, E., Rose, H. J., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rott, C., Rountree, S. D., Rubbia, A., Sacco, R., Sakuda, M., Sanchez, M. C., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Shaikhiev, A., Shimizu, I., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Sinnis, G., Smy, M. B., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H. W., Stewart, T., Stone, J. L., Suda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Svoboda, R., Tacik, R., Takeda, A., Taketa, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tanaka, H., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorpe, M., Tobayama, S., Tolich, N., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M. R., Vasseur, G., Vogelaar, R. B., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Xin, T., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of Hyper-Kamiokande is the study of $CP$ asymmetry in the lepton sector using accelerator neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. In this paper, the physics potential of a long baseline neutrino experiment using the Hyper-Kamiokande detector and a neutrino beam from the J-PARC proton synchrotron is presented. The analysis uses the framework and systematic uncertainties derived from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5 MW $\times$ 10$^7$ sec integrated proton beam power (corresponding to $1.56\times10^{22}$ protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a $2.5$-degree off-axis neutrino beam, it is expected that the leptonic $CP$ phase $\delta_{CP}$ can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of $\delta_{CP}$, and $CP$ violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than $3\,\sigma$ ($5\,\sigma$) for $76\%$ ($58\%$) of the $\delta_{CP}$ parameter space. Using both $\nu_e$ appearance and $\nu_\mu$ disappearance data, the expected 1$\sigma$ uncertainty of $\sin^2\theta_{23}$ is 0.015(0.006) for $\sin^2\theta_{23}=0.5(0.45)$., Comment: 40 pages, 26 figures

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2015
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141. Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with 6.6E20 protons on target

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T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Adam, J., Aihara, H., Akiri, T., Andreopoulos, C., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bartet-Friburg, P., Bass, M., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berger, B. E., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Buchanan, N., Calland, R. G., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Coleman, S. J., Collazuol, G., Connolly, K., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., Danko, I., Das, R., Davis, S., de Perio, P., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duboyski, T., Duffy, K., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Escudero, L., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Goeldi, D., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Gudin, D., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hearty, C., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hignight, J., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ieva, M., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Iyogi, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Kanazawa, Y., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kilinski, A., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Kitching, P., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Lister, C., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Miller, C. A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murakami, A., Murdoch, M., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Plonski, P., Poplawska, E., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reeves, M., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruterbories, D., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Shustrov, Y., Sinclair, P., Smith, B., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Still, B., Suda, Y., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, M. M., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorley, A., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Totsuka, Y., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Williamson, Z., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wongjirad, T., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Żmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report on measurements of neutrino oscillation using data from the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment collected between 2010 and 2013. In an analysis of muon neutrino disappearance alone, we find the following estimates and 68% confidence intervals for the two possible mass hierarchies: Normal Hierarchy: $\sin^2\theta_{23}=0.514^{+0.055}_{-0.056}$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}=(2.51\pm0.10)\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$/c$^4$ Inverted Hierarchy: $\sin^2\theta_{23}=0.511\pm0.055$ and $\Delta m^2_{13}=(2.48\pm0.10)\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$/c$^4$ The analysis accounts for multi-nucleon mechanisms in neutrino interactions which were found to introduce negligible bias. We describe our first analyses that combine measurements of muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance to estimate four oscillation parameters and the mass hierarchy. Frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of these parameters, with and without including recent reactor measurements. At 90% confidence level and including reactor measurements, we exclude the region: $\delta_{CP}=[0.15,0.83]\pi$ for normal hierarchy and $\delta_{CP}=[-0.08,1.09]\pi$ for inverted hierarchy. The T2K and reactor data weakly favor the normal hierarchy with a Bayes Factor of 2.2. The most probable values and 68% 1D credible intervals for the other oscillation parameters, when reactor data are included, are: $\sin^2\theta_{23}=0.528^{+0.055}_{-0.038}$ and $|\Delta m^2_{32}|=(2.51\pm0.11)\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$/c$^4$., Comment: 111 pages, 45 figures, submitted to Physical Review D. Minor revisions to text following referee comments

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2015
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142. A Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande

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Group, Hyper-Kamiokande Working, Abe, K., Aihara, H., Andreopoulos, C., Anghel, I., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Asfandiyarov, R., Askins, M., Back, J. J., Ballett, P., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bay, F., Beltrame, P., Berardi, V., Bergevin, M., Berkman, S., Berry, T., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Cafagna, F. S., Carminati, G., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Choi, K., Choi, J. H., Collazuol, G., Cowan, G., Cremonesi, L., Davies, G., De Rosa, G., Densham, C., Detwiler, J., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Drapier, O., Emery, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A., Fitton, M., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Fukuda, D., Galymov, V., Ganezer, K., Gonin, M., Gumplinger, P., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haga, Y., Hartfiel, B., Hartz, M., Hayato, Y., Hierholzer, M., Hill, J., Himmel, A., Hirota, S., Horiuchi, S., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Iijima, T., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, K., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T., Ishida, T., Ishino, H., Ishitsuka, M., Itow, Y., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jang, H. I., Jiang, M., Joo, K. K., Jung, C. K., Kaboth, A., Kajita, T., Kameda, J., Karadhzov, Y., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kishimoto, Y., Kobayashi, T., Koga, M., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W. R., Kudenko, Y., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Learned, J. G., Lim, I. T., Lindner, T., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Ma, W., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Mariani, C., Marti, L., Martin, J. F., Martin, C., Martins, P. P. J., Mazzucato, E., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mezzetto, M., Minakata, H., Minamino, A., Mine, S., Mineev, O., Miura, M., Monroe, J., Mori, T., Moriyama, S., Mueller, T., Muheim, F., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K., Nakaya, T., Nakayama, S., Needham, M., Nicholls, T., Nirkko, M., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nowak, J., Nunokawa, H., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okajima, Y., Okumura, K., Oser, S. M., O'Sullivan, E., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Perez, J., Pac, M. Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Pistillo, C., Playfer, S., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Quilain, B., Quinto, M., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Redij, A., Retiere, F., Riccio, C., Richard, E., Rondio, E., Rose, H. J., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rott, C., Rountree, S. D., Rubbia, A., Sacco, R., Sakuda, M., Sanchez, M. C., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Shaikhiev, A., Shimizu, I., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Sinnis, G., Smy, M. B., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H. W., Stewart, T., Stone, J. L., Suda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Svoboda, R., Tacik, R., Takeda, A., Taketa, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tanaka, H., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorpe, M., Tobayama, S., Tolich, N., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M. R., Vasseur, G., Vogelaar, R. B., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Xin, T., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., and Zito, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of Hyper-Kamiokande is the study of $CP$ asymmetry in the lepton sector using accelerator neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. In this document, the physics potential of a long baseline neutrino experiment using the Hyper-Kamiokande detector and a neutrino beam from the J-PARC proton synchrotron is presented. The analysis has been updated from the previous Letter of Intent [K. Abe et al., arXiv:1109.3262 [hep-ex]], based on the experience gained from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5 MW $\times$ 10$^7$ sec integrated proton beam power (corresponding to $1.56\times10^{22}$ protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a $2.5$-degree off-axis neutrino beam produced by the J-PARC proton synchrotron, it is expected that the $CP$ phase $\delta_{CP}$ can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of $\delta_{CP}$, and $CP$ violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than $3\,\sigma$ ($5\,\sigma$) for $76%$ ($58%$) of the $\delta_{CP}$ parameter space., Comment: Document submitted to 18th J-PARC PAC meeting in May 2014. 50 pages, 41 figures

Published
2014

143. Letter of Intent to Construct a nuPRISM Detector in the J-PARC Neutrino Beamline

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Bhadra, S., Blondel, A., Bordoni, S., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Caravaca-Rodriguez, J., Dziewiecki, M., Feusels, T., Fiorentini-Aguirre, G. A., Friend, M., Haegel, L., Hartz, M., Henderson, R., Ishida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Jung, C. K., Kaboth, A. C., Kakuno, H., Kamano, H., Konaka, A., Kudenko, Y., Kuze, M., Lindner, T., Mahn, K., Martin, J. F., Marzec, J., McFarland, K. S., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakamura, S., Nishimura, Y., Rychter, A., Sanchez, F., Sato, T., Scott, M., Sekiguchi, T., Shiozawa, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Tacik, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Vagins, M., Vo, J., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Wilking, M. J., Yen, S., Yokoyama, M., and Ziembicki, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

As long-baseline neutrino experiments enter the precision era, the difficulties associated with understanding neutrino interaction cross sections on atomic nuclei are expected to limit experimental sensitivities to oscillation parameters. In particular, the ability to relate experimental observables to neutrino energy in previous experiments has relied solely on theoretical models of neutrino-nucleus interactions, which currently suffer from very large theoretical uncertainties. By observing charged current $\nu_\mu$ interactions over a continuous range of off-axis angles from 1 to 4 degrees, the nuPRISM water Cherenkov detector can provide a direct measurement of the far detector lepton kinematics for any given set of oscillation parameters, which largely removes neutrino interaction modeling uncertainties from T2K oscillation measurements. This naturally provides a direct constraint on the relationship between lepton kinematics and neutrino energy. In addition, nuPRISM is a sensitive probe of sterile neutrino oscillations with multiple energy spectra, which provides unique constraints on possible background-related explanations of the MiniBooNE anomaly. Finally, high-precision measurements of neutrino cross sections on water are possible, including $\nu_e$ measurements and the first ever measurements of neutral current interactions as a function of neutrino energy. The nuPRISM detector also benefits the proposed Hyper-Kamiokande project. A demonstration that neutrino interaction uncertainties can be controlled will be important to understanding the physics reach of Hyper-K. In addition, nuPRISM will provide an easily accessible prototype detector for many of the new hardware components currently under consideration for Hyper-K. The following document presents the configuration, physics impact, and preliminary cost estimates for a nuPRISM detector in the J-PARC neutrino beamline., Comment: 42 pages, 42 figures

Published
2014

144. The LBNO long-baseline oscillation sensitivities with two conventional neutrino beams at different baselines

Author

Collaboration, LAGUNA-LBNO, Agarwalla, S. K., Agostino, L., Aittola, M., Alekou, A., Andrieu, B., Antoniou, F., Asfandiyarov, R., Autiero, D., Bésida, O., Balik, A., Ballett, P., Bandac, I., Banerjee, D., Bartmann, W., Bay, F., Biskup, B., Blebea-Apostu, A. M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bolognesi, S., Borriello, E., Brancus, I., Bravar, A., Buizza-Avanzini, M., Caiulo, D., Calin, M., Calviani, M., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Cata-Danil, G., Chakraborty, S., Charitonidis, N., Chaussard, L., Chesneanu, D., Chipesiu, F., Crivelli, P., Dawson, J., De Bonis, I., Declais, Y., Sanchez, P. Del Amo, Delbart, A., Di Luise, S., Duchesneau, D., Dumarchez, J., Efthymiopoulos, I., Eliseev, A., Emery, S., Enqvist, T., Enqvist, K., Epprecht, L., Erykalov, A. N., Esanu, T., Franco, D., Friend, M., Galymov, V., Gavrilov, G., Gendotti, A., Giganti, C., Gilardoni, S., Goddard, B., Gomoiu, C. M., Gornushkin, Y. A., Gorodetzky, P., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Horikawa, S., Huitu, K., Izmaylov, A., Jipa, A., Kainulainen, K., Karadzhov, Y., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kopylov, A. N., Korzenev, A., Kosyanenko, S., Kryn, D., Kudenko, Y., Kuusiniemi, P., Lazanu, I., Lazaridis, C., Levy, J. -M., Loo, K., Maalampi, J., Margineanu, R. M., Marteau, J., Martin-Mari, C., Matveev, V., Mazzucato, E., Mefodiev, A., Mineev, O., Mirizzi, A., Mitrica, B., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Narita, S., Nesterenko, D. A., Nguyen, K., Nikolics, K., Noah, E., Novikov, Yu., Oprima, A., Osborne, J., Ovsyannikova, T., Papaphilippou, Y., Pascoli, S., Patzak, T., Pectu, M., Pennacchio, E., Periale, L., Pessard, H., Popov, B., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Resnati, F., Ristea, O., Robert, A., Rubbia, A., Rummukainen, K., Saftoiu, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez-Galan, F., Sarkamo, J., Saviano, N., Scantamburlo, E., Sergiampietri, F., Sgalaberna, D., Shaposhnikova, E., Slupecki, M., Smargianaki, D., Stanca, D., Steerenberg, R., Sterian, A. R., Sterian, P., Stoica, S., Strabel, C., Suhonen, J., Suvorov, V., Toma, G., Tonazzo, A., Trzaska, W. H., Tsenov, R., Tuominen, K., Valram, M., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Vannucci, F., Vasseur, G., Velotti, F., Velten, P., Venturi, V., Viant, T., Vihonen, S., Vincke, H., Vorobyev, A., Weber, A., Wu, S., Yershov, N., Zambelli, L., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Observatory (LBNO) initially consists of $\sim 20$ kton liquid double phase TPC complemented by a magnetised iron calorimeter, to be installed at the Pyh\"asalmi mine, at a distance of 2300 km from CERN. The conventional neutrino beam is produced by 400 GeV protons accelerated at the SPS accelerator delivering 700 kW of power. The long baseline provides a unique opportunity to study neutrino flavour oscillations over their 1st and 2nd oscillation maxima exploring the $L/E$ behaviour, and distinguishing effects arising from $\delta_{CP}$ and matter. In this paper we show how this comprehensive physics case can be further enhanced and complemented if a neutrino beam produced at the Protvino IHEP accelerator complex, at a distance of 1160 km, and with modest power of 450 kW is aimed towards the same far detectors. We show that the coupling of two independent sub-MW conventional neutrino and antineutrino beams at different baselines from CERN and Protvino will allow to measure CP violation in the leptonic sector at a confidence level of at least $3\sigma$ for 50\% of the true values of $\delta_{CP}$ with a 20 kton detector. With a far detector of 70 kton, the combination allows a $3\sigma$ sensitivity for 75\% of the true values of $\delta_{CP}$ after 10 years of running. Running two independent neutrino beams, each at a power below 1 MW, is more within today's state of the art than the long-term operation of a new single high-energy multi-MW facility, which has several technical challenges and will likely require a learning curve., Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures

Published
2014

145. Optimised sensitivity to leptonic CP violation from spectral information: the LBNO case at 2300 km baseline

Author

Collaboration, LAGUNA-LBNO, Agarwalla, S. K., Agostino, L., Aittola, M., Alekou, A., Andrieu, B., Antoniou, F., Asfandiyarov, R., Autiero, D., Bésida, O., Balik, A., Ballett, P., Bandac, I., Banerjee, D., Bartmann, W., Bay, F., Biskup, B., Blebea-Apostu, A. M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bolognesi, S., Borriello, E., Brancus, I., Bravar, A., Buizza-Avanzini, M., Caiulo, D., Calin, M., Calviani, M., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Cata-Danil, G., Chakraborty, S., Charitonidis, N., Chaussard, L., Chesneanu, D., Chipesiu, F., Crivelli, P., Dawson, J., De Bonis, I., Declais, Y., Sanchez, P. Del Amo, Delbart, A., Di~Luise, S., Duchesneau, D., Dumarchez, J., Efthymiopoulos, I., Eliseev, A., Emery, S., Enqvist, T., Enqvist, K., Epprecht, L., Erykalov, A. N., Esanu, T., Franco, D., Friend, M., Galymov, V., Gavrilov, G., Gendotti, A., Giganti, C., Gilardoni, S., Goddard, B., Gomoiu, C. M., Gornushkin, Y. A., Gorodetzky, P., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Horikawa, S., Huitu, K., Izmaylov, A., Jipa, A., Kainulainen, K., Karadzhov, Y., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kopylov, A. N., Korzenev, A., Kosyanenko, S., Kryn, D., Kudenko, Y., Kuusiniemi, P., Lazanu, I., Lazaridis, C., Levy, J. -M., Loo, K., Maalampi, J., Margineanu, R. M., Marteau, J., Martin-Mari, C., Matveev, V., Mazzucato, E., Mefodiev, A., Mineev, O., Mirizzi, A., Mitrica, B., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Narita, S., Nesterenko, D. A., Nguyen, K., Nikolics, K., Noah, E., Novikov, Yu., Oprima, A., Osborne, J., Ovsyannikova, T., Papaphilippou, Y., Pascoli, S., Patzak, T., Pectu, M., Pennacchio, E., Periale, L., Pessard, H., Popov, B., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Resnati, F., Ristea, O., Robert, A., Rubbia, A., Rummukainen, K., Saftoiu, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez-Galan, F., Sarkamo, J., Saviano, N., Scantamburlo, E., Sergiampietri, F., Sgalaberna, D., Shaposhnikova, E., Slupecki, M., Smargianaki, D., Stanca, D., Steerenberg, R., Sterian, A. R., Sterian, P., Stoica, S., Strabel, C., Suhonen, J., Suvorov, V., Toma, G., Tonazzo, A., Trzaska, W. H., Tsenov, R., Tuominen, K., Valram, M., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Vannucci, F., Vasseur, G., Velotti, F., Velten, P., Venturi, V., Viant, T., Vihonen, S., Vincke, H., Vorobyev, A., Weber, A., Wu, S., Yershov, N., Zambelli, L., and Zito, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

One of the main goals of the Long Baseline Neutrino Observatory (LBNO) is to study the $L/E$ behaviour (spectral information) of the electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance probabilities, in order to determine the unknown CP-violation phase $\delta_{CP}$ and discover CP-violation in the leptonic sector. The result is based on the measurement of the appearance probabilities in a broad range of energies, covering t he 1st and 2nd oscillation maxima, at a very long baseline of 2300 km. The sensitivity of the experiment can be maximised by optimising the energy spectra of the neutrino and anti-neutrino fluxes. Such an optimisation requires exploring an extended range of parameters describing in details the geometries and properties of the primary protons, hadron target and focusing elements in the neutrino beam line. In this paper we present a numerical solution that leads to an optimised energy spectra and study its impact on the sensitivity of LBNO to discover leptonic CP violation. In the optimised flux both 1st and 2nd oscillation maxima play an important role in the CP sensitivity. The studies also show that this configuration is less sensitive to systematic errors (e.g. on the total event rates) than an experiment which mainly relies on the neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry at the 1st maximum to determine the existence of CP-violation., Comment: 25 pages, 20 figures

Published
2014

146. K∗(892)0GeV/c meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 40 and 80 K∗(892)0GeV/c beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author

Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Baszczyk, M., Battagia, D., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Koshio, J., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Matyja, A., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.

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2022
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147. Electroexcitation of the Δ+(1232) at low momentum transfer

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Blomberg, A, Anez, D, Sparveris, N, Sarty, AJ, Paolone, M, Gilad, S, Higinbotham, D, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Allada, K, Anderson, B, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Baghdasaryan, H, Bai, X, Beck, A, Beck, S, Bellini, V, Benmokhtar, F, Boeglin, W, Camacho, CM, Camsonne, A, Chen, C, Chen, JP, Chirapatpimol, K, Cisbani, E, Dalton, M, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, De Leo, R, Flay, D, Fomin, N, Friend, M, Frullani, S, Fuchey, E, Garibaldi, F, Gilman, R, Gu, C, Hamilton, D, Hanretty, C, Hansen, O, Hashemi Shabestari, M, Hen, O, Holmstrom, T, Huang, M, Iqbal, S, Kalantarians, N, Kang, H, Kelleher, A, Khandaker, M, Korover, I, Leckey, J, LeRose, J, Lindgren, R, Long, E, Mammei, J, Margaziotis, DJ, Martí Jimenez-Arguello, A, Meekins, D, Meziani, ZE, Mihovilovic, M, Muangma, N, Norum, B, Nuruzzaman, Pan, K, Phillips, S, Piasetzky, E, Polychronopoulou, A, Pomerantz, I, Posik, M, Punjabi, V, Qian, X, Rakhman, A, Reimer, PE, Riordan, S, Ron, G, Saha, A, Schulte, E, Selvy, L, Shneor, R, Sirca, S, Sjoegren, J, Subedi, R, Sulkosky, V, Tireman, W, Wang, D, Watson, J, Wojtsekhowski, B, Yan, W, Yaron, I, Ye, Z, Zhan, X, Zhang, J, Zhang, Y, Zhao, B, Zhao, Z, Zheng, X, and Zhu, P

Subjects
CMR, Pion electroproduction, Nucleon deformation, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract

We report on new measurements at the resonance at the low momentum transfer region, where the mesonic cloud dynamics is predicted to be dominant and rapidly changing, offering a test bed for chiral effective field theory calculations. The new data explore the dependence of the resonant quadrupole amplitudes and for the first time indicate that the Electric and the Coulomb quadrupole amplitudes converge as. The measurements of the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude have been extended to the lowest momentum transfer ever reached, and suggest that more than half of its magnitude is attributed to the mesonic cloud in this region. The new data disagree with predictions of constituent quark models and are in reasonable agreement with dynamical calculations that include pion cloud effects, chiral effective field theory and lattice calculations. The measurements indicate that improvement is required to the theoretical calculations and provide valuable input that will allow their refinements.

Published
2016

148. Measurement of the muon beam direction and muon flux for the T2K neutrino experiment

Author

Suzuki, K., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Bay, F., Bronner, C., Ereditato, A., Friend, M., Hartz, M., Hiraki, T., Ichikawa, A. K., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Juget, F., Kikawa, T., Kobayashi, T., Kubo, H., Matsuoka, K., Maruyama, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakadaira, T., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Oyama, Y., Pistillo, C., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Suzuki, S. Y., Tada, S., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., and Yokoyama, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) neutrino experiment measures neutrino oscillations by using an almost pure muon neutrino beam produced at the J-PARC accelerator facility. The T2K muon monitor was installed to measure the direction and stability of the muon beam which is produced together with the muon neutrino beam. The systematic error in the muon beam direction measurement was estimated, using data and MC simulation, to be 0.28 mrad. During beam operation, the proton beam has been controlled using measurements from the muon monitor and the direction of the neutrino beam has been tuned to within 0.3 mrad with respect to the designed beam-axis. In order to understand the muon beam properties,measurement of the absolute muon yield at the muon monitor was conducted with an emulsion detector. The number of muon tracks was measured to be $(4.06\pm0.05)\times10^4$ cm$^{-2}$ normalized with $4\times10^{11}$ protons on target with 250 kA horn operation. The result is in agreement with the prediction which is corrected based on hadron production data.

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2014
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149. Measurement of the $\nu_\mu$ CCQE cross section on carbon with the ND280 detector at T2K

Author

T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Adam, J., Aihara, H., Akiri, T., Andreopoulos, C., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Assylbekov, S., Autiero, D., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bass, M., Batkiewicz, M., Bay, F., Berardi, V., Berger, B. E., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bojechko, C., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Buchanan, N., Calland, R. G., Rodríguez, J. Caravaca, Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Cherdack, D., Christodoulou, G., Clifton, A., Coleman, J., Coleman, S. J., Collazuol, G., Connolly, K., Cremonesi, L., Dabrowska, A., Danko, I., Das, R., Davis, S., de Perio, P., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duboyski, T., Duffy, K., Dumarchez, J., Dytman, S., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Escudero, L., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Furmanski, A. P., Galymov, V., Garcia, A., Giffin, S., Giganti, C., Gilje, K., Goeldi, D., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Gudin, D., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haigh, M. D., Hamilton, P., Hansen, D., Hara, T., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hearty, C., Helmer, R. L., Hierholzer, M., Hignight, J., Hillairet, A., Himmel, A., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Holeczek, J., Horikawa, S., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ieki, K., Ieva, M., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Irvine, T. J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Iyogi, K., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Kanazawa, Y., Karlen, D., Karpikov, I., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kielczewska, D., Kikawa, T., Kilinski, A., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Kitching, P., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Larkin, E., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazos, M., Lindner, T., Lister, C., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marino, A. D., Marteau, J., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Miller, C. A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mueller, Th. A., Murakami, A., Murdoch, M., Murphy, S., Myslik, J., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Ohta, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Petrov, Y., Pickard, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Plonski, P., Poplawska, E., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. M., Poutissou, R., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Redij, A., Reeves, M., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruterbories, D., Sacco, R., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sato, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schoppmann, S., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Shustrov, Y., Sinclair, P., Smith, B., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sorel, M., Southwell, L., Stamoulis, P., Steinmann, J., Still, B., Suda, Y., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takahashi, S., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, M. M., Terhorst, D., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorley, A., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Totsuka, Y., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vacheret, A., Vagins, M., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Wakamatsu, K., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Warzycha, W., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Williamson, Z., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wongjirad, T., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, K., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Zmuda, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic (CCQE) interaction, $\nu_{l} + n \rightarrow l^{-} + p$, is the dominant CC process at $E_\nu \sim 1$ GeV and contributes to the signal in accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments operating at intermediate neutrino energies. This paper reports a measurement by the T2K experiment of the $\nu_{\mu}$ CCQE cross section on a carbon target with the off-axis detector based on the observed distribution of muon momentum ($p_\mu$) and angle with respect to the incident neutrino beam ($\theta_\mu$). The flux-integrated CCQE cross section was measured to be $(0.83 \pm 0.12) \times 10^{-38}\textrm{ cm}^{2}$ in good agreement with NEUT MC value of ${0.88 \times 10^{-38}} \textrm{ cm}^{2}$. The energy dependence of the CCQE cross section is also reported. The axial mass, $M_A^{QE}$, of the dipole axial form factor was extracted assuming the Smith-Moniz CCQE model with a relativistic Fermi gas nuclear model. Using the absolute (shape-only) $p_{\mu}cos\theta_\mu$ distribution, the effective $M_A^{QE}$ parameter was measured to be ${1.26^{+0.21}_{-0.18} \textrm{ GeV}/c^{2}}$ (${1.43^{+0.28}_{-0.22} \textrm{ GeV}/c^{2}}$).

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2014
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150. Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Electron-Deuteron Inelastic Scattering

Author

Wang, D., Pan, K., Subedi, R., Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Arrington, J., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Erler, J., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Golge, S., Grimm, K., Hafidi, K., Hansen, J. -O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R., Holmstrom, T., Holt, R. J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Jen, C. M., Jones, D., Kang, Hoyoung, King, P. M., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Liyanage, N., Long, E., McNulty, D., Margaziotis, D. J., Meddi, F., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Mesick, K. E., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, A., Oh, Y., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Rider, K., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rubin, J., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Širca, S., Souder, P. A., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, L., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The parity-violating asymmetries between a longitudinally-polarized electron beam and an unpolarized deuterium target have been measured recently. The measurement covered two kinematic points in the deep inelastic scattering region and five in the nucleon resonance region. We provide here details of the experimental setup, data analysis, and results on all asymmetry measurements including parity-violating electron asymmetries and those of inclusive pion production and beam-normal asymmetries. The parity-violating deep-inelastic asymmetries were used to extract the electron-quark weak effective couplings, and the resonance asymmetries provided the first evidence for quark-hadron duality in electroweak observables. These electron asymmetries and their interpretation were published earlier, but are presented here in more detail., Comment: 50 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. C

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2014
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