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The T2K Experiment
- Source :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2011, 659, pp.106-135. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.067⟩, Nucl.Instrum.Meth., T2K Collaboration Abe, K. Cervera Villanueva, Anselmo Escudero Sánchez, Lorena Gómez Cadenas, Juan José Hansen, C. Monfregola, Laura Sorel, Michel Stamoulis, Panagiotis 2011 The T2K experiment Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 659 1 106 135, RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, instname, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Elsevier, 2011, 659, pp.106-135. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.067⟩, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. A, Vol. 659, No 1 (2011) pp. 106-135, NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2011.
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Abstract
- The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Its main goal is to measure the last unknown lepton sector mixing angle {\theta}_{13} by observing {\nu}_e appearance in a {\nu}_{\mu} beam. It also aims to make a precision measurement of the known oscillation parameters, {\Delta}m^{2}_{23} and sin^{2} 2{\theta}_{23}, via {\nu}_{\mu} disappearance studies. Other goals of the experiment include various neutrino cross section measurements and sterile neutrino searches. The experiment uses an intense proton beam generated by the J-PARC accelerator in Tokai, Japan, and is composed of a neutrino beamline, a near detector complex (ND280), and a far detector (Super-Kamiokande) located 295 km away from J-PARC. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the instrumentation aspect of the T2K experiment and a summary of the vital information for each subsystem.<br />Comment: 33 pages, 32 figures, Submitted and accepted by NIM A. Editor: Prof. Chang Kee Jung, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook, chang.jung@sunysb.edu, 631-632-8108 Submit Edited to remove line numbers
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics
Sterile neutrino
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Neutrino oscillation
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
ddc:500.2
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
0103 physical sciences
[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]
Long baseline
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
Neutrinos
010306 general physics
physics.ins-det
Instrumentation
QC
Physics
T2K
hep-ex
010308 nuclear & particles physics
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
T2K experiment
J-PARC
Super-Kamiokande
Física
Neutrino detector
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Neutrino
Lepton
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01689002 and 18729576
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2011, 659, pp.106-135. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.067⟩, Nucl.Instrum.Meth., T2K Collaboration Abe, K. Cervera Villanueva, Anselmo Escudero Sánchez, Lorena Gómez Cadenas, Juan José Hansen, C. Monfregola, Laura Sorel, Michel Stamoulis, Panagiotis 2011 The T2K experiment Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 659 1 106 135, RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, instname, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Elsevier, 2011, 659, pp.106-135. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.067⟩, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. A, Vol. 659, No 1 (2011) pp. 106-135, NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....20e90e6d33862a62c1f76d984d32af5c