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Current status of the T2K experiment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-14 v1

Abstract

The T2K long-baseline neutrino-oscillationexperiment was started in January 2010 for the purpose of physics data-taking. Until the massive earthquake on March 11, 2011 in Japan, 1.43×10201.43\times 10^{20} pot data were accumulated. In this data, 6 possible νe\nu_{e} appearance candidates are found forexpected background of 1.5±\pm0.3(syst.)if sin22θ13=0\sin^{2}2\theta_{13}=0 is assumed.The probability that 6 or more events can be observed for1.5±\pm0.3 expected events is 7×103\times10^{-3},equivalent to 2.5σ\sigma significance. This is the first indication of a νe\nu_{e} appearance or, in other words, the first indication of a non-zero sin22θ13\sin^{2}2\theta_{13}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1108.4457,
  title  = {Current status of the T2K experiment},
  author = {Yuichi Oyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4457},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Talk at "2nd International Conference on Particle Physics (ICPP-Istanbul II)",Istanbul, Turkey, June 20-25, 2011. 10 pages, 10 figures

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