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T2K & beyond

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2016-09-08 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

This article presents the status of the art of the T2K experiment and the measurements prospects for the incoming years. After a brief description of the experiment, the most recent results will be illustrated. The observation of the electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam and the new high-precision measurements of the mixing angle theta13 by the reactor experiments have led to a re-evaluation of the expected sensitivity to the oscillation parameters, relative to what was given in the original T2K proposal. For this reason the new physics potential of T2K for 7.8 x 10**21 p.o.t. and for a data exposure 3 times larger than it's expected to be reachable with accelerator and beam line upgrades in 2026 before the start of operation of the next generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments will also be described in the text. In particular the last challenging scenario opens the door to the possibility to obtain, under some conditions, a 3 sigma measurement excluding sin(deltaCP= 0.

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@article{arxiv.1609.02069,
  title  = {T2K & beyond},
  author = {M. G. Catanesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02069},
  year   = {2016}
}