Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with 6.6×10²⁰ protons on target

Ariga, Akitaka; Göldi, Damian; Ereditato, Antonio; Hierholzer, Martin; Nirkko, Martti; Pistillo, Ciro; Redij, Asmita Ajit (2015). Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with 6.6×10²⁰ protons on target. Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 91(7), p. 72010. American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072010

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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: sin²θ₂₃= 0.514+0.055−0.056 and ∆m²_32 = (2.51 ± 0.10) × 10⁻³ eV²/c⁴
Inverted Hierarchy: sin²θ₂₃= 0.511 ± 0.055 and ∆m²_13 = (2.48 ± 0.10) × 10⁻³ eV²/c⁴
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, |∆m^2|, sin²θ₂₃, sin²θ₁₃, δCP , 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 δCP = [0.15, 0.83]π for normal hierarchy and δCP = [−0.08, 1.09]π 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:
sin²θ₂₃= 0.528+0.055−0.038 and |∆m²_32| = (2.51 ± 0.11) × 10⁻³ eV²/c⁴.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Ariga, Akitaka, Göldi, Damian, Ereditato, Antonio, Hierholzer, Martin, Nirkko, Martti, Pistillo, Ciro, Redij, Asmita Ajit

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1550-7998

Publisher:

American Physical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ciro Pistillo

Date Deposited:

23 Jun 2016 10:41

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:56

Publisher DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072010

Additional Information:

Kollaboration. Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt.

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.82789

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/82789

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