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The T2K experiment

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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 θ13 by observing νe appearance in a νμ beam. It also aims to make a precision measurement of the known oscillation parameters, Δm232 and sin22θ23, via νμ 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.

Neutrino Physics ResearchParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesAstrophysics and Cosmic PhenomenaNeutrino oscillationBeamlinePhysicsNeutrinoNuclear physicsJ-PARCParticle physicsDetectorInstrumentation (computer programming)Beam (structure)

Funding

  • National Science Foundation
  • TRIUMF
  • National Research Foundation
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  • Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
  • Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
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