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Independent measurement of the T2K near detector constraint using the off-axis pi-zero detector

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dc.contributor.authorHogan, Matthew Gregory, author
dc.contributor.authorToki, Walter, advisor
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Robert, committee member
dc.contributor.authorBuchanan, Norman, committee member
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Wen, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-13T16:41:26Z
dc.date.available2020-01-13T16:41:26Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment hosted in Japan searching for electron neutrino appearance in a high purity muon neutrino beam. In order to constrain the systematic uncertainties in the oscillation analysis, a dedicated near detector (ND) complex called ND280 is located 280 meters from the neutrino production source in line of the beam. To date, the Fine Grain Detector (FGD) in ND280 has provided the ND constraint using a binned maximum likelihood estimate fit. This thesis describes the effort to validate the ND constraint using the same framework, but with an independent data set from the ND280 pi-zero detector (PØD). Expanding on previously developed PØD selections, new selections have been developed to select neutrino and antineutrino events in one and multiple track topologies on water and carbon. These selections are shown to have similar sensitivity to the T2K flux and cross section systematic uncertainties. Using the same parameterization as the official ND constraint result, a hypothesis test was conducted between the PØD-only and FGD-only data fit results. A p-value of 0.2865 was obtained indicating the two data sets are likely describing the same population of neutrinos and their interactions in T2K.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierHogan_colostate_0053A_15702.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/199737
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectND280
dc.subjectoscillation
dc.subjectT2K
dc.subjectneutrino
dc.subjectconstraint
dc.subjectphysics
dc.titleIndependent measurement of the T2K near detector constraint using the off-axis pi-zero detector
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thesis.degree.disciplinePhysics
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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