Measurement of νμ induced charged current inclusive cross section on water using the near detector of the T2K experiment
| dc.contributor.author | Das, Rajarshi, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Toki, Walter, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Robert, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berger, Bruce, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Menoni, Carmen, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-12T23:03:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-12T23:03:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) Experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan with the primary goal to measure precisely multiple neutrino flavor oscillation parameters. An off-axis muon neutrino beam peaking at 600 MeV is generated at the JPARC facility and directed towards the 50 kiloton Super-Kamiokande (SK) water Cherenkov detector located 295 km away. Measurements from a Near Detector that is 280m downstream of the neutrino beam target are used to constrain uncertainties in the beam flux prediction and neutrino interaction rates. We present a selection of inclusive charged current neutrino interactions on water. We used several sub-detectors in the ND280 complex, including a Pi-Zero detector (P0D) that has alternating planes of plastic scintillator and water bag layers, a time projection chamber (TPC) and fine-grained detector (FGD) to detect and reconstruct muons from neutrino charged current events. We use a statistical subtraction method with the water-in and water-out inclusive selection to extract a flux-averaged, νμ induced, charged current inclusive cross section. We also outline the evaluation of systematic uncertainties. We find an absolute cross section of ⟨σ⟩Φ = (6.37 ± 0.157(stat.) (−1.060/+0.910(sys.)) × 10−39 (cm2/H2O nucleon). This is the first νμ charged current inclusive cross section measurement on water. | |
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| dc.format.medium | doctoral dissertations | |
| dc.identifier | Das_colostate_0053A_13512.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173376 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2000-2019 | |
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| dc.title | Measurement of νμ induced charged current inclusive cross section on water using the near detector of the T2K experiment | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
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