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T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 3.13×1021 protons on target

K. Abe53, N. Akhlaq44, R. Akutsu27, A. Ali31, C. Alt10, C. Andreopoulos51,33, M. Antonova18, S. Aoki30, T. Arihara56 et al. (The T2K Collaboration)

T. Arihara56, Y. Asada65, Y. Ashida31, E. T. Atkin20, Y. Awataguchi56, G. J. Barker62, G. Barr41, D. Barrow41, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak14, A. Beloshapkin25, F. Bench33, V. Berardi21, L. Berns55, S. Bhadra66, A. Blondel50,12, S. Bolognesi5, T. Bonus64, B. Bourguille17, S. B. Boyd62, A. Bravar12, D. Bravo Berguño1, C. Bronner53, S. Bron12, A. Bubak49, M. Buizza Avanzini9, S. Cao15, S. L. Cartwright48, M. G. Catanesi21, A. Cervera18, D. Cherdack16, G. Christodoulou11, M. Cicerchia23,*, J. Coleman33, G. Collazuol23, L. Cook41,27, D. Coplowe41, A. Cudd6, G. De Rosa22, T. Dealtry32, C. C. Delogu23, S. R. Dennis33, C. Densham51, A. Dergacheva25, F. Di Lodovico29, S. Dolan11, T. A. Doyle32, J. Dumarchez50, P. Dunne20, A. Eguchi52, L. Eklund13, S. Emery-Schrenk5, A. Ereditato2, A. J. Finch32, G. A. Fiorentini66, C. Francois2, M. Friend15,†, Y. Fujii15,†, R. Fukuda57, Y. Fukuda36, K. Fusshoeller10, C. Giganti50, M. Gonin9, A. Gorin25, M. Guigue50, D. R. Hadley62, P. Hamacher-Baumann47, M. Hartz59,27, T. Hasegawa15,†, S. Hassani5, N. C. Hastings15, Y. Hayato53,27, A. Hiramoto31, M. Hogan7, J. Holeczek49, N. T. Hong Van19,26, T. Honjo40, F. Iacob23, A. K. Ichikawa31, M. Ikeda53, T. Ishida15,†, M. Ishitsuka57, K. Iwamoto52, A. Izmaylov25, N. Izumi57, M. Jakkapu15, B. Jamieson63, S. J. Jenkins48, C. Jesús-Valls17, P. Jonsson20, C. K. Jung38,‡, P. B. Jurj20, M. Kabirnezhad41, H. Kakuno56, J. Kameda53, S. P. Kasetti34, Y. Kataoka53, Y. Katayama65, T. Katori29, E. Kearns3,27,‡, M. Khabibullin25, A. Khotjantsev25, T. Kikawa31, H. Kikutani52, S. King29, J. Kisiel49, T. Kobata40, T. Kobayashi15,†, L. Koch41, A. Konaka59, L. L. Kormos32, Y. Koshio39,‡, A. Kostin25, K. Kowalik37, Y. Kudenko25,§, S. Kuribayashi31, R. Kurjata61, T. Kutter34, M. Kuze55, L. Labarga1, J. Lagoda37, M. Lamoureux23, D. Last42, M. Laveder23, M. Lawe32, R. P. Litchfield13, S. L. Liu38, A. Longhin23, L. Ludovici24, X. Lu41, T. Lux17, L. N. Machado22, L. Magaletti21, K. Mahn35, M. Malek48, S. Manly45, L. Maret12, A. D. Marino6, L. Marti-Magro53,27, T. Maruyama15,*, T. Matsubara15, K. Matsushita52, C. Mauger42, K. Mavrokoridis33, E. Mazzucato5, N. McCauley33, J. McElwee48, K. S. McFarland45, C. McGrew38, A. Mefodiev25, M. Mezzetto23, A. Minamino65, O. Mineev25, S. Mine4, M. Miura53,‡, L. Molina Bueno10, S. Moriyama53,‡, Th. A. Mueller9, L. Munteanu5, Y. Nagai6, T. Nakadaira15,†, M. Nakahata53,27, Y. Nakajima53, A. Nakamura39, K. Nakamura27,15,†, Y. Nakano30, S. Nakayama53,27, T. Nakaya31,27, K. Nakayoshi15,†, C. E. R. Naseby20, T. V. Ngoc19,∥, V. Q. Nguyen50, K. Niewczas64, Y. Nishimura28, E. Noah12, T. S. Nonnenmacher20, F. Nova51, J. Nowak32, J. C. Nugent13, H. M. O’Keeffe32, L. O’Sullivan48, T. Odagawa31, T. Ogawa15, R. Okada39, K. Okumura54,27, T. Okusawa40, R. A. Owen44, Y. Oyama15,†, V. Palladino22, V. Paolone43, M. Pari23, W. C. Parker46, S. Parsa12, J. Pasternak20, M. Pavin59, D. Payne33, G. C. Penn33, L. Pickering35, C. Pidcott48, G. Pintaudi65, C. Pistillo2, B. Popov50,¶, K. Porwit49, M. Posiadala-Zezula60, A. Pritchard33, B. Quilain9, T. Radermacher47, E. Radicioni21, B. Radics10, P. N. Ratoff32, C. Riccio38, E. Rondio37, S. Roth47, A. Rubbia10, A. C. Ruggeri22, C. Ruggles13, A. Rychter61, K. Sakashita15,†, F. Sánchez12, G. Santucci66, C. M. Schloesser10, K. Scholberg8,‡, M. Scott20, Y. Seiya40,**, T. Sekiguchi15,†, H. Sekiya53,27,‡, D. Sgalaberna10, A. Shaikhiev25, A. Shaykina25, M. Shiozawa53,27, W. Shorrock20, A. Shvartsman25, K. Skwarczynski37, M. Smy4, J. T. Sobczyk64, H. Sobel4,27, F. J. P. Soler13, Y. Sonoda53, R. Spina21, S. Suvorov25,50, A. Suzuki30, S. Y. Suzuki15,†, Y. Suzuki27, A. A. Sztuc20, M. Tada15,†, M. Tajima31, A. Takeda53, Y. Takeuchi30,27, H. K. Tanaka53,‡, Y. Tanihara65, M. Tani31, N. Teshima40, L. F. Thompson48, W. Toki7, C. Touramanis33, T. Towstego58, K. M. Tsui33, T. Tsukamoto15,†, M. Tzanov34, Y. Uchida20, M. Vagins27,4, S. Valder62, D. Vargas17, G. Vasseur5, C. Vilela11, W. G. S. Vinning62, T. Vladisavljevic51, T. Wachala14, J. Walker63, J. G. Walsh32, Y. Wang38, D. Wark51,41, M. O. Wascko20, A. Weber51,41, R. Wendell31,‡, M. J. Wilking38, C. Wilkinson2, J. R. Wilson29, K. Wood38, C. Wret45, J. Xia54, K. Yamamoto40,**, C. Yanagisawa38,††, G. Yang38, T. Yano53, K. Yasutome31, N. Yershov25, M. Yokoyama52,‡, T. Yoshida55, M. Yu66, A. Zalewska14, J. Zalipska37, K. Zaremba61, G. Zarnecki37, M. Ziembicki61, M. Zito50, and S. Zsoldos29 (The T2K Collaboration)

  • 1University Autonoma Madrid, Department of Theoretical Physics, 28049 Madrid, Spain
  • 2University of Bern, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Bern, Switzerland
  • 3Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • 4University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, California, USA
  • 5IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 6University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • 7Colorado State University, Department of Physics, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
  • 8Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  • 9Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Palaiseau, France
  • 10ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 11CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Genve 23, Switzerland
  • 12University of Geneva, Section de Physique, DPNC, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 13University of Glasgow, School of Physics and Astronomy, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • 14H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
  • 15High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
  • 16University of Houston, Department of Physics, Houston, Texas, USA
  • 17Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
  • 18IFIC (CSIC & University of Valencia), Valencia, Spain
  • 19Institute For Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Education (IFIRSE), ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
  • 20Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • 21INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, Bari, Italy
  • 22INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Napoli, Italy
  • 23INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova, Italy
  • 24INFN Sezione di Roma and Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Roma, Italy
  • 25Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
  • 26International Centre of Physics, Institute of Physics (IOP), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), 10 Dao Tan, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 27Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
  • 28Keio University, Department of Physics, Kanagawa, Japan
  • 29King’s College London, Department of Physics, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
  • 30Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
  • 31Kyoto University, Department of Physics, Kyoto, Japan
  • 32Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • 33University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 34Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
  • 35Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • 36Miyagi University of Education, Department of Physics, Sendai, Japan
  • 37National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
  • 38State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook, New York, USA
  • 39Okayama University, Department of Physics, Okayama, Japan
  • 40Osaka City University, Department of Physics, Osaka, Japan
  • 41Oxford University, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • 42University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
  • 43University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • 44Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
  • 45University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York, USA
  • 46Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Physics, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • 47RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany
  • 48University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • 49University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Katowice, Poland
  • 50Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Paris, France
  • 51STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom
  • 52University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan
  • 53University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kamioka Observatory, Kamioka, Japan
  • 54University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Japan
  • 55Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan
  • 56Tokyo Metropolitan University, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan
  • 57Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Noda, Chiba, Japan
  • 58University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 59TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • 60University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
  • 61Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  • 62University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • 63University of Winnipeg, Department of Physics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • 64Wroclaw University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Wroclaw, Poland
  • 65Yokohama National University, Department of Physics, Yokohama, Japan
  • 66York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • *also at INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
  • Also at J-PARC, Tokai, Japan.
  • Affiliated member at Kavli IPMU (WPI), the University of Tokyo, Japan.
  • §Also at National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
  • Also at the Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
  • Also at JINR, Dubna, Russia.
  • **Also at Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP).
  • ††Also at BMCC/CUNY, Science Department, New York, New York, USA.

Phys. Rev. D 103, L011101 – Published 26 January, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.L011101

Abstract

We report measurements by the T2K experiment of the parameters θ23 and Δm322, which govern the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos in the three-flavor PMNS neutrino oscillation model at T2K’s neutrino energy and propagation distance. Utilizing the ability of the experiment to run with either a mainly neutrino or a mainly antineutrino beam, muon-like events from each beam mode are used to measure these parameters separately for neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. Data taken from 1.49×1021 protons on target (POT) in neutrino mode and 1.64×1021 POT in antineutrino mode are used. The best-fit values obtained by T2K were sin2(θ23)=0.510.07+0.06(0.430.05+0.21) and Δm322=2.470.09+0.08(2.500.13+0.18)×103eV2/c4 for neutrinos (antineutrinos). No significant differences between the values of the parameters describing the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos were observed. An analysis using an effective two-flavor neutrino oscillation model where the sine of the mixing angle is allowed to take nonphysical values larger than 1 is also performed to check the consistency of our data with the three-flavor model. Our data were found to be consistent with a physical value for the mixing angle.

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