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1. Comparisons of the MINOS near and far detector readout systems at a test beam

Author: David Petyt, A. Belias, Ruben Saakyan, P. A. Symes, P. S. Miyagawa, Gary Drake, P. Shanahan, E. Falk, Caleb Smith, S. Murgia, D. G. Michael, R. J. Nichol, P. Vahle, Philip Harris, A. C. Weber, L. Jenner, M. Kordosky, N. Tagg, G. Crone, J. Hartnell, Karol Lang, S. Boyd, Juergen Thomas, R. Morse, T. C. Nicholls, M. A. Barker, Anatael Cabrera, D. E. Reyna, P. Adamson, G. F. Pearce, and R. P. Litchfield
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Optics, MINOS, Calibration, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business, Neutrino oscillation, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that uses two detectors separated by 734 km. The readout systems used for the two detectors are different and have to be independently calibrated. To verify and make a direct comparison of the calibrated response of the two readout systems, test beam data were acquired using a smaller calibration detector. This detector was simultaneously instrumented with both readout systems and exposed to the CERN PS T7 test beam. Differences in the calibrated response of the two systems are shown to arise from differences in response non-linearity, photomultiplier crosstalk, and threshold effects at the few percent level. These differences are reproduced by the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation to better than 1% and a scheme that corrects for these differences by calibrating the MC to match the data in each detector separately is presented. The overall difference in calorimetric response between the two readout systems is shown to be consistent with zero to a precision of 1.3% in data and 0.3% in MC with no significant energy dependence., 25 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2016

2. Charge-separated atmospheric neutrino-induced muons in the MINOS far detector

Author: S. Murgia, B. Speakman, D. J. Auty, A. Lebedev, D. G. Michael, M. Zois, M. Kordosky, P. S. Miyagawa, P. Stamoulis, V. K. Semenov, A. E. Kreymer, P. Vahle, C. Howcroft, G. Tzanakos, H. R. Gallagher, G. Koizumi, J. K. De Jong, P. Lucas, N. Mayer, M. Watabe, D. J. Boehnlein, J. Reichenbacher, D. A. Harris, David Petyt, Marvin L Marshak, E. A. Peterson, M. Bishai, Warner A. Miller, Ken Heller, Mcd Sanchez, T. Joffe-Minor, Ž Pavlović, T. Kafka, M. Dierckxsens, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, A. C. Weber, P. A. Symes, Stanley G. Wojcicki, S. M. Seun, M. Dorman, Jie Liu, K. Grzelak, M. D. Messier, S. Childress, R. Piteira, S. R. Mishra, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, V. A. Ryabov, E. Buckley-Geer, J. Boehm, J. J. Evans, D. Rahman, S. Avvakumov, G. Tinti, A. Holin, T. Bergfeld, S. M S Kasahara, A. D. Marino, R. C. Webb, J. A. Thompson, Jorge G. Morfin, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, M. C. Goodman, M. Ishitsuka, Harvey B Newman, B. R. Becker, D. Bogert, D. J. Koskinen, A. Belias, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, J. H. Cobb, T. Durkin, C. James, E. P. Hartouni, D. R. Ward, A. Mislivec, R. J. Nichol, Douglas Wright, Anatael Cabrera, I. Trostin, John Marshall, N. Grossman, T. M. Raufer, D. Bhattacharya, A. M. McGowan, S. K. Kotelnikov, K. Ruddick, E. Grashorn, H. Zheng, J. Hartnell, S. L. Mufson, R. Ospanov, T. C. Nicholls, Q. K. Wu, K. E. Arms, J. Gogos, J. Schneps, C. Rosenfeld, V. A. Tsarev, T. H. Fields, R. P. Litchfield, R. Pittam, Ruben Saakyan, Sacha E Kopp, G. M. Irwin, G. A. Giurgiu, D. Cherdack, R. Gran, G. J. Bock, H. A. Rubin, C. P. Ward, Carlos Escobar, M. V. Frohne, D. Indurthy, P. Schreiner, M. V. Diwan, A. Marchionni, C. Andreopoulos, H. J. Kang, D. E. Reyna, Andrew Blake, R. K. Plunkett, E. Falk Harris, C. D. Moore, Alec Habig, T. Osiecki, A. Sousa, Francisco Yumiceva, G. J. Feldman, W. Smart, J. Urheim, R. Armstrong, Brajesh C Choudhary, Peter D. Barnes, P. Adamson, B. C. Barish, W. P. Oliver, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, J. L. Thron, E. Tetteh-Lartey, R. Zwaska, J. K. Nelson, R. L. Talaga, D. A. Jensen, D. E. Jaffe, A. J. Culling, E. Beall, H. Ping, D. Drakoulakos, S. Kumaratunga, B. Rebel, M. S. Kim, B. Baller, V. Smirnitsky, Philip Harris, J. A. Musser, A. De Santo, R. H. Milburn, C. White, C. W. Peck, P. J. Litchfield, P. M. Border, Karol Lang, L. Mualem, V. Verebryusov, R. A. Rameika, T. Yang, R. Hatcher, A. R. Erwin, John Derek Chapman, J. R. Meier, G. I. Merzon, N. West, D. S. Ayres, L. Jenner, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, B. Bock, W. A. Mann, A. Godley, P. Gouffon, R. Lee, B. Viren, R. Ford, Caleb Smith, J. M. Paley, A. A. Wehmann, N. Tagg, T. Patzak, G.D. Barr, John Miller, Juergen Thomas, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino detector, MINOS, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Super-Kamiokande, Neutrino oscillation, Lepton
Abstract: We found 140 neutrino-induced muons in 854.24 live days in the MINOS far detector. We looked for evidence of neutrino disappearance in this data set by computing the ratio of the number of low momentum muons to the sum of the number of high momentum and unknown momentum muons for both data and Monte Carlo expectation in the absence of neutrino oscillations. The ratio of data and Monte Carlo ratios is consistent with an oscillation signal. A fit to the data for the oscillation parameters excludes the null oscillation hypothesis at the 94% confidence level. We separated the muons by charge sign in both the data and Monte Carlo events and found the ratio of the total number of negative to positive muons in both samples. The ratio of those ratios is a test of CPT conservation. The result is consistent with CPT conservation., 14 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2016
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3. The SOUDAN 2 detector - The operation and performance of the tracking calorimeter modules

Author: S. Yarker, L. Balka, M. A. Thomson, L. Mualem, M. Lowe, R.J. Cotton, G. Villaume, B. Saitta, Marvin L Marshak, T. H. Fields, W. Leeson, J. Schneps, Christian P. Minor, K. Johns, N. West, D. M. DeMuth, V. W. Edwards, R. H. Milburn, Graham L. Giller, P.D. Shield, D. S. Ayres, S. Heppelmann, P. J. Litchfield, S. M S Kasahara, D. Wall, L.M. Kirby-Gallagher, H.M. Gallagher, Warner A. Miller, S. J. Werkema, C. A. Woods, N. Mondal, J. L. Thron, V. Vassiliev, E.W.G. Wallis, D. Rosen, N. Hill, D. Roback, Edward May, T. Joyce, F. V. Lopez, G.D. Barr, G. F. Pearce, Maury Goodman, J. H. Cobb, N. Sundaralingam, U. DasGupta, C.B. Brooks, W. A. Mann, H. Courant, B. Ewen, S. P. Wakely, R. H. Giles, C. Garcia-Garcia, A. Napier, J. Kochocki, E.M. Nelson, B. Dahlin, N. P. Longley, M. Shupe, D. Schmid, P. M. Border, J. H. Hoftiezer, I. Ambats, J. W. Dawson, T. Kafka, L. E. Price, L. McMaster, G. J. Alner, W.W.M. Allison, L. Weems, C. Bode, D. Benjamin, R. N. Gray, W. P. Oliver, Donald H. Perkins, U.M. Wielgosz, R. Seidlein, David Ja Cockerill, R. Nickson, W. L. Barrett, J. Schlereth, A. Stassinakis, K. Ruddick, E. A. Peterson, S. Spear, D. J. Jankowski, K. Coover, D. Maxam, and M.H. Schub
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Plane (geometry), business.industry, Detector, Tracking (particle physics), Charged particle, Nuclear physics, Optics, Spatial reference system, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nucleon, business, Instrumentation, Image resolution
Abstract: SOUDAN 2 is a 960-ton tracking calorimeter which has been constructed to search for nucleon decay and other phenomena. The full detector consists of 224 calorimeter modules each weighing 4.3 tons. The modules consist of finely segmented iron instrumented with 1 m long drift tubes of 15 mm internal diameter. The tubes enable three spatial coordinates and dE/ dx to be recorded for charged particles traversing the tubes. The spatial resolution is 0.38 cm in the x-y plane and 0.65 cm in the z, or drift, direction. The operation and performance of the modules are discussed.
Published: 2016
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4. The T2K near detector data acquisition systems

Author: C. Angelsen, G.D. Barr, C. Metelko, M. Thorpe, N. West, T. Nicholls, and G. F. Pearce
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Event (computing), business.industry, Gigabit Ethernet, Detector, Electrical engineering, Local area network, Data acquisition, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Nuclear electronics, Calibration, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, business, Neutrino oscillation, Computer hardware
Abstract: T2K is a second generation long-baseline experiment in Japan, designed to perform precision studies of neutrino oscillations. A neutrino beam originating at the J-PARC facility is sampled by two near detectors, approximately 280 m distant from the source and directed towards the Kamioka underground facility, 295 km distant, where the Super-Kamiokande water Cerenkov detector is situated. Both the on-axis (INGRID) and off-axis (ND280) near detectors employ the MIDAS framework for their data acquisition systems. Events are selected via a flexible hardware trigger, which allows mixed operating modes incorporating beam spill, cosmic and calibration triggers. Data are acquired from the front-end electronics over optical Gigabit Ethernet links by custom MIDAS front-end applications distributed over a cluster of Linux computers. Event fragments from all sub-detectors are merged and logged on a central backend processor and then copied to remote storage for long-term archival. The system is also designed to allow flexible partitioning of sub-detectors for standalone diagnostics and calibration. We present the design of the DAQ system and report on experience gathered during early operation of the near detectors. © 2006 IEEE.
Published: 2016
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5. The T2K Side Muon Range Detector (SMRD)

Author: L. Golyshkin, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, M. Thorpe, A. T. Suzuki, J. Haremza, E. Shabalin, M. Noy, J. Liu, M. M. Khabibullin, J. Blocki, D. Naples, A. Zalewska, Michel Raymond, O. Perevozchikov, A. Kilinski, B. Hartfiel, K. Zaremba, J. Holeczek, R. Sulej, P. Mijakowski, Artur F. Izmaylov, O. V. Mineev, T. Szeglowski, M. Siyad, W. Qian, D. Northacker, D. Warner, W. Coleman, N. Yershov, D. Smith, W. Metcalf, A. N. Khotjantsev, J. Łagoda, T. Nicholls, T. Yano, M. Ziembicki, G.D. Barr, Michal Dziewiecki, B. Ellison, J. Reid, G. F. Pearce, T. Kutter, Jacek Świerblewski, Jan Kisiel, J. A. Nowak, Janusz Marzec, M. Szeptycka, C. J. Metelko, R.P. Kurjata, I. Z. Danko, J. Brinson, V. Paolone, Jan T. Sobczyk, Shigeki Aoki, T. Wąchała, N. Kulkarni, A. C. Weber, R. Gould, A. Dąbrowska, M. Posiadala, E. Rondio, P. Przewlocki, Marek Stodulski, M. Nauman, Yu. Kudenko, and T. Hara
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, T2K experiment, Particle detector, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, J-PARC, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Instrumentation
Abstract: The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aiming to observe the appearance of νe in a νμ beam. The νμ beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), observed with the 295 km distant Super-Kamiokande Detector and monitored by a suite of near detectors at 280 m from the proton target. The near detectors include a magnetized off-axis detector (ND280) which measures the unoscillated neutrino flux and neutrino cross-sections. The present paper describes the outermost component of ND280 which is a Side Muon Range Detector (SMRD) composed of scintillation counters with embedded wavelength shifting fibers and Multi-Pixel Photon Counter readout. The components, performance and response of the SMRD are presented. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
Published: 2016
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6. STUDY OF MUONS FROM THE DIRECTION OF CYGNUS-X-3 USING AN UNDERGROUND PROPORTIONAL-TUBE ARRAY

Author: L. McMaster, R. H. Milburn, David Ja Cockerill, M. Lowe, J. W. Dawson, P. D. Shield, J. H. Cobb, N. Sundaralingam, T. Kafka, R. H. Giles, P. J. Litchfield, J. Kochocki, D. Benjamin, A. Napier, Marvin L Marshak, Maury Goodman, B. Saitta, K. Ruddick, J. H. Hoftiezer, Ken Heller, W. P. Oliver, J. L. Thron, L. E. Price, K. Coover, C.B. Brooks, J. L. Schlereth, N. West, U. DasGupta, C. Garcia-Garcia, H. Courant, D. S. Ayres, L.M. Kirby-Gallagher, S. J. Werkema, G.D. Barr, W.W.M. Allison, W. L. Barrett, W. A. Mann, L. Balka, D. H. Perkins, M. Shupe, D. Schmid, B. Dahlin, D. J. Jankowski, I. Ambats, S. Heppelman, G. J. Alner, E. A. Peterson, D. Rosen, D. Roback, T. Joyce, F. V. Lopez, K. Johns, T. H. Fields, N. Hill, Warner A. Miller, G. F. Pearce, P. M. Border, M. A. Thomson, E. N. May, V. W. Edwards, and J. Schneps
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Muon, Argon, chemistry, Degree (graph theory), chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Elementary particle, Fermion, Particle detector, Lepton
Abstract: From July 1987 through March 1988 an array of proportional wire modules was operated as a muon detector at a depth of 2090 meters water equivalent in the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota. A spatial angular resolution of 1.2{degree} was achieved for muon tracking. A clean sample of 1.02{times}10{sup 5} muon trajectories recorded underground is used to search for an excess flux of muons from the direction of Cygnus X-3. For muons within the phase interval (0.6, 0.9) of the source's 4.8-h period, 90%-C.L. upper limits for fluxes arriving within 3{degree} and 1.5{degree} half-angle cones centered on the Cygnus X-3 direction are 8.5{times}10{sup {minus}11} cm{sup {minus}2}s{sup {minus}1} and 3.1{times}10{sup {minus}11} cm{sup {minus}2}s{sup {minus}1}, respectively.
Published: 2016
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7. Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS

Author: R. B. Patterson, M. D. Messier, M. Kordosky, Andrew Blake, D. J. Auty, Christopher G. White, A. M. McGowan, R. Toner, D. S. Ayres, J. J. Evans, P. Schreiner, B. Rebel, J. R. Meier, N. Graf, Carlos Escobar, R. Zwaska, R. K. Plunkett, Xian-Rong Huang, M. V. Diwan, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, E. Falk, R. Pittam, M. V. Frohne, Matthew L Strait, W. A. Mann, G. M. Irwin, P. Stamoulis, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, Joao A B Coelho, Rakesh Sharma, G. J. Feldman, M. Dorman, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, E. Tetteh-Lartey, D. J. Boehnlein, D. Cherdack, A. E. Kreymer, G. F. Pearce, Maury Goodman, J. A. Nowak, J. K. De Jong, M. Bishai, R. A. Gomes, C. Rosenfeld, X. Qiu, P. Lucas, J. Ratchford, C. D. Moore, W. H. Miller, L. Loiacono, H. R. Gallagher, Marvin L Marshak, C. Backhouse, M. Orchanian, S. Phan-Budd, A. Sousa, R. L. Talaga, J. K. Nelson, G. J. Bock, K. Grzelak, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. Urheim, A. C. Weber, D. A. Harris, P. A. Rodrigues, S. M. S. Kasahara, G. Tinti, J. J. Walding, N. E. Devenish, G. Lefeuvre, S. Childress, D. A. Jensen, Gregory J Pawloski, A. Holin, L. Corwin, P. J. Litchfield, Jorge G. Morfin, N. Mayer, N. Grant, S. L. Mufson, J. A. Musser, C. James, Harvey B Newman, T. Kafka, D. Bogert, G. Tzanakos, T. C. Nicholls, R. Hatcher, R. C. Webb, G. Koizumi, J. Schneps, I. Z. Danko, H. A. Rubin, R. Mehdiyev, W. P. Oliver, D. Torretta, J. Hartnell, P. Gouffon, B. Viren, J. Ilic, S. J. Coleman, J. M. Paley, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, M. C. Sanchez, David Petyt, Juergen Thomas, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, R. J. Nichol, Alec Habig, John C. Mitchell, D. E. Jaffe, J. Hylen, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, L. Mualem, P. Shanahan, and Karol Lang
Subjects: Physics, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), MINOS, Measurements of neutrino speed, Muon neutrino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Lepton
Abstract: Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of $7.07\times10^{20}$ protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of $754\pm28\rm{(stat.)}\pm{37}\rm{(syst.)}$ for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction $f_s$ of disappearing \numu that may transition to $\nu_s$ is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L., Comment: 5 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures. Published in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2016

8. THE OBSERVATION OF UNDERGROUND MUONS FROM THE DIRECTION OF CYGNUS-X-3 DURING THE JANUARY 1991 RADIO FLARE

Author: N. West, D. S. Ayres, M. Lowe, R. H. Giles, J. Kochocki, L.M. Kirby-Gallagher, B. Saitta, S. J. Werkema, W. P. Oliver, Donald H. Perkins, G.D. Barr, C. A. Woods, L. E. Price, L. Balka, S. Heppelmann, J. H. Hoftiezer, J. Schneps, S. M S Kasahara, David Ja Cockerill, E. A. Peterson, Christian P. Minor, D. Rosen, W. A. Mann, D. J. Jankowski, N. P. Longley, W.W.M. Allison, W. L. Barrett, P. D. Shield, P. J. Litchfield, R. H. Milburn, D. Roback, T. Joyce, A. Napier, B. Ewen, K. Ruddick, G. F. Pearce, J. W. Dawson, V. W. Edwards, Maury Goodman, C.B. Brooks, T. Kafka, M. A. Thomson, N. Hill, J. Schlereth, G. J. Alner, C. Garcia-Garcia, Marvin L Marshak, P. M. Border, D. Benjamin, R. N. Gray, Edward May, T. H. Fields, Jack L. Uretsky, J. L. Thron, J. H. Cobb, N. Sundaralingam, Graham L. Giller, M. Shupe, D. Schmid, I. Ambats, H. Courant, K. Johns, Warner A. Miller, F. V. Lopez, and L. McMaster
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, law, Detector, Astronomy, Nucleon, Flare, law.invention
Abstract: Muons recorded in the Soudan 2 underground nucleon decay detector from January 1989 to February 1991 have been examined for any correlation with the radio flares of Cygnus X-3 observed during this period. On two nearby days during the radio flare of January 1991 a total of 32 muons within 2.0° of the Cygnus X-3 direction were observed when 11.4 were expected.
Published: 2016

9. The MINOS calibration detector

Author: E. Falk Harris, T. C. Nicholls, P. Adamson, Philip Harris, P. Vahle, M. Kordosky, G. F. Pearce, J. Hartnell, D. Michael, David Petyt, Ruben Saakyan, R. J. Nichol, A. C. Weber, P. J. Litchfield, Caleb Smith, L. Jenner, G. Crone, Anatael Cabrera, R. Lee, P. S. Miyagawa, N. Tagg, P. A. Symes, Juergen Thomas, Karol Lang, M. A. Barker, A. Belias, R. Morse, and S. Boyd
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, Hadron, Detector, Electron, Nuclear physics, MINOS, Calibration, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Instrumentation
Abstract: This paper describes the MINOS calibration detector (CalDet) and the procedure used to calibrate it. The CalDet, a scaled-down but functionally equivalent model of the MINOS Far and Near detectors, was exposed to test beams in the CERN PS East Area during 2001-2003 to establish the response of the MINOS calorimeters to hadrons, electrons and muons in the range 0.2-10 GeV/c. The CalDet measurements are used to fix the energy scale and constrain Monte Carlo simulations of MINOS. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Published: 2006
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10. Evidence of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam

Author: Scott Davis, D. Hansen, S. J. Ives, K. Zaremba, C. A. Miller, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, Takahiro Hiraki, K. Huang, Atsushi Takeda, C. W. Walter, R. J. Wilkes, K. P. Lee, M. Day, A. Longhin, M. Barbi, E. Radicioni, J. Marteau, D. Naples, T. Sekiguchi, A. Hillairet, Z. Williamson, S. Manly, C. Wilkinson, D. Sgalaberna, T. Nakai, D. Cherdack, H. Kaji, T. Tomura, D. L. Wark, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, L. Zambelli, C. Yanagisawa, F. Bay, M. Miura, M. Y. Pac, B. A. Popov, K. Abe, R. Sacco, E. Rondio, T. Nicholls, Robert Wilson, C. McGrew, E. L. Mathie, N. McCauley, S. Tobayama, M. Messina, Gareth J. Barker, M. Hierholzer, Y. Petrov, T. Hara, V. Galymov, C. Andreopoulos, M. Mezzetto, R. Ohta, A. Konaka, A. Laing, D. R. Hadley, B. Smith, Michal Dziewiecki, S. B. Boyd, Masashi Tanaka, J. Kameda, Dmitriy Beznosko, E. Reinherz-Aronis, T. J. Irvine, P. Przewlocki, A. P. Furmanski, A. D. Marino, Ken Sakashita, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Henry W. Sobel, S. Horikawa, J. Lagoda, A. Kilinski, E. Scantamburlo, M. Ravonel, S. Dytman, S. M. Oser, Y. Fukuda, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Szeglowski, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, J. P. Coleman, M. Bass, W. Toki, H. Kubo, S. Nakayama, C. Bojechko, Kate Scholberg, Y. Seiya, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, A. Blondel, Lester D.R. Thompson, Alexander Finch, J. D. Perkin, M. Szeptycka, P. A. Rodrigues, I. Z. Danko, A. Jacob, S. J. Coleman, Seiko Hirota, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, Kendall Mahn, M. Gonin, J. Dobson, G. Christodoulou, E. Mazzucato, D. Autiero, L. Escudero, J. Schwehr, Koh Ueno, F. Di Lodovico, G. F. Pearce, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, M. J. Wilking, C. Touramanis, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, M. Hartz, W. Oryszczak, Joshua Hignight, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, Yu. G. Kudenko, S. Y. Suzuki, Masato Shiozawa, Yoshihiro Suzuki, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, K. Iyogi, M. Ikeda, A. C. Kaboth, S. Short, J. P. A. M. de André, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, S. Murphy, Kevin Scott McFarland, Takashi Kobayashi, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, Federico Sanchez, K. Suzuki, C. Hearty, Y. Takeuchi, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, A. Haesler, L. Monfregola, P. Hamilton, A. Murakami, D. Payne, L. Ludovici, Richard J.H. Smith, N. J. Buchanan, M. Lawe, E. D. Zimmerman, Y. Totsuka, M. A.M. Rayner, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, T. Wongjirad, T. Golan, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, M. Nirkko, Yoshinari Hayato, Iain Alexander Bertram, Masayuki Nakahata, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, Y. Uchida, R. P. Litchfield, S. Assylbekov, T. Dealtry, Minoru Otani, A. Missert, T. Duboyski, F. Retiere, S. Bhadra, M. Ieva, K. Kowalik, M. D. Haigh, C. Licciardi, A. Marchionni, K. Nakajima, M. Tada, H.A. Tanaka, P. Mijakowski, M. B. Smy, J. Steinmann, Koji Nakamura, A. N. Khotjantsev, C. K. Jung, P. Jonsson, I. Taylor, S. W. K. Emery, Y. Fujii, M. Vagins, T. Kikawa, D. Brailsford, M. Shibata, D. Ruterbories, R. Tacik, O. Perevozchikov, J. Marzec, A. Himmel, R. Poutissou, S. Di Luise, R. G. Calland, B. Quilain, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, A. Robert, D. Gudin, P. Sinclair, P. Masliah, A. Dabrowska, L. Cremonesi, T. McLachlan, A. Curioni, T. Ishii, T. Maruyama, J. Holeczek, M. Lazos, J. Dumarchez, A. Izmaylov, S. Berkman, T. Nakadaira, M. M. Khabibullin, J. H. Jo, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, Hiroaki Aihara, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, A. K. Ichikawa, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, F. Khanam, M. Dziomba, G.D. Barr, O. Drapier, V. Paolone, Viktor Matveev, S. Roth, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, S. B. Kim, P. de Perio, Th. A. Mueller, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, J. Y. Kim, Matthew T. Reeves, A. Kolaceke, T. Ishida, T. Lindner, Y. Obayashi, M. Friend, C. Densham, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, M. M. Tanaka, H. Kakuno, I. Karpikov, Yukika Nishimura, H. M. O'Keeffe, A. Suzuki, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, B. Still, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Kearns, E. Poplawska, André Rubbia, Yusuke Koshio, M. Murdoch, S. Yen, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, S. Takahashi, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, Y. Yamada, A. Clifton, M. Sorel, R. A. Wendell, S. L. Cartwright, R. A. Johnson, K. Connolly, Vincenzo Berardi, A. Cervera, V. Palladino, D. Terhorst, Tomoko Ariga, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, A. Zalewska, G. Kogan, G. De Rosa, R. A. Owen, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Macaire, G. Vasseur, T. Yuan, Frédéric Dufour, I. T. Lim, Akitaka Ariga, Shigeki Aoki, Oleg Mineev, S. Giffin, L. L. Kormos, M. Ziembicki, J. Kisiel, A. C. Weber, N. Grant, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, J. Insler, M. Zito, I. Kreslo, K. Gilje, T. Tsukamoto, K. Nishikawa, Kimihiro Okumura, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, D. G. Brook-Roberge, K. Koseki, A. Minamino, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, Y. Kanazawa, M. Malek, B. Kirby, R. Terri, K. Nakayoshi, R. L. Helmer, S. Kumaratunga, D. I. Scully, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, Rhiju Das, B. Jamieson, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), T2K, Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, German Research Foundation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, National Research Foundation of Korea, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Abgrall, Nicolas, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Dufour, Fanny, Haesler, Alexis, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, Rayner, Mark, Scantamburlo, Enrico, K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, J. 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J., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E. D., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., ?muda
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Momentum range, Muon neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, T2K experiment, Física, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Absorption cross-sections, Electron neutrino, Beam (structure)
Abstract: The T2K Collaboration reports evidence for electron neutrino appearance at the atmospheric mass splitting, vertical bar Delta m(32)(2)vertical bar approximate to 2.4 X 10(-3) eV(2). An excess of electron neutrino interactions over background is observed from a muon neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV at the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector 295 km from the beam's origin. Signal and background predictions are constrained by data from near detectors located 280 m from the neutrino production target. We observe 11 electron neutrino candidate events at the SK detector when a background of 3.3 +/- 0.4(syst) events is expected. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with a p value of 0.0009 (3.1 sigma), and a fit assuming nu(mu) -> nu(e) oscillations with sin (2)2 theta(23) = 1, delta(CP) = 0 and vertical bar Delta m(32)(2)vertical bar = 2.4 X 10(-3) eV(2) yields sin (2)2 theta(13) = 0.088(-0.039)(+0.049)(stat + syst)., We thank the J-PARC accelerator team for the superb accelerator performance and CERN NA61 colleagues for providing essential particle production data and for their fruitful collaboration. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; RAS, RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; MEST and NRF, South Korea; MICINN and CPAN, Spain; SNSF and SER, Switzerland; STFC, U.K.; NSF and DOE, USA We also thank CERN for their donation of the UA1/NOMAD magnet and DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions in T2K has been further supported by funds from ERC (FP7), EU; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, UK; DOE Early Career program, and the A. P. Sloan Foundation, USA Computations were performed on the supercomputers at the SciNet [115] HPC Consortium. SciNet is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation under the auspices of Compute Canada; the Government of Ontario; Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence; and the University of Toronto.
Published: 2013
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11. Measurement of the Inclusive NuMu Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon in the Near Detector of the T2K Experiment

Author: J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, F. Di Lodovico, T. Maruyama, R. A. Wendell, Vincenzo Berardi, Tomoko Ariga, G. Vasseur, J. H. Jo, J. Lagoda, M. Tada, C. Bojechko, R. J. Wilson, Alexander Finch, C. W. Walter, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, Masashi Tanaka, A. P. Furmanski, V. Paolone, A. Jacob, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, A. K. Ichikawa, L. Monfregola, S. Manly, P. Hamilton, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, M. Mezzetto, K. Ieki, M. Ieva, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, S. Roth, J. Kameda, E. Kearns, D. Karlen, I. Karpikov, R. Tacik, O. Perevozchikov, M. Barbi, S. L. Cartwright, Hiroyuki Sekiya, R. J. Wilkes, T. Szeglowski, F. Bay, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, Y. Fukuda, Kendall Mahn, Akitaka Ariga, Michal Dziewiecki, K. Connolly, Th. A. Mueller, Ko Okumura, Y. Takeuchi, T. Dealtry, M. M. Tanaka, Antonin Vacheret, Masashi Yokoyama, Matthew T. Reeves, E. Poplawska, Minoru Otani, A. Missert, P. Guzowski, D. Ruterbories, C. Wilkinson, André Rubbia, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, M. Tzanov, P. Mijakowski, A. Zalewska, C. J. Metelko, D. Terhorst, D. Payne, D. Sgalaberna, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, Shigeki Aoki, T. Kutter, K. Nakajima, M. Friend, P. Jonsson, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, B. Smith, E. Reinherz-Aronis, A. Clifton, C. Yanagisawa, E. Scantamburlo, M. J. Wilking, H. Kakuno, L. Zambelli, R.P. Kurjata, R. A. Johnson, Anne Robert, S. Giffin, S. W. Bentham, H. M. O'Keeffe, L. L. Kormos, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, I. Z. Danko, M. B. Smy, Kazuhiro Suzuki, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, V. Matveev, T. Akiri, K. S. McFarland, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Steinmann, T. Hasegawa, Gareth J. Barker, M. Hierholzer, D. Naples, P. Sinclair, Yusuke Koshio, A. Hillairet, K. Gilje, C. K. Jung, P. Kitching, T. McLachlan, W. R. Kropp, M. O. Wascko, A. Konaka, S. Tobayama, J. Marzec, S. Emery, W. H. Toki, M. Ikeda, Dmitriy Beznosko, K. Nishikawa, Masato Shiozawa, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, A. Laing, D. R. Hadley, S. J. Coleman, S. Horikawa, Jan T. Sobczyk, J. P. Coleman, C. Touramanis, A. Haesler, F. Sanchez, S. J. Ives, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, S. Bhadra, A. C. Weber, D. Brailsford, R. Poutissou, K. Laihem, P. Masliah, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, P. Stamoulis, A. Dabrowska, Frédéric Dufour, T. Tomura, K. Koseki, E. L. Mathie, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, A. T. Suzuki, J. F. Martin, S. B. Kim, N. Grant, D. G. Brook-Roberge, J. Y. Kim, G. Kogan, S. B. Boyd, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, T. Lindner, G. De Rosa, D. Autiero, T. Nakadaira, Y. Obayashi, C. Densham, R. A. Owen, M. Zito, P. A. Rodrigues, A. Thorley, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Macaire, M. Szeptycka, A. Korzenev, M. Miura, M. Murdoch, S. Nakayama, S. Mine, S. Yen, T. Yuan, I. Kreslo, M. Dziomba, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, K. Kowalik, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, M. Y. Pac, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. R. Vagins, A. Blondel, Iain Alexander Bertram, Rhiju Das, J. Imber, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, B. Jamieson, Yukika Nishimura, A. N. Khotjantsev, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, T. Duboyski, N. J. 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Williamson, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, J. Dobson, H. Kaji, T. Kikawa, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, Joshua Hignight, W. Oryszczak, D. Cherdack, K. Abe, R. Sacco, C. McGrew, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, T. Sekiguchi, L. Ludovici, M. Sorel, Yasunari Suzuki, M. D. Haigh, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, Takahiro Hiraki, M. A.M. Rayner, T. Wongjirad, A. Kilinski, T. Ishii, P. de Perio, Yoshikazu Yamada, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Bass, A. C. Kaboth, A. Cervera, R. Terri, M. Ravonel, M. Lawe, H. W. Sobel, C. Licciardi, G. Christodoulou, K. Nakamura, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, I. Taylor, B. Quilain, S. Assylbekov, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, S. Moriyama, Koji Yamamoto, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, T. J. Irvine, V. Galymov, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), T2K, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (España), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Abgrall, Nicolas, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Dufour, Fanny, Haesler, Alexis, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, Rayner, Mark, Scantamburlo, Enrico, K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, J. 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J., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E. D., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., ?muda
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Higher education, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutrino reactions, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Neutrino scattering, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Early career, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, 4. Education, Nuclear Targets, T2K experiment, Física, Russian federation, Christian ministry, Angular dependence, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business
Abstract: T2K has performed the first measurement of nu(mu) inclusive charged current interactions on carbon at neutrino energies of similar to 1 GeV where the measurement is reported as a flux-averaged double differential cross section in muon momentum and angle. The flux is predicted by the beam Monte Carlo and external data, including the results from the NA61/SHINE experiment. The data used for this measurement were taken in 2010 and 2011, with a total of 10.8 x 10(19) protons-on-target. The analysis is performed on 4485 inclusive charged current interaction candidates selected in the most upstream fine-grained scintillator detector of the near detector. The flux-averaged total cross section is (phi) = (6.91 +/- 0.13(stat) +/- 0.84(syst)) x 10(-39) cm(2)/nucleon for a mean neutrino energy of 0.85 GeV., We thank the J-PARC accelerator team for the superb accelerator performance and CERN NA61 colleagues for providing essential particle production data and for their fruitful collaboration. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; RAS, RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; MEST and NRF, South Korea; MICINN and CPAN, Spain; SNSF and SER, Switzerland; STFC, UK; NSF and DOE, USA. We also thank CERN for their donation of the UA1/NOMAD magnet and DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions in T2K has been further supported by funds from: ERC (FP7), EU; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, UK; DOE Early Career program, and the A. P. Sloan Foundation, USA.
Published: 2013
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12. Spontaneous light emission from fibers in MINOS

Author: S. Avvakumov, B. Rebel, P. Vahle, R. C. Webb, A. Erwin, M. Kordosky, Warner A. Miller, M. Proga, Caleb Smith, J. K. Nelson, G. F. Pearce, C. R. Bower, T. Belias, Juergen Thomas, William L. Barrett, Karol Lang, R. J. Nichol, R. Lee, L. Mualem, Jie Liu, and K. Ruddick
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Scintillator, Electromagnetic radiation, Optics, MINOS, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Light emission, business, Instrumentation, Noise (radio), Dark current
Abstract: We report on the observation and measurements of unexpected background rates in the MINOS Far Detector. The noise level at the Far Detector is significantly greater than that expected from natural radioactivity and intrinsic photomultiplier dark current. We have conducted a series of additional tests which demonstrate that the excess rate is caused by spontaneous light emission in the wavelength-shifting fibers, which are used to read out signals from scintillator strips. This noise due to fibers exhibits an exponential fall off with time with a decay time constant of the order of 100 days.
Published: 2005
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13. Measurements of the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector

Author: J. Marteau, Z. Williamson, P. F. Loverre, M. Iida, T. Ishii, M. M. Khabibullin, H. Kaji, J. Blocki, Andrew Marone, S. Dytman, H. Kubo, J. M. Roney, T. Ishida, J. Bouchez, Thorsten Lux, J. Zmuda, Frédéric Dufour, M. Gonin, G. P. Ward, Y. Kouzuma, L. Escudero, Kenichi Tanaka, Akitaka Ariga, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, M. Messina, I. T. Lim, Shigeki Aoki, S. Giffin, I. Z. Danko, Justin Albert, A. V. Waldron, P. A. Rodrigues, M. Besnier, J. Dobson, A. Minamino, N. Abgrall, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, K. Tashiro, Katsuyu Kasami, S. Tobayama, J. L. Stone, J. J. Walding, V. Galymov, K. Kowalik, J. Myslik, M. Malek, L. L. Kormos, S. Horikawa, Masashi Tanaka, Koji Nakamura, A. N. Khotjantsev, Y. Fujii, Suyong Choi, Alastair Grant, T. Golan, C. Hansen, Y. Totsuka, J. D. Perkin, M. Barbi, G. Mituka, V. Paolone, T. Maryon, K. Iyogi, Yutaka Yamanoi, M. M. Tanaka, W. Metcalf, W. Coleman, T. Wongjirad, F. Di Lodovico, André Rubbia, S. Takahashi, F. Bay, Hiroshi Yamaoka, A. Marchionni, T. Nobuhara, C. A. Chavez, J. Kisiel, T. Kikawa, A. C. Weber, M. J. Wilking, E. D. Zimmerman, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, Robert Henderson, K. Zaremba, Atsushi Takeda, M. Siyad, V. Pettinacci, M. Miura, Barry L. Nelson, Yu. G. Kudenko, T. Ozaki, E. Mazzucato, N. Kimura, L. Monfregola, J. Dumarchez, J. P.A.M. De André, Robert Wilson, K. Suzuki, D. Naples, Y. Takeuchi, Shinya Yamada, A. Robert, J. Steinmann, S. Di Luise, M. Ravonel, K. Nitta, Norio Higashi, K. Gilje, G. F. Pearce, R. A. Johnson, C. Giganti, H. S. Budd, Oleg Mineev, Alexander Finch, N. Grant, A. Izmaylov, A. Curioni, M. Taguchi, C. K. Jung, J. L. Raaf, Michal Dziewiecki, G. Jover-Manas, M. Ziembicki, G. Collazuol, Sy Suzuki, M. Murdoch, Minoru Otani, E. L. Mathie, K. Nishikawa, A. Carver, P. Paul, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, J. A. Nowak, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, C. Ishihara, A. Dabrowska, Takahiro Okamura, J. Argyriades, D. Ruterbories, Mark Scott, Jan T. Sobczyk, P. de Perio, K. Laihem, A.K. 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Delbart, Tatsushi Nakamoto, M. A. George, K. Kaneyuki, Gavin Davies, J. Ilic, L. Ludovici, B. E. Berger, G. Vasseur, S. Murphy, D. Karlen, K. Hamano, T. Tsukamoto, Toru Ogitsu, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, P. Kitching, G. Ganetis, Michael Anerella, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, M. O. Wascko, R. P. Litchfield, E. Kearns, Masato Shiozawa, L. Zambelli, R. J. Wilkes, B. A. Popov, David Calvet, Hiroyuki Kawamuko, S. Koike, F. Retiere, C. Licciardi, S. J. Ives, S. Assylbekov, A. Haesler, C. A. Miller, Takayuki Tomaru, Biagio Rossi, Hiroyuki Sekiya, I. Taylor, T. Szeglowski, Soo-Bong Kim, B. Still, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, B. Kirby, C. Strabel, Kendall Mahn, Kate Scholberg, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, M. Hartz, A. Ferrero, W. Toki, S. Nakayama, P. Mijakowski, A. Sarrat, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, U. Dore, A. Thorley, Henry W. Sobel, T. M. Raufer, M. D. Haigh, A. Gendotti, A. Korzenev, Joseph Muratore, P. Wanderer, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, Yoshinari Hayato, C. 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J., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, S., Yamada, Y., Yamada, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, Y., Yamanoi, H., Yamaoka, T., Yamauchi, C., Yanagisawa, T., Yano, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E. D., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., Zmuda
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutrino oscillation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, on-axis near detector, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutrino oscillation, neutrino detector, wavelength shifting fiber, t2k, extruded scintillator, neutrino beam, Neutrino detector, Nuclear physics, Neutrino beam, 0103 physical sciences, Extruded scintillator, Muon neutrino, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, T2K, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Wavelength shifting fiber, T2K experiment, Física, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Wavelength shiftingfiber, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Beam (structure), Lepton
Abstract: Precise measurement of neutrino beam direction and intensity was achieved based on a new concept with modularized neutrino detectors. INGRID (Interactive Neutrino GRID) is an on-axis near detector for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. INGRID consists of 16 identical modules arranged in horizontal and vertical arrays around the beam center. The module has a sandwich structure of iron target plates and scintillator trackers. INGRID directly monitors the muon neutrino beam profile center and intensity using the number of observed neutrino events in each module. The neutrino beam direction is measured with accuracy better than 0.4 mrad from the measured profile center. The normalized event rate is measured with 4% precision., Comment: 32 pages, 27 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A
Published: 2012
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14. On the linearity of the MINOS light-injection calibration system

Author: R Morse, R. Lee, A. C. Weber, Anatael Cabrera, L Barrett, P. A. Symes, D. Michael, J. Hartnell, P. Vahle, M. Kordosky, E. Falk, R. C. Webb, P. Adamson, Philip Harris, K. Ruddick, A. Belias, R. J. Nichol, Karol Lang, Jie Liu, Juergen Thomas, Randall White, Andrew Blake, C. Howcroft, JK Nelson, P. N. Smith, and G. F. Pearce
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, business.industry, Detector, Linearity, Semiconductor device, Electromagnetic radiation, Spectral response function, law.invention, Optics, MINOS, law, Calibration, business, Instrumentation, Light-emitting diode
Abstract: The MINOS light-injection calibration system has been fully documented in a previous article (Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 492 (2002) 353). Upon commissioning in the MINOS detectors, the system was found to give a non-linear response to variations in the intensity of injected light. The source of this non-linearity has been traced to a small change in the spectrum of the injected light as a function of the current applied to the original blue LEDs, in combination with a rapidly varying spectral response function of the wavelength-shifting fibre used in the detector. Both aspects of the problem have been addressed successfully by use of LEDs with different spectral characteristics, and the system now has a linear response. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Published: 2004
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15. Horizontal muons and a search for AGN neutrinos in Soudan 2

Author: Marvin L Marshak, K. Ruddick, B. Speakman, T. Kafka, David Ja Cockerill, H.J. Trost, G. F. Pearce, Maury Goodman, A. Sousa, G. Villaume, M. C. Sanchez, J. Schneps, P. J. Litchfield, A. Napier, J. L. Thron, W. L. Barrett, J. H. Cobb, David Petyt, G. J. Alner, Warner A. Miller, E. A. Peterson, L. Mualem, R. Gran, Jack L. Uretsky, W. P. Oliver, R. H. Milburn, S. M S Kasahara, H. R. Gallagher, P. M. Border, T. H. Fields, D. M. DeMuth, N. West, D. S. Ayres, W. A. Mann, H. Courant, and T. Joffe-Minor
Subjects: Physics, Energy loss, Particle physics, Active galactic nucleus, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutrino telescope, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the horizontal ($|\cos(\theta_z), Comment: 18 pages 12 figures
Published: 2004
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16. Search for the proton decay mode p→νK in Soudan 2

Author: H.R. Gallagher, S. Wakeley, C.B. Brooks, G. J. Alner, Marvin L Marshak, T. Joffe–Minor, M.H. Schub, A. Napier, G.D. Barr, J. L. Thron, Warner A. Miller, C. Garcia-Garcia, L. Mualem, W.W.M. Allison, C. Bode, M. C. Goodman, N. P. Longley, R. Gran, K. Ruddick, R.J. Cotton, U.M. Wielgosz, G. F. Pearce, W. Leeson, G. Villaume, T. H. Fields, H. Courant, D. Wall, L. E. Price, A. Stassinakis, R. H. Milburn, J.H. Cobb, J. Schneps, W. P. Oliver, E. A. Peterson, D. M. DeMuth, V. Vassiliev, William L. Barrett, P. J. Litchfield, W. A. Mann, R. Seidlein, N. West, D. S. Ayres, P. M. Border, D. A. Petyt, T. Kafka, S. M S Kasahara, and H. Tom
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Proton decay, Analytical chemistry, High resolution
Abstract: We have searched for the proton decay mode p {yields} {nu} K{sup +} using the one-kiloton Soudan 2 high resolution calorimeter. Contained events obtained from a 3.56 kiloton-year fiducial exposure through June 1997 are examined for occurrence of a visible K{sup +} track which decays at rest into {mu}{sup +}{nu} or {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup 0}. We found one candidate event consistent with background, yielding a limit, {tau}/B(p {yields} {nu} K{sup +})>4.3x10{sup 31} years at 90% CL with no background subtraction.
Published: 1998
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17. Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam

Author: Y. Yamada, E. Rondio, N. McCauley, K. Huang, M. Bass, S. L. Cartwright, K. Connolly, J. Kameda, P. Przewlocki, M. J. Wilking, J. Zmuda, L. L. Kormos, D. Brailsford, R. Ohta, André Rubbia, R. Poutissou, S. Takahashi, D. Terhorst, Lester D.R. Thompson, K. Zaremba, F. Sato, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, J. Kisiel, Berardi, R. P. Litchfield, F. Di Lodovico, C. Hearty, A. Izmaylov, J. Steinmann, Atsushi Takeda, A. Kilinski, C. W. Walter, K. Gilje, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, Alexander Finch, A. Clifton, T. Dealtry, A. Missert, A. Redij, S. Assylbekov, A. Longhin, L. Ludovici, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, Yu. G. Kudenko, J. Marteau, P. A. Rodrigues, M. Lawe, R. J. Smith, Z. Williamson, A. Kolaceke, H.A. Tanaka, P. Rojas, K. Nakayoshi, L. Monfregola, Kimihiro Okumura, P. Hamilton, S. Tobayama, Frédéric Dufour, T. Okusawa, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, S. Murphy, C. Licciardi, M. Ikeda, A. C. Kaboth, Y. Fukuda, Y. Totsuka, I. Lamont, D. Autiero, R. A. Johnson, M. Miura, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, F. Retiere, M. A.M. Rayner, T. Wachala, B. Quilain, Dennis, T. Wongjirad, M. Vagins, S. Horikawa, T. Akiri, S. Berkman, A. C. Weber, Robert Wilson, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, K. Mavrokoridis, J. Adam, J. Lagoda, Sy Suzuki, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, M. Murdoch, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Szeglowski, S. Yen, C. Bojechko, R. L. Helmer, Kendall Mahn, S. Kumaratunga, Yusuke Koshio, Galymov, M. Ravonel, Marco Laveder, D. Cherdack, K. Abe, R. Sacco, C. McGrew, Y. Kanazawa, B. Still, Masashi Tanaka, A. P. Furmanski, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, L. Koch, T. Sekiguchi, A. Hillairet, Y. Petrov, Ken Sakashita, C. Andreopoulos, A. Zalewska, K. Nishikawa, G. Christodoulou, D. Naples, T. Hara, A. Jacob, S. Manly, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, C. K. Jung, W. Toki, G. De Rosa, J. Holeczek, S. Nakayama, K. E. Duffy, Iain Alexander Bertram, S. W. K. Emery, K. Koseki, K. Iyogi, R. A. Owen, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, M. Ieva, Jan T. Sobczyk, C. J. Metelko, S. 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Nakai, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, T2K, K., Abe, J., Adam, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, C., Andreopoulo, S., Aoki, A., Ariga, T., Ariga, S., Assylbekov, D., Autiero, M., Barbi, G., Barker, G., Barr, M., Ba, M., Batkiewicz, F., Bay, S., Bentham, V., Berardi, B., Berger, S., Berkman, I., Bertram, S., Bhadra, F., Blaszczyk, A., Blondel, C., Bojechko, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, D., Brailsford, A., Bravar, C., Bronner, N., Buchanan, R., Calland, J. C., Rodr??????guez, S., Cartwright, R., Castillo, M., Catanesi, A., Cervera, D., Cherdack, G., Christodoulou, A., Clifton, J., Coleman, S., Coleman, G., Collazuol, K., Connolly, L., Cremonesi, A., Dabrowska, I., Danko, R., Da, S., Davi, P. D., Perio, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, T., Dealtry, S., Denni, C., Densham, F. D., Lodovico, S. D., Luise, O., Drapier, T., Duboyski, K., Duffy, F., Dufour, J., Dumarchez, S., Dytman, M., Dziewiecki, S., Emery, A., Ereditato, L., Escudero, A., Finch, L., Floetotto, M., Friend, Y., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, A., Furmanski, V., Galymov, A., Gaudin, S., Giffin, C., Giganti, K., Gilje, D., Goeldi, T., Golan, J., Gomez Cadena, M., Gonin, N., Grant, D., Gudin, D., Hadley, A., Haesler, M., Haigh, P., Hamilton, D., Hansen, T., Hara, M., Hartz, T., Hasegawa, N., Hasting, Y., Hayato, C., Hearty, R., Helmer, M., Hierholzer, J., Hignight, A., Hillairet, A., Himmel, T., Hiraki, S., Hirota, J., Holeczek, S., Horikawa, K., Huang, A., Ichikawa, K., Ieki, M., Ieva, M., Ikeda, J., Imber, J., Insler, T., Irvine, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, S., Ive, K., Iyogi, A., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, B., Jamieson, R., Johnson, J., Jo, P., Jonsson, C., Jung, A., Kaboth, T., Kajita, H., Kakuno, J., Kameda, Y., Kanazawa, D., Karlen, I., Karpikov, E., Kearn, M., Khabibullin, A., Khotjantsev, D., Kielczewska, T., Kikawa, A., Kilinski, J., Kim, J., Kisiel, P., Kitching, T., Kobayashi, L., Koch, A., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, L., Kormo, A., Korzenev, K., Koseki, Y., Koshio, I., Kreslo, W., Kropp, H., Kubo, Y., Kudenko, S., Kumaratunga, R., Kurjata, T., Kutter, J., Lagoda, K., Laihem, I., Lamont, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazo, K., Lee, C., Licciardi, T., Lindner, C., Lister, R., Litchfield, A., Longhin, L., Ludovici, M., Macaire, L., Magaletti, K., Mahn, M., Malek, S., Manly, A., Marino, J., Marteau, J., Martin, T., Maruyama, J., Marzec, E., Mathie, V., Matveev, K., Mavrokoridi, E., Mazzucato, M., Mccarthy, N., Mccauley, K., Mcfarland, C., Mcgrew, C., Metelko, M., Mezzetto, P., Mijakowski, C., Miller, A., Minamino, O., Mineev, S., Mine, A., Missert, M., Miura, L., Monfregola, S., Moriyama, T., Mueller, A., Murakami, M., Murdoch, S., Murphy, J., Myslik, T., Nagasaki, T., Nakadaira, M., Nakahata, T., Nakai, K., Nakamura, S., Nakayama, T., Nakaya, K., Nakayoshi, D., Naple, C., Nielsen, M., Nirkko, K., Nishikawa, Y., Nishimura, H., O'Keeffe, R., Ohta, K., Okumura, T., Okusawa, W., Oryszczak, S., Oser, R., Owen, Y., Oyama, Palladino, Vittorio, V., Paolone, D., Payne, G., Pearce, O., Perevozchikov, J., Perkin, Y., Petrov, L., Pickard, E. P., Guerra, C., Pistillo, P., Plonski, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala, J., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, B., Quilain, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, M., Ravonel, M., Rayner, A., Redij, M., Reeve, E., Reinherz Aroni, F., Retiere, A., Robert, P., Rodrigue, P., Roja, E., Rondio, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., S??????nchez, F., Sato, E., Scantamburlo, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, D., Sgalaberna, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, Y., Shustrov, P., Sinclair, B., Smith, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, L., Southwell, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, Y., Suda, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, R., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takeuchi, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, S., Tobayama, W., Toki, T., Tomura, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, A., Waldron, C., Walter, D., Wark, M., Wascko, A., Weber, R., Wendell, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, C., Wilkinson, Z., Williamson, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, Muda, J. ?. ?. ?., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Subjects: General Physics, Particle physics, Solar neutrino, Physics, Multidisciplinary, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, 7. Clean energy, 09 Engineering, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Tau neutrino, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Neutrino oscillation, 01 Mathematical Sciences, Physics, Science & Technology, 02 Physical Sciences, hep-ex, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, Física, Solar neutrino problem, Neutrino detector, T2K Collaboration, Physical Sciences, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: The T2K experiment has observed electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam produced 295 km from the Super-Kamiokande detector with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV. A total of 28 electron neutrino events were detected with an energy distribution consistent with an appearance signal, corresponding to a significance of 7.3$\sigma$ when compared to 4.92 $\pm$ 0.55 expected background events. In the PMNS mixing model, the electron neutrino appearance signal depends on several parameters including three mixing angles $\theta_{12}$, $\theta_{23}$, $\theta_{13}$, a mass difference $\Delta m^2_{32}$ and a CP violating phase $\delta_{\mathrm{CP}}$. In this neutrino oscillation scenario, assuming $|\Delta m^2_{32}| = 2.4 \times 10^{-3}$ $\rm eV^2$, $\sin^2 \theta_{23} = 0.5$, and $\Delta m^2_{32} >0$ ($\Delta m^2_{32}, Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2014
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18. Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation gamma rays

Author: J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, R. Poutissou, J. Holeczek, K. Nakayoshi, N. Buchanan, A. C. Weber, R. L. Helmer, M. Yu, S. Kumaratunga, A. Redij, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, Yukika Nishimura, J. Zmuda, S. J. Coleman, T. J. Irvine, M. Posiadala-Zezula, N. Grant, C. Touramanis, Antonio Ereditato, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, T. Sekiguchi, L. Ludovici, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, N. Yershov, T. Golan, K. Suzuki, Y. Takeuchi, M. Sorel, André Rubbia, T. Ovsyannikova, S. Murphy, A. K. Ichikawa, S. Roth, J. Kameda, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, Th. A. Mueller, Matthew T. Reeves, P. Mijakowski, H. M. O'Keeffe, F. Di Lodovico, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, T. Maruyama, Yuki Fujii, Takaaki Kajita, Y. Shustrov, M. Ieva, C. Yanagisawa, M. M. Khabibullin, K. Zaremba, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, J. H. Jo, C. Nantais, G.D. Barr, F. Retiere, T. Nakai, M. Tada, Yu. G. Kudenko, L. Monfregola, S. Manly, P. Hamilton, B. A. Popov, C. A. Miller, O. Drapier, M. McCarthy, M. D. Haigh, I. Lamont, K. Iwamoto, A. Clifton, A. Minamino, A. T. Suzuki, A. Zalewska, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, F. Sato, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, J. Dumarchez, J. Schwehr, Takahiro Hiraki, I. Karpikov, Gareth J. Barker, M. Hierholzer, K. Huang, Atsushi Takeda, R. P. Litchfield, E. Rondio, N. McCauley, Hiroaki Aihara, M. Ravonel, P. Stamoulis, J. A. Nowak, E. Iwai, J. F. Martin, Kate Scholberg, T. Akiri, S. Assylbekov, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, D. Autiero, T. Nakadaira, R. A. Johnson, Joshua Hignight, Anne Robert, Yoshihiro Suzuki, A. Konaka, Koji Yamamoto, T. Tsukamoto, P. Przewlocki, C. Pistillo, T. Hasegawa, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, M. Hartz, B. Smith, E. Reinherz-Aronis, H. K. Tanaka, D. Payne, J. Adam, M. Friend, Teppei Katori, Yusuke Koshio, Lester D.R. Thompson, R. A. Wendell, C. W. Walter, S. Martynenko, E. Scantamburlo, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, A. Himmel, Y. Totsuka, J. Lagoda, T. Ishida, G. Christodoulou, Susumu Takahashi, M. A.M. Rayner, Leïla Haegel, C. Bojechko, Richard J.H. Smith, A. Kolaceke, M. R. Vagins, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, P. Rojas, R. Terri, M. Barbi, V. Galymov, M. Mezzetto, S. Berkman, M. Zito, Hidekazu Kakuno, R. J. Wilson, S. Mine, Vincenzo Berardi, J. P. Coleman, I. Kreslo, S. J. Ives, R. Ohta, S. R. Johnson, D. Ruterbories, T. Wongjirad, D. Cherdack, M. Malek, I. Z. Danko, R. G. Calland, D. Gudin, G. De Rosa, M. B. Smy, K. Abe, R. Sacco, M. Lazos, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, F. Shaker, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, Y. Petrov, K. Sakashita, A. Murakami, Jan Kisiel, R. A. Owen, S. Moriyama, F. Bay, J. Marzec, Hidetoshi Kubo, A. N. Khotjantsev, D. Goeldi, S. Bordoni, T. Tomura, D. Naples, S. M. Oser, A. Hillairet, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, C. McGrew, Tomoko Ariga, L. Koch, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, T. Kobayashi, S. Di Luise, L. Cremonesi, M. Macaire, J. L. Palomino, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Rhiju Das, E. Mazzucato, Antonin Vacheret, C. Hearty, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, T. Szeglowski, B. Jamieson, E. L. Mathie, Masayuki Nakahata, M. Lawe, Y. Seiya, Y. Uchida, G. F. Pearce, P. de Perio, R. Tacik, O. Perevozchikov, Yoshikazu Yamada, Artur F. Izmaylov, M. Miura, K. P. Lee, Y. Fukuda, M. Tzanov, M. Ziembicki, C. J. Metelko, H. W. Sobel, T. Ishii, K. Ieki, J. Zalipska, J. Insler, Kendall Mahn, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, S. B. Boyd, Z. Williamson, Michal Dziewiecki, Yusuke Suda, C. Licciardi, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, T. Yuan, K. E. Duffy, Iain Alexander Bertram, I. Taylor, C. K. Jung, D. Dewhurst, G. Vasseur, M. G. Catanesi, A. Cervera, V. Palladino, M. Kabirnezhad, J. Imber, B. Quilain, B. Still, Masato Shiozawa, C. Wilkinson, Marco Laveder, A. Haesler, D. Sgalaberna, S. Bhadra, S. L. Cartwright, K. Connolly, Seiko Hirota, T. Kikawa, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, Stefan Schoppmann, A. Kilinski, Akitaka Ariga, Y. Kanazawa, Ko Okumura, W. Oryszczak, P. A. Rodrigues, D. Terhorst, E. Kearns, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Ikeda, T. Duboyski, M. Bass, A. C. Kaboth, A. Mefodiev, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Shigeki Aoki, L. Pickard, S. Giffin, C. Lister, V. Matveev, A. Blondel, K. Nishikawa, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, Masashi Tanaka, A. P. Furmanski, K. Koseki, V. Paolone, A. Jacob, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, E. Radicioni, D. L. Wark, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, T. Hara, A. D. Marino, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, P. Jonsson, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, P. Sinclair, A. Dabrowska, T. Lindner, C. Densham, S. King, W. R. Kropp, S. Tobayama, K. Nakamura, D. R. Hadley, S. Horikawa, T. Wachala, F. Sanchez, E. Larkin, M. J. Wilking, J. Steinmann, W. H. Toki, B. E. Berger, L. Zambelli, Alexander Finch, C. Riccio, T. Dealtry, A. Missert, L. L. Kormos, F. Dufour, K. S. McFarland, K. Gilje, J. D. Perkin, M. Nirkko, M. Murdoch, S. Nakayama, S. Yen, T. Yano, S. Emery-Schrenk, D. Brailsford, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), T2K, K., Abe, J., Adam, H. a., Aihara, T., Akiri, C., Andreopoulo, S., Aoki, A., Ariga, T., Ariga, S., Assylbekov, D., Autiero, M., Barbi, G., Barker, G., Barr, M., Ba, M., Batkiewicz, F., Bay, S., Bentham, V., Berardi, B. w., Berger, S., Berkman, I., Bertram, S., Bhadra, F., Blaszczyk, A., Blondel, C., Bojechko, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, D., Brailsford, A., Bravar, C., Bronner, N., Buchanan, R., Calland, J. C., Rodr??????guez, S., Cartwright, R., Castillo, M., Catanesi, A., Cervera, D., Cherdack, G., Christodoulou, A., Clifton, J., Coleman, S., Coleman, G., Collazuol, K., Connolly, L., Cremonesi, A., Dabrowska, I., Danko, R., Da, S., Davi, P. D., Perio, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, T. a., Dealtry, S. b., Denni, C., Densham, D., Dewhurst, F. D., Lodovico, S. D., Luise, O., Drapier, T., Duboyski, K., Duffy, F., Dufour, J., Dumarchez, S., Dytman, M., Dziewiecki, S., Emery Schrenk, A., Ereditato, L., Escudero, A., Finch, G. F., Aguirre, M., Friend, Y., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, A., Furmanski, V., Galymov, A., Gaudin, S., Giffin, C., Giganti, K., Gilje, D., Goeldi, T., Golan, J., Gomez Cadena, M., Gonin, N., Grant, D., Gudin, D., Hadley, L., Haegel, A., Haesler, M., Haigh, P., Hamilton, D., Hansen, T., Hara, M. a., Hartz, T., Hasegawa, N., Hasting, Y. a., Hayato, C., Hearty, R., Helmer, M., Hierholzer, J., Hignight, A., Hillairet, A., Himmel, T., Hiraki, S., Hirota, J., Holeczek, S., Horikawa, K., Huang, A., Ichikawa, K., Ieki, M., Ieva, M., Ikeda, J., Imber, J., Insler, T., Irvine, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, S., Ive, E., Iwai, K., Iwamoto, K., Iyogi, A. v., Izmaylov, A., Jacob, B., Jamieson, R., Johnson, S., Johnson, J., Jo, P., Jonsson, C., Jung, M., Kabirnezhad, A., Kaboth, T., Kajita, H., Kakuno, J., Kameda, Y., Kanazawa, D. a., Karlen, I., Karpikov, T., Katori, E. w., Kearn, M., Khabibullin, A., Khotjantsev, D., Kielczewska, T., Kikawa, A., Kilinski, J., Kim, S., King, J., Kisiel, P., Kitching, T., Kobayashi, L., Koch, A., Kolaceke, A., Konaka, L., Kormo, A., Korzenev, K., Koseki, Y., Koshio, I., Kreslo, W., Kropp, H., Kubo, Y., Kudenko, S., Kumaratunga, R., Kurjata, T., Kutter, J., Lagoda, K., Laihem, I., Lamont, E., Larkin, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lazo, K., Lee, C., Licciardi, T., Lindner, C., Lister, R., Litchfield, A., Longhin, L., Ludovici, M., Macaire, L., Magaletti, K., Mahn, M., Malek, S., Manly, A., Marino, J., Marteau, J., Martin, S., Martynenko, T., Maruyama, J., Marzec, E., Mathie, V., Matveev, K., Mavrokoridi, E., Mazzucato, M., Mccarthy, N., Mccauley, K., Mcfarland, C., Mcgrew, A., Mefodiev, C., Metelko, M., Mezzetto, P., Mijakowski, C., Miller, A., Minamino, O., Mineev, S., Mine, A., Missert, M., Miura, L., Monfregola, S., Moriyama, T., Mueller, A., Murakami, M., Murdoch, S., Murphy, J., Myslik, T., Nagasaki, T., Nakadaira, M. a., Nakahata, T., Nakai, K. w., Nakamura, S., Nakayama, T. y., Nakaya, K., Nakayoshi, C., Nantai, D., Naple, C., Nielsen, M., Nirkko, K., Nishikawa, Y., Nishimura, J., Nowak, H., O'Keeffe, R., Ohta, K. a., Okumura, T., Okusawa, W., Oryszczak, S., Oser, T., Ovsyannikova, R., Owen, Y., Oyama, Palladino, Vittorio, J., Palomino, V., Paolone, D., Payne, G., Pearce, O., Perevozchikov, J., Perkin, Y., Petrov, L., Pickard, E. P., Guerra, C., Pistillo, P., Plonski, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala Zezula, J., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, B., Quilain, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, M., Ravonel, M., Rayner, A., Redij, M., Reeve, E., Reinherz Aroni, Riccio, Ciro, F., Retiere, A., Robert, P., Rodrigue, P., Roja, E., Rondio, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., S??????nchez, F., Sato, E., Scantamburlo, K., Scholberg, S., Schoppmann, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H. a., Sekiya, D., Sgalaberna, F., Shaker, M. a., Shiozawa, S., Short, Y., Shustrov, P., Sinclair, B., Smith, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H. w., Sobel, M., Sorel, L., Southwell, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, Y., Suda, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, R. a., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y. x., Takeuchi, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, I., Taylor, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, S., Tobayama, W., Toki, T., Tomura, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M. w., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, A., Waldron, C., Walter, D. a., Wark, M., Wascko, A. a., Weber, R., Wendell, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, C., Wilkinson, Z., Williamson, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, T., Yano, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, M., Yu, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, J., Zmuda, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cherenkov detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, C-12, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics, Particles & Fields, Nuclear physics, SUPER-KAMIOKANDE DETECTOR, Cross section (physics), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, EXCITATION, ABSORPTION, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], SCATTERING, O-16, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, CALIBRATION, Science & Technology, Neutral current, hep-ex, Gamma ray, T2K experiment, Física, 3. Good health, Physical Sciences, Neutrino, WEAK, Fiducial marker, Beam (structure)
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic (NCQE) cross section. It is obtained by observing nuclear deexcitation $\gamma$-rays which follow neutrino-oxygen interactions at the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector. We use T2K data corresponding to $3.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. By selecting only events during the T2K beam window and with well-reconstructed vertices in the fiducial volume, the large background rate from natural radioactivity is dramatically reduced. We observe 43 events in the $4-30$ MeV reconstructed energy window, compared with an expectation of 51.0, which includes an estimated 16.2 background events. The background is primarily nonquasielastic neutral-current interactions and has only 1.2 events from natural radioactivity. The flux-averaged NCQE cross section we measure is $1.55 \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ with a 68\% confidence interval of $(1.22, 2.20) \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ at a median neutrino energy of 630 MeV, compared with the theoretical prediction of $2.01 \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$., Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2014
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19. Prediction of Soot Emissions in Gas-Turbine Combustors

Author: Joseph Tsogo, G. F. Pearce, A. De Champlain, and Detlef Kretschmer
Subjects: Waste management, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, medicine.disease_cause, Soot, Standard deviation, Reaction rate, Fuel Technology, Space and Planetary Science, Approximation error, Range (aeronautics), medicine, Combustor, Environmental science, Mass fraction, Residence time (statistics)
Abstract: From a large number of experimental data, a formulation was developed for predicting the smoke number (SN) as measured in gas-turbine exhausts according to the well-established Society of Automotive Engineers standard. Three different scales of the same combustor were used with inlet temperature and pressure ranging from 300 to 600 K and from 0.1 to 0.9 MPa, respectively. The formulation is based on the residence time that is calculated from the mass e ow rate, density, and the volumes of the primary and secondary zones of the combustor. The reaction rate has an Arrhenius form with the equivalence ratio to take into consideration the air and fuel e ow rates. All of the required parameters can be evaluated from desired operating conditions. Nineteen different types of fuel were used, varying from a parafe nic mixture to a pure aromatic compound. The fuel is characterized by its calorie c value and the hydrogen mass fraction. With this wide range of fuels burned in the experiments, giving a SN variation from 0 to 100, the accuracy of the prediction (standard deviation of 40% on the relative error to experimental values for each scale and 60% when all scales are combined ) is acceptable for most purposes. Measured SN values already have a 20% error because of the commonly accepted variability of the technique. The formulation should be particularly useful in assessing the efe ciency of new systems for smoke reduction or in calculating the SN from older experimental data where it was not measured.
Published: 1997
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20. The SOUDAN 2 detector The design and construction of the tracking calorimeter modules

Author: W. Leeson, D. Rosen, J. Schneps, P. J. Litchfield, D. Roback, T. Joyce, Christian P. Minor, J. H. Hoftiezer, B. Saitta, L. Mualem, P.D. Shield, S. Heppelmann, C. Garcia-Garcia, P. M. Border, R.J. Cotton, G. Villaume, T. H. Fields, G. F. Pearce, Maury Goodman, V. W. Edwards, U. DasGupta, D. M. DeMuth, V. Vassiliev, M. Shupe, D. Schmid, M. A. Thomson, David Ja Cockerill, R. Nickson, W. L. Barrett, I. Ambats, S. P. Wakely, R. H. Milburn, R. H. Giles, Graham L. Giller, N. Hill, C.B. Brooks, J. Kochocki, Edward May, L. E. Price, H. Courant, R. Seidlein, W. A. Mann, N. Mondal, H.M. Gallagher, A. Napier, N. P. Longley, S. Yarker, D. Wall, C. A. Woods, J. Schlereth, L. Balka, N. West, W.W.M. Allison, C. Bode, D. S. Ayres, U.M. Wielgosz, L.M. Kirby-Gallagher, S. J. Werkema, K. Coover, D. Maxam, M.H. Schub, J. W. Dawson, A. Stassinakis, T. Kafka, E. A. Peterson, S. Spear, E.M. Nelson, B. Dahlin, D. Benjamin, R. N. Gray, B. Ewen, G. J. Alner, Marvin L Marshak, K. Johns, M. Lowe, K. Ruddick, Donald H. Perkins, L. McMaster, Warner A. Miller, D. J. Jankowski, G.D. Barr, E.W.G. Wallis, F. V. Lopez, L. Weems, J. H. Cobb, N. Sundaralingam, W. P. Oliver, S. M S Kasahara, and J. L. Thron
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Tracking (particle physics), Nucleon, Instrumentation, Charged particle
Abstract: SOUDAN 2 is a 960-ton tracking calorimeter which has been constructed to search for nucleon decay and other phenomena. The full detector consists of 224 calorimeter modules each weighing 4.3 tons. The design and construction of the modules are described. The modules consist of finely segmented iron instrumented with 1 m long drift tubes of 15 mm internal diameter. The tubes enable three spatial coordinates and dE/dx to be recorded for charged particles traversing the tubes.
Published: 1996
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21. Publisher’s Note: T2K neutrino flux prediction [Phys. Rev. D87, 012001 (2013)]

Author: C. Bojechko, R. J. Wilson, R. Ohta, D. Ruterbories, M. Ieva, A. Himmel, R. Tacik, R. G. Calland, D. Gudin, C. Hearty, V. Galymov, A. Konaka, S. Short, W. H. Toki, A. K. Ichikawa, J. P. A. M. de André, P. Plonski, S. Roth, J. Kameda, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, Th. A. Mueller, Matthew T. Reeves, P. Mijakowski, T. Sekiguchi, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, D. Naples, P. Guzowski, K. Nishikawa, A. Hillairet, H. M. O'Keeffe, Kazuhiro Suzuki, C. W. Walter, E. Kearns, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, M. Dziomba, H. Kakuno, L. Zambelli, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, M. Ziembicki, J. Insler, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, K. Sakashita, S. M. Oser, M. Sorel, A. T. Suzuki, T. Tomura, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, Artur F. Izmaylov, M. Zito, K. Koseki, S. Mine, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, M. Murdoch, Y. Kanazawa, J. D. Perkin, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, J. F. Martin, D. Autiero, S. Nakayama, R. A. Wendell, S. Yen, P. de Perio, T. Yano, Yoshikazu Yamada, B. Kirby, M. M. Tanaka, T. Nakadaira, S. Emery, F. Di Lodovico, M. Tada, I. Kreslo, D. J. Payne, K. Kowalik, Richard J.H. Smith, Koji Nakamura, André Rubbia, M. D. Haigh, Vincenzo Berardi, Tomoko Ariga, A. N. Khotjantsev, Akitaka Ariga, Ko Okumura, M. Y. Pac, Y. Seiya, E. L. Mathie, Yu. G. Kudenko, N. C. Hastings, Jan Kisiel, L. Monfregola, S. Manly, A. Cervera, Shigeki Aoki, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, M. Ravonel, F. Bay, A. Clifton, S. Kumaratunga, T. Szeglowski, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Giffin, Y. Fukuda, G. Vasseur, Ian Taylor, D. Cherdack, K. Nakajima, A. J. Finch, Kendall Mahn, P. Jonsson, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, S. B. Boyd, M. M. Khabibullin, R. Sacco, Ke. Abe, E.D. Frank, R. A. Johnson, V. Matveev, T. Tsukamoto, G. Christodoulou, C. McGrew, M. J. Wilking, T. Ishida, O. Perevozchikov, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, P. Sinclair, B. Still, S. Moriyama, T. McLachlan, S. Murphy, T. Nakai, K. Mavrokoridis, D. R. Hadley, Masayuki Nakahata, B. Rossi, Masashi Tanaka, Jing Wang, E. Reinherz-Aronis, V. Paolone, Y. Uchida, M. Szeptycka, F. Retiere, V. Palladino, K. P. Lee, M. Day, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, C. Yanagisawa, Z. Williamson, E. Rondio, Michal Dziewiecki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, E. Scantamburlo, K. Iyogi, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, Y. Takeuchi, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, N. McCauley, T. Kajita, Minoru Otani, T. Kikawa, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, M. Lawe, E. D. Zimmerman, I. Z. Danko, T. Golan, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, W. Oryszczak, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, B. A. Popov, A. Curioni, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, R. Terri, T. Kutter, K. Huang, C. Licciardi, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, M. Friend, Yuki Fujii, Magdalena Malek, S. Di Luise, S. Assylbekov, B. Quilain, P. Stamoulis, E. Radicioni, S. J. Coleman, Marco Laveder, D. L. Wark, Kate Scholberg, P. Przewlocki, J. Steinmann, C. Touramanis, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, T. Hara, A. D. Marino, A. Blondel, J. Dumarchez, A. C. Weber, C. Nielsen, G. Kogan, Takashi Kobayashi, M. Barbi, J. Schwehr, G. De Rosa, M. Messina, Y. Nishimura, H. Kaji, Lester D.R. Thompson, R. A. Owen, C. A. Miller, A. Minamino, N. Grant, M. R. Vagins, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, Scott Davis, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Macaire, D. Hansen, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, M. Miura, S. J. Ives, T. Yuan, Jung-Hyun Kim, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, A. Zalewska, Federico Sanchez, A. Murakami, A. Bravar, C. Matsumura, I. T. Lim, J. Dobson, S. L. Cartwright, K. Connolly, Joshua Hignight, D. Terhorst, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, T. Wongjirad, T. Maruyama, M. Bass, J. H. Jo, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, I. Karpikov, T. Ishii, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, A. Dabrowska, M. Hartz, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, T. Lindner, Y. Obayashi, Janusz Marzec, M. A. M. Rayner, P. A. Rodrigues, T. Duboyski, Gareth J. Barker, Takahiro Hiraki, Dmitriy Beznosko, W. R. Kropp, James R. Wilson, S. Tobayama, J. P. Coleman, A. Laing, Kodai Matsuoka, G. Jover-Manas, S. Horikawa, T. Dealtry, A. Missert, J. Holeczek, K. Nakayoshi, N. Buchanan, R. L. Helmer, D. I. Scully, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, Rhiju Das, B. Jamieson, C. J. Densham, K. Zaremba, D. G. Brook-Roberge, Atsushi Takeda, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, T. Nicholls, B. C. Smith, Yusuke Koshio, M. Mezzetto, L. L. Kormos, C. Wilkinson, F. Dufour, Antonin Vacheret, K. S. McFarland, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, R. Poutissou, P. Masliah, K. Gilje, A. Marchionni, S. B. Kim, J. Y. Kim, R. Sulej, Iain Alexander Bertram, J. Imber, M. Shibata, A. Hyndman, S. Berkman, C. K. Jung, M. Ikeda, Masato Shiozawa, L. Ludovici, A. Kilinski, A. Haesler, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, S. Y. Suzuki, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, and J. Lagoda
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Monte Carlo method, Flux, Neutrino, Solar neutrino problem, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published: 2013
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22. T2K neutrino flux prediction

Author: Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, R. Ohta, A. Suzuki, S. Tobayama, T. Ishii, M. M. Khabibullin, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, S. Dytman, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, A. Laing, D. R. Hadley, V. Galymov, L. Ludovici, W. Toki, J. D. Perkin, S. Nakayama, S. W. K. Emery, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, M. D. Haigh, H. Kubo, C. W. Walter, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, W. Oryszczak, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, M. Messina, S. M. Oser, S. Horikawa, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, A. Zalewska, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, G. Kogan, E. Radicioni, S. Short, J. P. A. M. de André, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, J. Lagoda, E. Mazzucato, T. Ishida, G. F. Pearce, M. Bass, M. Lawe, Y. Seiya, J. Schwehr, G. De Rosa, Ken Sakashita, R. A. Owen, S. J. Ives, Kimihiro Okumura, D. G. Brook-Roberge, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, P. A. Rodrigues, C. A. Miller, D. L. Wark, R. Castillo, M. Macaire, Masato Shiozawa, M. Y. Pac, Yuichi Oyama, J. Dobson, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, J. Marzec, C. Licciardi, S. Murphy, C. Bojechko, R. P. Litchfield, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, Alexander Finch, M. Mezzetto, F. Di Lodovico, T. Yuan, C. K. Jung, A. Haesler, S. Assylbekov, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, Y. Totsuka, M. A.M. Rayner, M. Day, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, Z. Williamson, C. Hearty, Hiroyuki Sekiya, D. Cherdack, K. Abe, R. Sacco, C. McGrew, C. Andreopoulos, T. Szeglowski, M. Murdoch, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, I. Taylor, A. Dabrowska, T. Tomura, Akitaka Ariga, E. L. Mathie, Yu. G. Kudenko, J. F. Martin, G. Jover-Manas, M. Tzanov, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, T. Dealtry, H.A. Tanaka, Iain Alexander Bertram, S. Yen, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, T. Yano, T. Wongjirad, A. Murakami, H. Kaji, A. D. Marino, S. J. Coleman, B. Quilain, F. Retiere, L. Monfregola, Takahiro Hiraki, A. Marchionni, A. Missert, P. Guzowski, P. Mijakowski, K. Koseki, C. J. Metelko, E. Frank, A. Bravar, K. Zaremba, Kendall Mahn, M. Sorel, Marco Laveder, C. Touramanis, M. B. Smy, S. B. Boyd, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, Shigeki Aoki, T. Lindner, A. Himmel, K. Huang, Atsushi Takeda, P. de Perio, M. Ieva, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, R. Poutissou, T. Nakai, M. Shibata, P. Masliah, Jing Wang, L. L. Kormos, E. Rondio, N. McCauley, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, Kevin Scott McFarland, R. A. Wendell, Takashi Kobayashi, S. Giffin, Vincenzo Berardi, R. G. Calland, D. Gudin, B. Rossi, S. Di Luise, D. Naples, K. Nakajima, M. Tada, Yukika Nishimura, A. Hyndman, T. Maruyama, Y. Obayashi, C. Densham, T. Nakadaira, P. Jonsson, K. Suzuki, A. C. Weber, Y. Takeuchi, R. Tacik, O. Perevozchikov, M. Ravonel, J. Kisiel, A. K. Ichikawa, A. Curioni, J. Kameda, J. H. Jo, K. Kowalik, M. Szeptycka, Tomoko Ariga, A. Izmaylov, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, M. J. Wilking, S. Roth, V. Paolone, S. Berkman, L. Southwell, M. Miura, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, T. Nicholls, P. Przewlocki, P. Sinclair, J. Myslik, K. Gilje, A. Cervera, S. Manly, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, T. Sekiguchi, A. Hillairet, Kodai Matsuoka, G. Christodoulou, R. Terri, G. Vasseur, Th. A. Mueller, Matthew T. Reeves, S. B. Kim, Lester D.R. Thompson, Viktor Matveev, V. Palladino, T. McLachlan, J. Y. Kim, A. Blondel, M. M. Tanaka, K. P. Lee, Koji Nakamura, A. N. Khotjantsev, Y. Fujii, T. Golan, Minoru Otani, D. Ruterbories, R. J. Smith, M. Vagins, R. Sulej, H. Kakuno, Y. Yamada, J. Steinmann, A. Minamino, H. M. O'Keeffe, I. Karpikov, André Rubbia, A. Kilinski, Yoshinari Hayato, J. Holeczek, S. L. Cartwright, K. Connolly, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, M. Dziomba, P. Kitching, B. Smith, E. Reinherz-Aronis, S. Takahashi, T. Kikawa, M. O. Wascko, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, E. Kearns, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, N. J. Buchanan, Rhiju Das, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, E. Scantamburlo, J. Dumarchez, M. Malek, R.P. Kurjata, A. Clifton, S. W. Bentham, D. Terhorst, T. Duboyski, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, B. Jamieson, K. Nakayoshi, Masayuki Nakahata, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, Y. Uchida, I. Z. Danko, Yusuke Koshio, M. Ikeda, B. Still, Henry W. Sobel, R. L. Helmer, S. Kumaratunga, T. Kutter, Masashi Tanaka, M. Friend, R. A. Johnson, K. Nishikawa, D. I. Scully, K. Iyogi, N. Grant, Jan T. Sobczyk, E. D. Zimmerman, K. Mavrokoridis, K. Ieki, K. Laihem, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, C. Wilkinson, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, C. Yanagisawa, Gareth J. Barker, Dmitriy Beznosko, J. P. Coleman, Y. Kanazawa, K. Ueno, M. Zito, B. Kirby, I. Kreslo, T. Tsukamoto, Oleg Mineev, B. A. Popov, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, Kate Scholberg, Federico Sanchez, M. Ziembicki, C. Matsumura, D. Payne, M. Barbi, M. Hartz, J. Insler, F. Bay, Michal Dziewiecki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Frédéric Dufour, I. T. Lim, Robert Wilson, T. Hara, A. Konaka, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, L. Zambelli, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (España), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Abgrall, Nicolas, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Dufour, Fanny, Haesler, Alexis, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, Rayner, Mark, Scantamburlo, Enrico, Wikstrom, Gustav, K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, J., Albert, C., Andreopoulo, S., Aoki, A., Ariga, T., Ariga, S., Assylbekov, D., Autiero, M., Barbi, G., Barker, G., Barr, M., Ba, M., Batkiewicz, F., Bay, S., Bentham, V., Berardi, B., Berger, S., Berkman, I., Bertram, D., Beznosko, S., Bhadra, F., Blaszczyk, A., Blondel, C., Bojechko, S., Boyd, A., Bravar, C., Bronner, D., Brook Roberge, N., Buchanan, R., Calland, J. C., Rodríguez, S., Cartwright, R., Castillo, M., Catanesi, A., Cervera, D., Cherdack, G., Christodoulou, A., Clifton, J., Coleman, S., Coleman, G., Collazuol, K., Connolly, A., Curioni, A., Dabrowska, I., Danko, R., Da, S., Davi, M., Day, J. D., André, P. D., Perio, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, T., Dealtry, C., Densham, F. D., Lodovico, S. D., Luise, J., Dobson, T., Duboyski, F., Dufour, J., Dumarchez, S., Dytman, M., Dziewiecki, M., Dziomba, S., Emery, A., Ereditato, L., Escudero, L., Esposito, A., Finch, E., Frank, M., Friend, Y., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, V., Galymov, A., Gaudin, S., Giffin, C., Giganti, K., Gilje, T., Golan, J., Gomez Cadena, M., Gonin, N., Grant, D., Gudin, P., Guzowski, D., Hadley, A., Haesler, M., Haigh, D., Hansen, T., Hara, M., Hartz, T., Hasegawa, N., Hasting, Y., Hayato, C., Hearty, R., Helmer, J., Hignight, A., Hillairet, A., Himmel, T., Hiraki, J., Holeczek, S., Horikawa, K., Huang, A., Hyndman, A., Ichikawa, K., Ieki, M., Ieva, M., Ikeda, J., Imber, J., Insler, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, S., Ive, K., Iyogi, A., Izmaylov, B., Jamieson, R., Johnson, J., Jo, P., Jonsson, K., Joo, G., Jover Mana, C., Jung, H., Kaji, T., Kajita, H., Kakuno, J., Kameda, Y., Kanazawa, D., Karlen, I., Karpikov, E., Kearn, M., Khabibullin, F., Khanam, A., Khotjantsev, D., Kielczewska, T., Kikawa, A., Kilinski, J., Kim, S., Kim, B., Kirby, J., Kisiel, P., Kitching, T., Kobayashi, G., Kogan, A., Konaka, L., Kormo, A., Korzenev, K., Koseki, Y., Koshio, K., Kowalik, I., Kreslo, W., Kropp, H., Kubo, Y., Kudenko, S., Kumaratunga, R., Kurjata, T., Kutter, J., Lagoda, K., Laihem, A., Laing, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, K., Lee, C., Licciardi, I., Lim, T., Lindner, C., Lister, R., Litchfield, A., Longhin, G., Lopez, L., Ludovici, M., Macaire, L., Magaletti, K., Mahn, M., Malek, S., Manly, A., Marchionni, A., Marino, J., Marteau, J., Martin, T., Maruyama, J., Marzec, P., Masliah, E., Mathie, C., Matsumura, K., Matsuoka, V., Matveev, K., Mavrokoridi, E., Mazzucato, N., Mccauley, K., Mcfarland, C., Mcgrew, T., Mclachlan, M., Messina, C., Metelko, M., Mezzetto, P., Mijakowski, C., Miller, A., Minamino, O., Mineev, S., Mine, A., Missert, M., Miura, L., Monfregola, S., Moriyama, T., Mueller, A., Murakami, M., Murdoch, S., Murphy, J., Myslik, T., Nagasaki, T., Nakadaira, M., Nakahata, T., Nakai, K., Nakajima, K., Nakamura, S., Nakayama, T., Nakaya, K., Nakayoshi, D., Naple, T., Nicholl, C., Nielsen, K., Nishikawa, Y., Nishimura, H., O'Keeffe, Y., Obayashi, R., Ohta, K., Okumura, W., Oryszczak, S., Oser, M., Otani, R., Owen, Y., Oyama, M., Pac, Palladino, Vittorio, V., Paolone, D., Payne, G., Pearce, O., Perevozchikov, J., Perkin, E. P., Guerra, P., Plonski, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala, J., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, B., Quilain, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, M., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Reeve, E., Reinherz Aroni, F., Retiere, P., Rodrigue, E., Rondio, B., Rossi, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., Sánchez, E., Scantamburlo, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, D., Scully, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, M., Shibata, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, Y., Shustrov, P., Sinclair, B., Smith, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, L., Southwell, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, R., Sulej, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, M., Szeptycka, R., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takeuchi, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, I., Taylor, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, S., Tobayama, W., Toki, T., Tomura, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, A., Waldron, C., Walter, J., Wang, D., Wark, M., Wascko, A., Weber, R., Wendell, G., Wikström, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, C., Wilkinson, Z., Williamson, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, T., Yano, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., Åmuda
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, ddc:500.2, Antiprotons, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Pions, 0103 physical sciences, Momentum range, Muon neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Nuclear Experiment, QC, Physics, Gev-c, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Particle-production, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, Física, Detector, Monitor, Solar neutrino problem, Nuclei, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Protons, Absorption cross-sections, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment studies neutrino oscillations using an off-axismuon neutrino beam with a peak energy of about 0.6 GeV that originates at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex accelerator facility. Interactions of the neutrinos are observed at near detectors placed at 280 m from the production target and at the far detector-Super-Kamiokande-located 295 km away. The flux prediction is an essential part of the successful prediction of neutrino interaction rates at the T2K detectors and is an important input to T2K neutrino oscillation and cross section measurements. A FLUKA and GEANT3-based simulation models the physical processes involved in the neutrino production, from the interaction of primary beam protons in the T2K target, to the decay of hadrons and muons that produce neutrinos. The simulation uses proton beam monitor measurements as inputs. The modeling of hadronic interactions is reweighted using thin target hadron production data, including recent charged pion and kaon measurements from the NA61/SHINE experiment. For the first T2K analyses the uncertainties on the flux prediction are evaluated to be below 15% near the flux peak. The uncertainty on the ratio of the flux predictions at the far and near detectors is less than 2% near the flux peak., We thank the J-PARC accelerator team for the superb accelerator performance and the J-PARC center for the continuous support of the T2K experiment. We are grateful to the NA61/SHINE collaboration and FLUKA team for their assistance to make our data-driven flux prediction. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; National Science Centre, Poland; RAS, RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; MEST and NRF, South Korea; MICINN and CPAN, Spain; SNSF and SER, Switzerland; STFC, U.K.; NSF and DOE, U.S.. We also thank CERN for their donation of the UA1/NOMAD magnet and DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions in T2K has been further supported by funds from: ERC (FP7), E.U.; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, U.K.; DOE Early Career program; and the A.P. Sloan Foundation, U.S.
Published: 2013

23. Recent Results from the T2K Experiment

Author: Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, S. Assylbekov, Koji Yamamoto, K. Abe, A. Cervera, V. Palladino, C. Yanagisawa, A. Blondel, V. Galymov, T. Tomura, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, M. Ziembicki, R. Ohta, W. R. Kropp, Y. Totsuka, J. Zalipska, J. Insler, E. L. Mathie, M. Ravonel, Susumu Takahashi, S. Tobayama, M. Lawe, S. J. Coleman, J. Lagoda, A. Himmel, R. G. Calland, Y. Takeuchi, Gareth J. Barker, D. Gudin, T. Wongjirad, K. Sakashita, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, K. Nishikawa, G. D. Lopez, M. Lazos, T. Kajita, Minoru Otani, S. M. Oser, S. B. Boyd, Y. Shustrov, Robert Wilson, Antonin Vacheret, M. Tzanov, M. Hierholzer, D. Ruterbories, C. Touramanis, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, C. J. Metelko, Rhiju Das, H. W. Sobel, C. Licciardi, J. P. Coleman, C. Bojechko, Kevin Scott McFarland, I. Taylor, S. Horikawa, Y. Seiya, B. Jamieson, A. Zalewska, Federico Sanchez, C. J. Densham, Jan T. Sobczyk, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, M. Zito, Hidekazu Kakuno, Hiroaki Aihara, T. Maruyama, S. Mine, P. N. Ratoff, T. Ishii, G. Christodoulou, J. Holeczek, T. Kutter, K. Nakayoshi, K. Laihem, B. Quilain, S. Murphy, Mauricio Barbi, R. L. Helmer, I. Kreslo, S. Kumaratunga, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, M. Ieva, E. Kearns, Masashi Yokoyama, N. J. Buchanan, J. H. Jo, G.D. Barr, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, M. Friend, L. Southwell, T. Dealtry, J. Myslik, C. W. Walter, E. Poplawska, R. Tacik, A. Missert, J. Zmuda, O. Perevozchikov, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, F. Retiere, T. Golan, S. Moriyama, P. Stamoulis, K. Ieki, K. Koseki, Y. Nishimura, T. J. Irvine, Yusuke Koshio, Takahiro Hiraki, D. Karlen, D. Brailsford, I. Karpikov, K. Zaremba, Yuki Fujii, R. Poutissou, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, Masayuki Nakahata, A. Konaka, L. L. Kormos, André Rubbia, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, P. Masliah, C. K. Jung, Hidetoshi Kubo, Atsushi Takeda, R. J. Wilkes, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, Y. Uchida, K. P. Lee, W. H. Toki, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, T. Akiri, M. Ikeda, P. Jonsson, Rosario Castillo, A. Dabrowska, A. Longhin, B. A. Popov, P. A. Rodrigues, J. Dumarchez, G. Kogan, J. Marteau, J. Schwehr, F. Bay, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Szeglowski, T. Hasegawa, T. Tsukamoto, A. Robert, Masato Shiozawa, L. Ludovici, C. Wilkinson, Janusz Marzec, F. Dufour, G. De Rosa, Z. Williamson, Akitaka Ariga, Ko Okumura, Y. Fukuda, A. Izmaylov, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, R. A. Owen, A. Haesler, A. Clifton, D. Sgalaberna, Y. Kanazawa, Joshua Hignight, Kendall Mahn, Yoshihiro Suzuki, A. Redij, S. B. Kim, B. E. Berger, S. Bhadra, S. Emery, P. Sinclair, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, J. D. Perkin, A. J. Finch, R. A. Johnson, T. Lindner, M. A. M. Rayner, S. J. Ives, Shigeki Aoki, David Hadley, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, K. Gilje, M. Macaire, T. Ishida, M. Miura, Michal Dziewiecki, S. Giffin, A. N. Khotjantsev, A. Kolaceke, E. Radicioni, S. Manly, M. J. Wilking, T. Yuan, V. Matveev, D. L. Wark, T. Duboyski, L. Zambelli, J. Steinmann, S. L. Cartwright, C. A. Miller, A. Minamino, Kate Scholberg, K. Connolly, T. Hara, A. D. Marino, Yusuke Suda, M. Malek, D. Terhorst, M. Hartz, Masashi Tanaka, Iain Alexander Bertram, A. P. Furmanski, J. Imber, V. Paolone, A. Jacob, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, R. A. Wendell, A. C. Weber, A. Kilinski, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Bass, A. C. Kaboth, S. Berkman, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, Vincenzo Berardi, Tomoko Ariga, G. Vasseur, N. Grant, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, T. Nakai, E. Rondio, N. McCauley, R. Terri, K. Huang, P. Przewlocki, Lester D.R. Thompson, M. R. Vagins, A. Murakami, I. T. Lim, C. Hearty, B. Still, Richard J.H. Smith, Jan Kisiel, T. Kobayashi, S. Di Luise, L. Cremonesi, A. Curioni, A. T. Suzuki, J. F. Martin, D. Autiero, T. Nakadaira, M. Nirkko, C. Pistillo, B. Smith, E. Reinherz-Aronis, Y. Petrov, E. Scantamburlo, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, D. Cherdack, I. Z. Danko, M. B. Smy, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, R. Sacco, F. Di Lodovico, M. Tada, D. J. Payne, C. McGrew, Yu. G. Kudenko, L. Monfregola, P. Hamilton, M. Murdoch, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, S. Nakayama, S. Yen, M. M. Khabibullin, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, M. Y. Pac, O. Drapier, Seiko Hirota, A. K. Ichikawa, A. Hillairet, S. Roth, J. Kameda, T. Kikawa, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, M. Gonin, Th. A. Mueller, Matthew T. Reeves, P. Mijakowski, L. Escudero, W. Oryszczak, H. M. O'Keeffe, Kazuhiro Suzuki, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, T. Sekiguchi, M. Sorel, M. D. Haigh, Koji Nakamura, P. de Perio, Yoshikazu Yamada, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), T2K, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, C., Andreopoulo, S., Aoki, A., Ariga, T., Ariga, S., Assylbekov, D., Autiero, M., Barbi, G., Barker, G., Barr, M., Ba, M., Batkiewicz, F., Bay, S., Bentham, V., Berardi, B., Berger, S., Berkman, I., Bertram, S., Bhadra, F., Blaszczyk, A., Blondel, C., Bojechko, S., Boyd, D., Brailsford, A., Bravar, C., Bronner, N., Buchanan, R., Calland, J. 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P., Guerra, C., Pistillo, P., Plonski, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala, J., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, B., Quilain, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, M., Ravonel, M., Rayner, A., Redij, M., Reeve, E., Reinherz Aroni, F., Retiere, A., Robert, P., Rodrigue, E., Rondio, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., S??????nchez, E., Scantamburlo, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, D., Sgalaberna, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, Y., Shustrov, P., Sinclair, B., Smith, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, L., Southwell, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, Y., Suda, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, R. b., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takeuchi, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, I., Taylor, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, S., Tobayama, W., Toki, T., Tomura, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M. y., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, A., Waldron, C., Walter, D. a., Wark, M., Wascko, A. a., Weber, R., Wendell, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, C., Wilkinson, Z., Williamson, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., Zmuda
Subjects: θ13, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, Neutrino Oscillation, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Long Baseline, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, T2K, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, and Optics, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy
Abstract: The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment studies neutrino oscillations using a beam of muon neutrinos produced by an accelerator. The neutrinos travel from J-PARC on the east coast of Japan and are detected 295 kilometers further away in the Super-Kamiokande detector. A complex of near detectors located 280 meters away from the neutrino production target is used to better characterize the neutrino beam and reduce systematic uncertainties. The experiment aims at measuring electronic neutrino appearance ( ν μ → ν e oscillation) to measure the neutrino mixing angle θ 13 , and muon neutrino disappearance to measure the neutrino mixing angle θ 23 and mass splitting | Δ m 32 2 |. We report here electron neutrino appearance results using three years of data, recorded until the 2012 summer, as well as muon neutrino disappearance results based on the data coming from the first two years of the experiment.
Published: 2012
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24. First Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Study with an Off-Axis Beam

Author: M. Sorel, F. Pierre, R. A. Wendell, Vincenzo Berardi, T. Nakai, P. T. Le, Jing Wang, Tomoko Ariga, E. Rondio, Akitaka Ariga, Oleg Mineev, P. Dinh Tran, M. L. Navin, W. Toki, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, Shigeki Aoki, S. Nakayama, S. M. Oser, G. Vasseur, A. Sarrat, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, S. Giffin, N. McCauley, Y. Seiya, T. Maruyama, M. Ravonel, Achim Stahl, A. Robert, J. M. Levy, P. Gumplinger, S. Tobayama, M. Ziembicki, T. Nakadaira, J. Schwehr, A. Izmaylov, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, S. Murphy, Hiroyuki Kawamuko, J. Zalipska, F. Retiere, Michel Raymond, M. Zito, K. Nishikawa, E. Radicioni, G. Christodoulou, C. W. Walter, Y. Totsuka, Jan T. Sobczyk, J. Ilic, R. L. Helmer, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, A. Yamamoto, J. Kameda, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, F. Khanam, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, I. Kreslo, M. Barbi, K. Laihem, Alexander Finch, M. M. Tanaka, M. Goldhaber, P. Przewlocki, G.D. Barr, S. Y. Suzuki, W. Metcalf, P. de Perio, D. I. Scully, T. Wongjirad, T. C. Nicholls, Robert Wilson, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, M. Ikeda, Lester D.R. Thompson, S. Manly, B. Hartfiel, D. L. Wark, M. Y. Pac, A. Delbart, K. Hamano, André Rubbia, S. Takahashi, T. Tsukamoto, D. R. Hadley, S. Horikawa, Takahiro Okamura, G. Jover-Manas, Leigh H. Whitehead, M. Bass, K. Sasaki, O. Araoka, J. Argyriades, K. Koseki, A. C. Weber, A.K. Ghosh, Justin Albert, W. Coleman, Biagio Rossi, K. Mizouchi, A. Minamino, A. Carver, M. Mezzetto, Hiroyuki Sekiya, F. Bay, T. Szeglowski, Soo-Bong Kim, K. Zaremba, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, K. P. Lee, M. Day, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, Y. Yamada, Z. Williamson, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, R. J. Wilkes, J. D. Perkin, Kendall Mahn, P. F. Loverre, B. Smith, Masato Shiozawa, M. Iida, J. M. Roney, A. Haesler, Viktor Matveev, J. P.A.M. De André, J. Beucher, S. L. Cartwright, J. L. Stone, T. Dealtry, A. Murakami, G. Wikström, K. Huang, Atsushi Takeda, A. Missert, S. Bhadra, M. Siyad, V. Pettinacci, T. Hasegawa, Joseph Muratore, S. Mine, Masashi Tanaka, H. Kaji, D. Naples, P. Guzowski, T. Hara, K. Kowalik, N. Kulkarni, K. Connolly, O. Drapier, F. Moreau, M. J. Wilking, N. Grant, K. Suzuki, Y. Takeuchi, A. D. Marino, Y. Kouzuma, R.P. Kurjata, M. Malek, C. Hearty, R. A. Johnson, Omar Veledar, H. Nishino, H. S. Budd, A. Blondel, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, D. Terhorst, Henry W. Sobel, K. Iyogi, P. Mijakowski, S. W. Bentham, Koji Nakamura, U. Dore, A. Thorley, K. Abe, A. Korzenev, K. Hayashi, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, T. M. Raufer, S. Yamada, J. Lagoda, P. Stamoulis, Minoru Otani, R. Sacco, D. Ruterbories, V. Paolone, A. N. Khotjantsev, Y. Fujii, J. Zmuda, Frédéric Dufour, A. Suzuki, E. D. Zimmerman, A. Terashima, C. McGrew, M. Iwasaki, C. Bojechko, Masashi Yokoyama, I. Z. Danko, A. Konaka, A. Cazes, A. Cervera, V. Palladino, M. Vagins, S. Sabouri, E. Poplawska, G. P. Ward, I. T. Lim, A. Gaudin, W. Qian, A. Zalewska, G. Kogan, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, B. Andrieu, G. De Rosa, M. Miura, N. Tanimoto, T. Ozaki, B. Nielsen, Michal Dziewiecki, M. Messina, J. Steinmann, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Robert Henderson, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, R. A. Owen, S. Gomi, T. Kutter, S. Koike, K. Tashiro, Koh Ueno, J. Holeczek, M. Taguchi, M. Fechner, C. Andreopoulos, Kimihiro Okumura, Iain Alexander Bertram, A. Badertscher, Katsuyu Kasami, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, T. Ishii, M. M. Khabibullin, Rhiju Das, Yoshinari Hayato, M. Macaire, Y. Takenaga, M. Dziomba, N. Kimura, Fred Gannaway, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Marzec, J. Kubota, Yasuhiro Makida, N. J. Buchanan, B. Jamieson, B. E. Berger, M. Ieva, B. A. Popov, Camilla Juul Hansen, M. Lawe, J. L. Raaf, A. Gendotti, Takaaki Kajita, Andrew Marone, C. K. Jung, T. Duboyski, Eiichi Hirose, T. Yuan, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, A. Bravar, D. G. Brook-Roberge, R. G. Calland, Y. Kurimoto, A. V. Waldron, P. F. Harrison, G. D. Lopez, R. Tacik, T. Sekiguchi, P. A. Rodrigues, M. B. Smy, Takahiro Hiraki, C. Yanagisawa, V. Kravtsov, K. Kaneyuki, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, M. Besnier, A. Hillairet, Tatsushi Nakamoto, Michael Anerella, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, C. Licciardi, S. Choi, J. Dobson, Gavin Davies, B. Still, P. Wanderer, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, Federico Sanchez, L. Zambelli, A. Dabrowska, I. Taylor, L. Ludovici, Joshua Hignight, N. West, R. P. Litchfield, T. Ishida, Gareth J. Barker, M. Shibata, K. Nakajima, M. Tada, I. Kato, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Michael Litos, C. Matsumura, D. Payne, David Calvet, Y. Shimizu, Kate Scholberg, Alastair Grant, B. Kirby, Richard J.H. Smith, C. Touramanis, Dmitriy Beznosko, S. Assylbekov, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, A. Ferrero, A. Muir, G. Mituka, M. Hartz, Kodai Matsuoka, J. P. Coleman, Antonio Ereditato, G. Ganetis, N. Yershov, R. Terri, P. Sinclair, T. Lindner, Hiroshi Yamaoka, A. Marchionni, C. Densham, Kevin Scott McFarland, Takashi Kobayashi, Yasuo Ajima, T. McLachlan, L. L. Kormos, M. D. Haigh, S. Dytman, A. K. Ichikawa, V. Galymov, S. Di Luise, H. Kubo, A. Curioni, S. Roth, J. Bouchez, F. Di Lodovico, Thorsten Lux, T. Maryon, T. Nobuhara, M. Gonin, C. A. Chavez, L. Escudero, Kenichi Tanaka, Matthew T. Reeves, J. Escallier, A. Hyndman, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, H. Kakuno, J. Kisiel, M. A. George, Yu. G. Kudenko, Toru Ogitsu, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, E. Kearns, Sy Suzuki, M. Murdoch, P. Paul, S. Yen, T. Yano, L. Monfregola, M. A. Ward, Norio Higashi, K. Gilje, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, Hirokatsu Ohhata, Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, J. A. Nowak, C. Ishihara, Y. Obayashi, Yusuke Koshio, T. Yamauchi, S. W. K. Emery, Ken Sakashita, N. Nagai, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, R. Poutissou, P. Masliah, B. Morgan, A. Hatzikoutelis, Y. Yamanoi, J. Y. Kim, R. Sulej, K. Nitta, E. L. Mathie, S. B. Boyd, M. Szeptycka, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, S. J. Ives, C. A. Miller, Takayuki Tomaru, C. Strabel, J. J. Walding, J. Myslik, T. Golan, T. Kikawa, J. 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Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 530 Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Neutrino scattering, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Muon neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, QC, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, Física, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Beam (structure)
Abstract: We report a measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in the T2K experiment. The 295-km muon-neutrino beam from Tokai to Kamioka is the first implementation of the off-axis technique in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. With data corresponding to 1.43 × 10(20) protons on target, we observe 31 fully-contained single μ-like ring events in Super-Kamiokande, compared with an expectation of 104 ± 14(syst) events without neutrino oscillations. The best-fit point for two-flavor νμ → ντ oscillations is sin 2(2θ(23)) = 0.98 and |Δm(2)(32)| = 2.65 × 10(−3) eV2. The boundary of the 90% confidence region includes the points (sin2 (2θ(23)), |Δm(2)(32)|) = (1.0, 3.1 × 10(−3) eV2), (0.84, 2.65 × 10(−3) eV2) and (1.0, 2.2 × 10(−3) eV2)., Physical Review D, 85 (3), ISSN:1550-7998, ISSN:0556-2821, ISSN:1550-2368
Published: 2012
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25. The T2K ND280 Off-Axis Pi-Zero Detector

Author: C. K. Jung, Y. Caffari, G. D. Lopez, B. E. Berger, J. Schmidt, S. Manly, J. Steffens, R. Bradford, Kevin Scott McFarland, M. Day, G.D. Barr, D. Warner, A. D. Marino, C. Yanagisawa, M. Thorpe, Robert Wilson, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, P. T. Le, A. Bodek, G. F. Pearce, Dmitriy Beznosko, N. J. Buchanan, B. Nielsen, G. Nagashima, V. Paolone, C. J. Metelko, D. A. Forbush, D. Naples, J. Schwehr, W. Toki, I. Taylor, H. G. Berns, C. McGrew, R. J. Wilkes, A. C. Weber, P. A. Rodrigues, P. Paul, R. A. Johnson, H. S. Budd, K. Gilje, S. Assylbekov, Joshua Hignight, C. J. Malafis, Rhiju Das, D. Ruterbories, A. S. Tadepalli, C. Vanek, M. Dziomba, E. Reinherz-Aronis, V. Kravtsov, W. Qian, T. Yuan, I. Z. Danko, K. Connolly, S. A. Dytman, Kieran P. Ramos, T. C. Nicholls, J. Imber, M. Siyad, and R. Flight
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutral current, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillator, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Scintillation counter, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Instrumentation, Lepton
Abstract: The Pi-Zero detector (P{\O}D) is one of the subdetectors that makes up the off-axis near detector for the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long baseline neutrino experiment. The primary goal for the P{\O}D is to measure the relevant cross sections for neutrino interactions that generate pi-zero's, especially the cross section for neutral current pi-zero interactions, which are one of the dominant sources of background to the electron neutrino appearance signal in T2K. The P{\O}D is composed of layers of plastic scintillator alternating with water bags and brass sheets or lead sheets and is one of the first detectors to use Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs) on a large scale., Comment: 17 pages, submitted to NIM A
Published: 2011

26. Indication of electron neutrino appearance from an accelerator-produced off-axis muon neutrino beam

Author: S. Roth, J. Lagoda, M. Iwasaki, Paul Fraser Harrison, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Ikeda, M. Bass, F. Pierre, R. A. Wendell, C. Bojechko, C. W. Walter, B. A. Popov, Vincenzo Berardi, P. T. Le, P. Mijakowski, C. Licciardi, Tomoko Ariga, J. Ilic, M. Ravonel, T. Maruyama, E. L. Mathie, V. Galymov, T. Ishii, M. A. George, I. Taylor, G. Vasseur, T. Nakadaira, Kazuhiro Suzuki, M. Ieva, Hirokatsu Ohhata, Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, P. Paul, Kate Scholberg, M. M. Khabibullin, A. Yamamoto, Toru Ogitsu, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, T. Maryon, Michel Raymond, P. Kitching, R. Tacik, M. Hartz, G. Christodoulou, S. B. Boyd, J. R. Wilson, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, E. Frank, M. O. Wascko, C. A. Chavez, Marco Laveder, A. Ferrero, B. Hartfiel, A. C. Weber, E. Kearns, K. P. Lee, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, M. Szeptycka, M. M. Tanaka, Leigh H. Whitehead, J. P.A.M. De André, E. Mazzucato, Sy Suzuki, Y. Obayashi, K. Mavrokoridis, G. F. Pearce, J. J. Walding, A. Suzuki, J. Myslik, N. Grant, André Rubbia, M. Murdoch, S. W. K. Emery, Masayuki Nakahata, P. de Perio, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, Yusuke Koshio, Masashi Tanaka, S. Yen, T. Ishida, Yoshikazu Yamada, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, T. Yano, T. Golan, Biagio Rossi, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Y. Uchida, C. Hansen, C. A. Miller, A. Minamino, M. Day, V. Paolone, P. Sutcliffe, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, R. Poutissou, Hs Budd, P. Masliah, T. Szeglowski, Soo-Bong Kim, A. Longhin, Michael Litos, J. Marteau, O. Drapier, K. Iyogi, F. Moreau, E. D. Zimmerman, M. Iida, B. Morgan, M. A. Ward, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, J. M. Levy, L. L. Kormos, T. Kikawa, C. Touramanis, Kendall Mahn, Robert Henderson, A. Hatzikoutelis, H. Kaji, R. A. Johnson, Antonio Ereditato, H. Nishino, M. Zito, N. Yershov, A. Cazes, K. Zaremba, B. Kirby, I. Kreslo, J. Dumarchez, Kevin Scott McFarland, A. Cervera, Henry W. Sobel, V. Palladino, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Takashi Kobayashi, M. Malek, J. Y. Kim, J. Kisiel, T. M. Raufer, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, Y. Takeuchi, A. Delbart, J. D. Perkin, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, R. Sulej, Atsushi Takeda, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Oleg Mineev, K. Hamano, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, T. Tsukamoto, S. J. Ives, R. P. Litchfield, Takayuki Tomaru, Masato Shiozawa, M. Ziembicki, S. Sabouri, Ken Sakashita, Norio Higashi, J. Zalipska, Minoru Otani, David Calvet, C. Strabel, S. Assylbekov, M. Siyad, V. Pettinacci, K. Gilje, A. Zalewska, Federico Sanchez, M. Fechner, A. Haesler, Fred Gannaway, Alexander Finch, D. Ruterbories, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, Akitaka Ariga, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, K. Kowalik, J. Marzec, C. Matsumura, D. Payne, T. Hara, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, Koji Nakamura, M. Barbi, Hiroaki Aihara, G. Jover-Manas, A. Carver, Shigeki Aoki, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, S. Giffin, A. N. Khotjantsev, Y. Fujii, W. Coleman, A. Gendotti, A. Missert, F. Bay, M. Miura, T. Ozaki, A. Muir, Kodai Matsuoka, P. Guzowski, A. Bravar, Frédéric Dufour, C. Yanagisawa, K. Nishikawa, G. P. Ward, I. T. Lim, R. Terri, J. Holeczek, P. Wanderer, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, Michal Dziewiecki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, N. Kimura, H. Kubo, K. Nakajima, M. Tada, P. Gumplinger, R. L. Helmer, Gareth J. Barker, Kimihiro Okumura, K. Koseki, Y. Shimizu, Dmitriy Beznosko, D. G. Brook-Roberge, S. M. Oser, J. P. Coleman, Y. Seiya, J. Schwehr, Yasuo Ajima, T. McLachlan, S. Horikawa, A. Blondel, M. Goldhaber, S. Yamada, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, D. I. Scully, N. J. Buchanan, P. A. Rodrigues, E. Radicioni, M. L. Navin, H.A. Tanaka, Yoshinari Hayato, C. K. Jung, D. L. Wark, M. Y. Pac, Achim Stahl, J. L. Stone, D. Kielczewska, A. Dabrowska, A. D. Marino, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, N. West, I. Kato, K. Kaneyuki, T. C. Nicholls, Gavin Davies, U. Dore, P. Stamoulis, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, L. Ludovici, M. Sorel, A. Gaudin, W. Qian, T. Lindner, C. Densham, G. Kogan, G. De Rosa, S. Hastings, R. A. Owen, M. D. Haigh, A. Badertscher, M. Macaire, Y. Takenaga, M. J. Wilking, Rhiju Das, S. Dytman, B. Jamieson, J. L. Raaf, J. Bouchez, Thorsten Lux, O. Araoka, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, Kenichi Tanaka, J. Steinmann, K. Abe, R. Sacco, S. L. Cartwright, A. Terashima, C. McGrew, K. Connolly, C. Andreopoulos, D. Terhorst, T. Nakai, Jing Wang, E. Rondio, P. Dinh Tran, N. McCauley, K. Mizouchi, Viktor Matveev, M. Noy, N. Tanimoto, Iain Alexander Bertram, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, M. B. Smy, M. Shibata, A. Hyndman, J. Kameda, P. Przewlocki, P. F. Loverre, J. M. Roney, Lester D.R. Thompson, Y. Kouzuma, L. R. Sulak, M. Mezzetto, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, I. Z. Danko, K. Sasaki, K. Tashiro, Koh Ueno, Katsuyu Kasami, Yasuhiro Makida, N. Kulkarni, C. Hearty, T. Sekiguchi, Tatsushi Nakamoto, Alastair Grant, Richard J.H. Smith, G. Mituka, A. Murakami, Yutaka Yamanoi, Hiroshi Yamaoka, A. Marchionni, S. Di Luise, F. Di Lodovico, A. Curioni, K. Hayashi, Barry L. Nelson, Yu. G. Kudenko, L. Monfregola, S. Koike, S. Manly, M. Vagins, B. Andrieu, C. Giganti, B. Still, J. A. Nowak, C. Ishihara, M. Dziomba, Eiichi Hirose, M. 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Subjects: Particle physics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, ddc:500.2, CHOOZ, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), neutrino, 14.60.Pq, 13.15.+g, 25.30.Pt, 95.55.Vj, 0103 physical sciences, neutrino oscillation, Muon neutrino, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, NOνA, Tribimaximal mixing, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, T2K experiment, Física, T2K Collaboration, particle identification, Electron neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: The T2K experiment observes indications of $\nu_\mu\rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance in data accumulated with $1.43\times10^{20}$ protons on target. Six events pass all selection criteria at the far detector. In a three-flavor neutrino oscillation scenario with $|\Delta m_{23}^2|=2.4\times10^{-3}$ eV$^2$, $\sin^2 2\theta_{23}=1$ and $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}=0$, the expected number of such events is 1.5$\pm$0.3(syst.). Under this hypothesis, the probability to observe six or more candidate events is 7$\times10^{-3}$, equivalent to 2.5$\sigma$ significance. At 90% C.L., the data are consistent with 0.03(0.04)$, Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, version published in PRL
Published: 2011
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27. First Direct Observation of Muon Antineutrino Disappearance

Author: J. Urheim, A. E. Kreymer, H. A. Rubin, Marvin L Marshak, Carlos Escobar, M. V. Diwan, G. J. Bock, R. K. Plunkett, J. A. Musser, W. P. Oliver, M. Bishai, P. Shanahan, D. Cherdack, A. Holin, R. Mehdiyev, D. J. Auty, W. H. Miller, Matthew L Strait, X. Qiu, J. R. Meier, N. Graf, P. Stamoulis, C. Andreopoulos, R. Ospanov, J. Ratchford, C. D. Moore, L. Loiacono, R. Toner, P. A. Rodrigues, Joao A B Coelho, G. Lefeuvre, P. Lucas, B. Rebel, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, R. A. Gomes, M. Orchanian, R. C. Webb, T. Kafka, S. Childress, J. K. De Jong, T. Yang, K. Grzelak, J. A. Nowak, C. Rosenfeld, S. Phan-Budd, A. Sousa, D. Bogert, R. L. Talaga, L. Corwin, S. L. Mufson, H. R. Gallagher, P. Adamson, J. Ilic, N. E. Devenish, L. Whitehead, P. J. Litchfield, D. A. Harris, R. B. Patterson, M. Kordosky, D. S. Ayres, M. A. Thomson, S. M. S. Kasahara, D. Naples, J. K. Nelson, G. Tinti, N. Mayer, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. J. Evans, Andrew Blake, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, P. Vahle, D. A. Jensen, C. Howcroft, S. Cavanaugh, D. J. Boehnlein, Karol Lang, G. Tzanakos, A. M. McGowan, G. Koizumi, R. Hatcher, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, A. C. Weber, M. D. Messier, R. Zwaska, N. Grant, Christopher G. White, M. V. Frohne, W. A. Mann, E. Tetteh-Lartey, P. Schreiner, T. C. Nicholls, Xian-Rong Huang, J. Schneps, I. Z. Danko, E. Falk, Brajesh C Choudhary, M. C. Sanchez, M. Dorman, G. F. Pearce, Maury Goodman, C. Backhouse, Gregory J Pawloski, Jorge G. Morfin, David Petyt, C. James, John C. Mitchell, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, Juergen Thomas, D. E. Jaffe, P. Gouffon, J. Hylen, B. Viren, R. J. Nichol, Alec Habig, G. M. Irwin, S. J. Coleman, G. J. Feldman, J. M. Paley, Harvey B Newman, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, L. Mualem, and J. Hartnell
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Antiparticle, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS, LEPTON CHARGE, MATTER, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), MINOS, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment, Charged current, Lepton
Abstract: This letter reports the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance. The MINOS experiment has taken data with an accelerator beam optimized for muon antineutrino production, accumulating an exposure of $1.71\times 10^{20}$ protons on target. In the Far Detector, 97 charged current muon antineutrino events are observed. The no-oscillation hypothesis predicts 156 events and is excluded at $6.3\sigma$. The best fit to oscillation yields $\Delta \bar{m}^{2}=(3.36^{+0.46}_{-0.40}\textrm{(stat.)}\pm0.06\textrm{(syst.)})\times 10^{-3}\,\eV^{2}$, $\sin^{2}(2\bar{\theta})=0.86^{+0.11}_{-0.12}\textrm{(stat.)}\pm0.01\textrm{(syst.)}$. The MINOS muon neutrino and muon antineutrino measurements are consistent at the 2.0% confidence level, assuming identical underlying oscillation parameters., Comment: Six pages, four figures. This version published by Physical Review Letters
Published: 2011

28. Measurement of the underground atmospheric muon charge ratio using the MINOS Near Detector

Author: A. E. Kreymer, Marvin L Marshak, H. R. Gallagher, D. A. Harris, G. M. Irwin, J. Schneps, I. Z. Danko, V. A. Ryabov, M. V. Diwan, C. Backhouse, J. Reichenbacher, J. A. Nowak, G. J. Feldman, P. Schreiner, J. Ilic, Matthew L Strait, M. A. Thomson, R. Hatcher, D. Naples, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, Karol Lang, Stanley G. Wojcicki, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, J. Urheim, L. Mualem, N. Mayer, Gregory J Pawloski, S. J. Coleman, J. Hylen, John C. Mitchell, Joao A B Coelho, M. C. Goodman, G. Tzanakos, Xian-Rong Huang, Jorge G. Morfin, D. J. Auty, D. J. Boehnlein, C. James, T. H. Fields, J. M. Paley, G. Koizumi, J. A. Musser, G. J. Bock, Harvey B Newman, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, J. J. Evans, Philip Harris, M. Kordosky, P. Bhattarai, P. Shanahan, R. Mehdiyev, Warner A. Miller, T. Yang, A. Holin, D. Cronin-Hennessy, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, R. J. Nichol, M. Bishai, Andrew Blake, R. Pittam, T. M. Raufer, D.S. Damiani, S. R. Mishra, D. G. Michael, M. Orchanian, R. C. Webb, M. V. Frohne, A. Sousa, P. Gouffon, Alec Habig, K. Grzelak, D. Bogert, G. Tinti, P. A. Rodrigues, Brajesh C Choudhary, Juergen Thomas, N. E. Devenish, R. Zwaska, C. Rosenfeld, G. Lefeuvre, R. B. Patterson, M. D. Messier, M. C. Sanchez, P. J. Litchfield, D. E. Jaffe, B. Viren, A. M. McGowan, T. Kafka, R. Toner, J. K. De Jong, B. Rebel, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, M. Dorman, Christopher G. White, J. R. Meier, R. L. Talaga, N. Graf, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, S. M. S. Kasahara, E. Falk, J. K. Nelson, A. C. Weber, D. A. Jensen, N. Grant, S. Budd, Z. Krahn, D. Cherdack, C. Andreopoulos, L. Loiacono, R. A. Gomes, S. Childress, J. Ratchford, C. D. Moore, Douglas Wright, L. Corwin, S. L. Mufson, P. Lucas, Carlos Escobar, R. K. Plunkett, William L. Barrett, X. Qiu, W. A. Mann, D. S. Ayres, H. A. Rubin, W. P. Oliver, and J. Hartnell
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Meson, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Particle decay, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), MINOS, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment, Lepton, Dimensionless quantity
Abstract: The magnetized MINOS Near Detector, at a depth of 225 meters of water equivalent (mwe), is used to measure the atmospheric muon charge ratio. The ratio of observed positive to negative atmospheric muon rates, using 301 days of data, is measured to be 1.266+/-0.001(stat.)+0.015/-0.014(syst.). This measurement is consistent with previous results from other shallow underground detectors, and is 0.108+/-0.019(stat. + syst.) lower than the measurement at the functionally identical MINOS Far Detector at a depth of 2070 mwe. This increase in charge ratio as a function of depth is consistent with an increase in the fraction of muons arising from kaon decay for increasing muon surface energies., 11 pages, 8 figures submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2011

29. The T2K Experiment

Author: J. Ilic, Ferran Grañena, Biagio Rossi, Hiroyuki Sekiya, J. Zmuda, A. Suzuki, T. Szeglowski, Soo-Bong Kim, S. Dytman, Kendall Mahn, J. Bouchez, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Delagnes, E. Poplawska, Thorsten Lux, M. Messina, Sy Suzuki, M. Murdoch, V. Kasey, M. Gonin, S. Gomi, A. V. Waldron, P. A. Rodrigues, K. Suzuki, Y. Takeuchi, L. Escudero, Kenichi Tanaka, J. Dobson, R. Langstaff, P. Vincent, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Kubota, P. Paul, S. Yen, T. Yano, S. M. Oser, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, Shinya Yamada, K. Briggs, Minoru Otani, J. Statter, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, D. Ruterbories, Y. Seiya, M. Khaleeq, A. Le Coguie, Achim Stahl, M. A. Ward, A. S. Tadepalli, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, J. Schwehr, Kimihiro Okumura, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, J.P. Mols, M. Boyer, Jean-Charles Vanel, A. K. Ichikawa, S. Herlant, S. Roth, R. E. Minvielle, W. Toki, C. Yanagisawa, M. Goldhaber, M. Zito, P. Cooke, D. G. Brook-Roberge, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, Kieran P. Ramos, T. C. Nicholls, O. Araoka, Henry W. Sobel, M. Fitton, T. M. Raufer, J. Lagoda, I. Kreslo, J. Escallier, P. Mijakowski, M. M. Khabibullin, J. Blocki, Andrew Marone, K. Nishikawa, D. Morris, Joseph Muratore, J. Carroll, K. Abe, R. Sacco, A. Terashima, C. McGrew, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, Ioannis Giomataris, Gareth J. Barker, S. Murphy, C. Ohlmann, D. Richards, Y. Shimizu, W. Metcalf, C. K. Jung, J. L. Raaf, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, A. Dabrowska, D. Allan, N. West, I. Kato, C. Andreopoulos, G. Nagashima, S. Horikawa, T. Lindner, P. Amaudruz, Y. Obayashi, C. Densham, T. Wongjirad, L. L. Kormos, D. Ross, A. Delbart, T. Ishida, T. Boussuge, M. A. George, Toru Ogitsu, Hiroyuki Kawamuko, M. J. Wilking, K. Mizouchi, S. Chollet, S. L. Cartwright, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Ping Lu, Dmitriy Beznosko, Julien Schmidt, F. Retiere, P. Kitching, M. Iwasaki, C. Bojechko, J. P. Coleman, K. Hamano, Kevin Connolly, J. Steinmann, Jan T. Sobczyk, I. Mercer, T. Tsukamoto, J. Kisiel, H. G. 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Kaneyuki, S. Nakayama, Y. Kouzuma, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, J. P. Charrier, K. Kowalik, T. Okusawa, D. Warner, W. Faszer, T. Hara, A. Sarrat, S. Short, J. P. A. M. de André, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, A. D. Marino, S. W. K. Emery, C. J. Malafis, A. N. Khotjantsev, M. Barbi, B. Jamieson, M. M. Tanaka, N. Kimura, S. Y. Suzuki, I. Z. Danko, A. Bravar, T. Dealtry, C. Fisher, Y. Kurimoto, P. Guzowski, Y. Fujii, M. Szeptycka, R. Poutissou, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, W. Coleman, André Rubbia, G. Sheffer, T. Durkin, J. D. Perkin, C. Licciardi, Rituparna Das, D. Karlen, D. Smith, O. Star, K. Tashiro, J. Brinson, Koh Ueno, P. Sutcliffe, Hs Budd, I. Taylor, J. Myslik, J. F. van Schalkwyk, Katsuyu Kasami, P. Masliah, M. Vagins, V. Tvaskis, R. J. Wilkes, R. Openshaw, Michael Anerella, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, F. Bay, F. Di Lodovico, M. Tada, L. Bartoszek, Masato Shiozawa, A. C. Weber, N. Tanimoto, R. P. Litchfield, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, A. Ferrero, R. A. Johnson, Omar Veledar, T. Golan, J. Giraud, B. Morgan, T. Komorowski, A. Muir, Yasuo Ajima, T. McLachlan, D. A. Forbush, Akitaka Ariga, B. Andrieu, David Calvet, A. Blondel, Iain Alexander Bertram, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, Barry L. Nelson, Robert D. Preece, Kodai Matsuoka, M. Fechner, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, S. Assylbekov, P. F. Harrison, Fred Gannaway, M. B. Smy, Shigeki Aoki, R. Terri, Koji Yamamoto, J. Marzec, N. Braam, Frédéric Dufour, J. Holeczek, S. Giffin, T. D. J. Haycock, Michal Dziewiecki, M. Shibata, N. J. Buchanan, L. Monfregola, H. Nishino, G. P. Ward, I. T. Lim, N. Grant, P. Gumplinger, A. Hyndman, P. de Perio, Yoshikazu Yamada, A. Hatzikoutelis, N. Honkanen, L. Kellet, C. A. Miller, P. Birney, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, T. Kikawa, R. L. Helmer, A. Minamino, Carlos A. Chavez, O. Drapier, F. Moreau, R. Hasanen, E. Monmarthe, Y. Kurosawa, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, Oleg Mineev, D. I. Scully, C. Touramanis, X. De La Broise, Antonio Ereditato, A. Cazes, J. A. Nowak, M. Malek, N. Yershov, A. Cervera, M. Ziembicki, M. Dziomba, V. Palladino, C. Ishihara, Kevin Scott McFarland, V. Paolone, P. Poffenberger, J. Dumarchez, M. Gallop, T. Strauss, T. Maruyama, J. Zalipska, Yasuhiro Makida, L. Stawnyczy, T. Nakadaira, A. Yamamoto, G.D. Barr, P. Colas, Scott Davis, M. Rooney, J. Y. Kim, Eiichi Hirose, S. J. Ives, M. Posiadala, Takayuki Tomaru, C. Strabel, M. G. Catanesi, J. Spitz, V. Kravtsov, K. Wong, R. Sulej, C. Mark, Robert Wilson, Takahiro Okamura, J. Argyriades, A.K. Ghosh, E. Rondio, P. Dinh Tran, J. Beucher, N. McCauley, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, D. Terhorst, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, W. Qian, C. J. Pearson, G. Kogan, J. Swierblewski, G. De Rosa, R. A. Owen, A. Badertscher, M. Macaire, Y. Takenaga, A. Konaka, J. Kameda, P. Przewlocki, Yusuke Koshio, B. E. Berger, Lester D.R. Thompson, F. Druillole, Ken Sakashita, M. Mezzetto, C. Angelsen, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, M. Cadabeschi, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, H. Kakuno, R. Bradford, Leonid Kurchaninov, J. R. Wilson, K. Sasaki, M. Bryant, D. Pierrepont, A. Murakami, Yu. Kudenko, D. Bishop, S. Sooriyakumaran, M. Usseglio, Justin Albert, N. Kulkarni, N. Abgrall, S. Greenwood, C. Hearty, Suyong Choi, Alastair Grant, Richard J.H. Smith, G. Mituka, M. Thorpe, F. Pierre, Yutaka Yamanoi, Hiroshi Yamaoka, A. Marchionni, R. A. Wendell, Vincenzo Berardi, Ewart W. Blackmore, P. T. Le, T. Kobayashi, S. Di Luise, A. Curioni, Tomoko Ariga, P. Baron, J. L. Ritou, S. Koike, M. Lenckowski, G. Vasseur, B. Still, M. Pfleger, K. B. Fransham, Masashi Tanaka, C. Hansen, T. B. Lawson, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, K. P. Lee, M. Day, Robert Henderson, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, Z. Williamson, M. Iida, H. Kaji, Katsuki Hiraide, K. Olchanski, M. Ravonel, Michel Raymond, G. Christodoulou, K. Nakamura, B. Hartfiel, Leigh H. Whitehead, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, T. Sekiguchi, Tatsushi Nakamoto, M. Besnier, G. Ganetis, Gavin Davies, L. Ludovici, C. Cavata, M. Sorel, S. Hastings, M. D. Haigh, C. W. Walter, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Electronique, des Détecteurs et d'Informatique pour la Physique (ex SEDI) (DEDIP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), T2K, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, Palladino, Vittorio, Département d'Electronique, des Détecteurs et d'Informatique (ex SEDI) (DEDI), Abgrall, Nicolas, Argyriades, Jeremy, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Dufour, Fanny, Ferrero, Andréa, Haesler, Alexis, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, and Wikstrom, Gustav
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutrino oscillation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, ddc:500.2, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Long baseline, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Neutrinos, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, QC, Physics, T2K, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, J-PARC, Super-Kamiokande, Física, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Lepton
Abstract: The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Its main goal is to measure the last unknown lepton sector mixing angle {\theta}_{13} by observing {\nu}_e appearance in a {\nu}_{\mu} beam. It also aims to make a precision measurement of the known oscillation parameters, {\Delta}m^{2}_{23} and sin^{2} 2{\theta}_{23}, via {\nu}_{\mu} 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., Comment: 33 pages, 32 figures, Submitted and accepted by NIM A. Editor: Prof. Chang Kee Jung, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook, chang.jung@sunysb.edu, 631-632-8108 Submit Edited to remove line numbers
Published: 2011
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30. Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with the MINOS far detector

Author: D. G. Michael, H. R. Gallagher, J. K. Nelson, G. M. Irwin, D. A. Harris, John C. Mitchell, Carlos Escobar, A. C. Weber, S. Childress, R. K. Plunkett, D. A. Jensen, M. Bishai, G. J. Feldman, M. D. Messier, T. Yang, J. Ratchford, C. D. Moore, M. C. Sanchez, N. Mayer, Christopher G. White, C. Rosenfeld, P. Adamson, V. A. Ryabov, C. Backhouse, N. Grant, L. Whitehead, M. Orchanian, P. Lucas, K. Grzelak, J. H. Cobb, V. K. Semenov, G. Tzanakos, Douglas Wright, S. M S Kasahara, D. S. Ayres, H. A. Rubin, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, G. Koizumi, R. Pittam, S. Budd, G. Tinti, Xian-Rong Huang, Gregory J Pawloski, D. J. Boehnlein, G. J. Bock, Z. Krahn, M. V. Diwan, A. Holin, C. James, Harvey B Newman, Sacha E Kopp, J. Ilic, L. Corwin, S. L. Mufson, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, R. J. Nichol, R. Gran, D. J. Auty, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, L. Mualem, R. Hatcher, M. Kordosky, Karol Lang, Andrew Blake, M. V. Frohne, D. Bogert, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, W. A. Mann, R. A. Gomes, Alec Habig, P. A. Rodrigues, W. P. Oliver, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, G. Lefeuvre, P. Schreiner, T. Kafka, J. Urheim, E. Falk, R. Toner, M. Dorman, C. R. Bower, Warner A. Miller, B. Rebel, J. R. Meier, D. E. Jaffe, M. Zois, Niki Saoulidou, R. Zwaska, G. F. Pearce, J. A. Musser, A. E. Kreymer, Marvin L Marshak, Philip Harris, D. Cherdack, A. Sousa, Matthew L Strait, Brajesh C Choudhary, J. Schneps, N. E. Devenish, P. J. Litchfield, R. C. Webb, I. Z. Danko, Joao A B Coelho, J. Hartnell, R. B. Patterson, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. Hylen, A. M. McGowan, M. C. Goodman, L. Loiacono, W. Smart, J. P. Cravens, R. Mehdiyev, J. K. De Jong, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, T. Patzak, John Miller, Juergen Thomas, J. J. Evans, S. J. Coleman, J. M. Paley, P. Gouffon, B. Viren, R. L. Talaga, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Particle physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], CPT symmetry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Lorentz covariance, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Fermilab, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Neutrino detector, MINOS, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: We searched for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS far detector neutrino rate. Such a signal would be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the Standard-Model Extension framework. It also would be the first detection of a perturbative effect to conventional neutrino mass oscillations. We found no evidence for this sidereal signature and the upper limits placed on the magnitudes of the Lorentz and CPT violating coefficients describing the theory are an improvement by factors of $20-510$ over the current best limits found using the MINOS near detector., 5 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2010
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31. Neutrino and antineutrino inclusive charged-current cross section measurements with the MINOS near detector

Author: David Petyt, D. E. Jaffe, John Marshall, J. K. De Jong, D. G. Michael, M. Kordosky, M. D. Messier, Andrew Blake, A. C. Weber, Christopher G. White, Peter D. Barnes, H. R. Gallagher, D. A. Harris, B. Viren, N. Mayer, P. Schreiner, S. R. Mishra, G. Tzanakos, R. L. Talaga, G. Koizumi, R. J. Nichol, Matthew L Strait, S. M S Kasahara, N. Tagg, T. Osiecki, A. R. Erwin, G.D. Barr, P. Stamoulis, A. Sousa, J. Schneps, I. Z. Danko, J. K. Nelson, K. Zhang, P. Lucas, Z. Krahn, Joao A B Coelho, Alec Habig, J. J. Kim, R. B. Patterson, N. E. Devenish, D. A. Jensen, Ž Pavlović, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Juergen Thomas, R. A. Rameika, P. J. Litchfield, Karol Lang, A. E. Kreymer, Mcd Sanchez, John C. Mitchell, J. J. Evans, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, Marvin L Marshak, L. Mualem, A. Holin, K. Grzelak, S. Childress, H. A. Rubin, R. P. Litchfield, S. J. Coleman, R. Ospanov, Caleb Smith, Ken Heller, C. D. Moore, J. M. Paley, D. J. Auty, A. M. McGowan, P. Gouffon, N. West, Warner A. Miller, V. A. Ryabov, P. A. Rodrigues, M. Watabe, D. S. Ayres, C. Backhouse, Philip Harris, G. J. Bock, E. Falk, D. J. Koskinen, T. Kafka, R. Pittam, Gregory J Pawloski, R. Armstrong, Douglas Wright, W. P. Oliver, M. V. Frohne, Jorge G. Morfin, S. L. Mufson, C. James, D. Cherdack, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, R. Toner, B. Rebel, M. Dorman, T. C. Nicholls, W. A. Mann, A. Godley, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, E. Grashorn, Carlos Escobar, K. E. Arms, B. C. Choudhary, T. Yang, R. K. Plunkett, D. Bhattacharya, C. Andreopoulos, J. Hartnell, L. Loiacono, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, R. Mehdiyev, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, R. Zwaska, A. J. Culling, M. Bishai, A. Rahaman, R. Hatcher, G. Tinti, C. Rosenfeld, John Derek Chapman, C. J. Metelko, J. R. Meier, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, J. Urheim, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, M. Zois, J. A. Musser, R. C. Webb, W. Smart, D. Bogert, V. A. Tsarev, V. K. Semenov, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, D. J. Boehnlein, Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. Hylen, M. C. Goodman, Harvey B Newman, M. V. Diwan, T. M. Raufer, G. M. Irwin, and G. J. Feldman
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Cross section (physics), MINOS, Antimatter, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Fermilab, Neutrino, Charged current, Lepton
Abstract: The energy dependence of the neutrino-iron and antineutrino-iron inclusive charged-current cross sections and their ratio have been measured using a high-statistics sample with the MINOS Near Detector exposed to the NuMI beam from the Main Injector at Fermilab. Neutrino and antineutrino fluxes were determined using a low hadronic energy subsample of charged-current events. We report measurements of neutrino-Fe (antineutrinoFe) cross section in the energy range 3-50 GeV (5-50 GeV) with precision of 2-8% (3-9%) and their ratio which is measured with precision 2-8%. The data set spans the region from low energy, where accurate measurements are sparse, up to the high-energy scaling region where the cross section is well understood., accepted by PRD
Published: 2010

32. Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS far detector

Author: R. Toner, B. Rebel, R. Ospanov, K. E. Arms, A. E. Kreymer, H. R. Gallagher, D. A. Harris, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, D. E. Jaffe, N. Mayer, Marvin L Marshak, G. Tzanakos, J. Hartnell, G. J. Bock, C. Rosenfeld, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, G. Koizumi, G. M. Irwin, Ken Heller, G. J. Feldman, J. J. Evans, B. R. Becker, P. Lucas, T. Osiecki, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, M. C. Sanchez, Philip Harris, J. Urheim, J. Reichenbacher, M. D. Messier, R. Mehdiyev, A. Sousa, Christopher G. White, M. Kordosky, R. J. Nichol, N. E. Devenish, C. R. Bower, M. Zois, P. J. Litchfield, A. Holin, S. Childress, Harvey B Newman, Andrew Blake, R. B. Patterson, J. K. De Jong, J. A. Musser, Alec Habig, K. Korman, A. Rahaman, T. Patzak, P. Gouffon, B. Viren, E. W. Grashorn, John C. Mitchell, C. D. Moore, J. H. Cobb, D. J. Auty, John J. Barnett, R. L. Talaga, H. A. Rubin, J. K. Nelson, A. M. McGowan, D. A. Jensen, K. Grzelak, Douglas Wright, N. Tagg, B. Speakman, Warner A. Miller, John Marshall, Matthew L Strait, G.D. Barr, T. H. Fields, R. Pittam, R. Armstrong, P. Stamoulis, W. P. Oliver, R. C. Webb, Brajesh C Choudhary, S. L. Mufson, T. C. Nicholls, D. Cherdack, V. A. Ryabov, M. V. Frohne, M. Bishai, Juergen Thomas, P. A. Rodrigues, C. Backhouse, P. Vahle, M. Watabe, S. J. Coleman, T. Kafka, S. Cavanaugh, Scott Osprey, Gregory J Pawloski, W. Smart, Caleb Smith, R. Zwaska, A. J. Culling, E. Falk, Jorge G. Morfin, J. M. Paley, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, C. James, D. J. Boehnlein, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, G. Tinti, L. Mualem, M. Dorman, C. Andreopoulos, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, E. A. Peterson, K. Zhang, L. Loiacono, P. Schreiner, R. A. Rameika, D. Bogert, Karol Lang, Carlos Escobar, R. K. Plunkett, V. A. Tsarev, John Derek Chapman, D. G. Michael, C. J. Metelko, J. R. Meier, T. Yang, D. J. Koskinen, R. Hatcher, A. C. Weber, S. M S Kasahara, Z. Krahn, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, B. Bock, W. A. Mann, N. West, Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, D. S. Ayres, Stanley G. Wojcicki, A. Godley, J. Hylen, M. C. Goodman, J. Schneps, I. Z. Danko, M. V. Diwan, J. L. Thron, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Background radiations, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), muon, Neutrino, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Cosmic rays, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic ray muons, pion, cosmic ray detectors, and other elementary particle detectors, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], MINOS, Muon flux, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Intensity (heat transfer)
Abstract: The temperature of the upper atmosphere affects the height of primary cosmic ray interactions and the production of high-energy cosmic ray muons which can be detected deep underground. The MINOS far detector at Soudan MN, USA, has collected over 67 million cosmic ray induced muons. The underground muon rate measured over a period of five years exhibits a 4% peak-to-peak seasonal variation which is highly correlated with the temperature in the upper atmosphere. The coefficient, $\alpha_T$, relating changes in the muon rate to changes in atmospheric temperature was found to be: $\alpha_T = 0.874 \pm 0.009$ (stat.) $\pm 0.010$ (syst.). Pions and kaons in the primary hadronic interactions of cosmic rays in the atmosphere contribute differently to $\alpha_T$ due to the different masses and lifetimes. This allows the measured value of $\alpha_T$ to be interpreted as a measurement of the K/$\pi$ ratio for $E_{p}\gtrsim$\unit[7]{TeV} of $0.13 \pm 0.08$, consistent with the expectation from collider experiments., Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2010
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33. New constraints on muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

Author: Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, N. Tagg, R. Zwaska, G.D. Barr, C. Rosenfeld, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, D. Bogert, S. Budd, J. J. Evans, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, M. C. Goodman, A. E. Kreymer, J. Hartnell, D. S. Ayres, M. V. Diwan, Philip Harris, Marvin L Marshak, J. K. Nelson, P. Schreiner, P. Bhattarai, Juergen Thomas, D. Cherdack, W. Smart, D. A. Jensen, Ken Heller, M. Bishai, J. Urheim, C. R. Bower, R. P. Litchfield, C. Andreopoulos, R. Pittam, T. Yang, J. Ilic, P. Shanahan, M. C. Sanchez, M. Zois, H. R. Gallagher, L. Loiacono, G. M. Irwin, M. Orchanian, M. Kordosky, R. Ospanov, John Marshall, J. A. Musser, Andrew Blake, S. J. Coleman, Caleb Smith, W. A. Mann, A. Godley, M. V. Frohne, J. M. Paley, Brajesh C Choudhary, V. A. Ryabov, C. Backhouse, R. Toner, B. Rebel, D. A. Harris, K. Lang, N. Mayer, J. Boehm, K. Grzelak, J. K. De Jong, H. A. Rubin, G. J. Feldman, P. Lucas, Matthew L Strait, J. Schneps, R. B. Patterson, G. Tzanakos, S. K. Swain, G. Tinti, R. C. Webb, Gregory J Pawloski, I. Z. Danko, M. D. Messier, G. Koizumi, David Petyt, P. Gouffon, Jorge G. Morfin, Joao A B Coelho, P. A. Rodrigues, R. Mehdiyev, Christopher G. White, P. Vahle, A. M. McGowan, C. James, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, G. Lefeuvre, W. P. Oliver, S. Cavanaugh, D. J. Boehnlein, B. Viren, J. R. Meier, N. Graf, J. H. Cobb, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, T. Kafka, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, R. L. Talaga, G. J. Bock, M. Dorman, Xian-Rong Huang, G. F. Pearce, R. Hatcher, Carlos Escobar, R. K. Plunkett, Harvey B Newman, E. Falk, R. J. Nichol, R. A. Rameika, Alec Habig, D. E. Jaffe, M. Betancourt, John C. Mitchell, E. Grashorn, A. C. Weber, S. M S Kasahara, D. J. Auty, Z. Krahn, Warner A. Miller, Douglas Wright, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, L. Mualem, L. Corwin, S. L. Mufson, A. Sousa, N. E. Devenish, P. J. Litchfield, A. Holin, S. Childress, C. D. Moore, K. Zhang, and D. G. Michael
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino detector, MINOS, CP violation, Muon neutrino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Lepton
Abstract: This letter reports results from a search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions by the MINOS experiment based on a 7x10^20 protons-on-target exposure. Our observation of 54 candidate electron-neutrino events in the Far Detector with a background of 49.1+/-7.0(stat.)+/-2.7(syst.) events predicted by the measurements in the Near Detector requires 2sin^2(2theta_{13})sin^2(theta_{23}), 5 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2010
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34. Search for sterile neutrino mixing in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

Author: T. Yang, D. Bogert, Carlos Escobar, M. C. Sanchez, R. J. Nichol, P. Schreiner, R. K. Plunkett, A. Rahaman, T. Osiecki, J. Urheim, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, Xian-Rong Huang, A. Sousa, N. E. Devenish, Alec Habig, S. Childress, P. J. Litchfield, M. V. Diwan, D. G. Michael, J. A. Musser, D. E. Jaffe, M. Kordosky, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, John Derek Chapman, C. J. Metelko, C. D. Moore, John Marshall, D. J. Auty, Andrew Blake, R. Zwaska, J. R. Meier, D. Cherdack, M. Bishai, A. J. Culling, H. A. Rubin, S. J. Coleman, Warner A. Miller, R. C. Webb, Caleb Smith, C. Rosenfeld, William L. Barrett, P. Vahle, John C. Mitchell, Peter D. Barnes, Douglas Wright, J. M. Paley, P. Lucas, P. Shanahan, M. Orchanian, S. Cavanaugh, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, K. Grzelak, D. J. Boehnlein, J. H. Cobb, S. L. Mufson, A. Holin, C. Andreopoulos, R. Hatcher, A. E. Kreymer, G. Tinti, R. P. Litchfield, A. R. Erwin, W. A. Mann, A. Godley, A. C. Weber, J. Schneps, B. Viren, L. Loiacono, P. Gouffon, Marvin L Marshak, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, I. Z. Danko, R. L. Talaga, Ken Heller, W. P. Oliver, H. R. Gallagher, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, N. Tagg, S. M S Kasahara, E. Falk, G.D. Barr, Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, D. J. Koskinen, Z. Krahn, P. A. Rodrigues, M. Watabe, D. A. Harris, Brajesh C Choudhary, Matthew L Strait, J. Hylen, N. Mayer, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, L. Mualem, Juergen Thomas, V. A. Ryabov, P. Stamoulis, M. C. Goodman, C. Backhouse, T. Kafka, T. C. Nicholls, G. Tzanakos, Joao A B Coelho, Ž Pavlović, G. Koizumi, J. P. Cravens, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, K. Zhang, R. A. Rameika, Karol Lang, N. West, Gregory J Pawloski, Jorge G. Morfin, D. S. Ayres, C. James, J. Hartnell, W. Smart, R. Mehdiyev, M. Dorman, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, J. K. Nelson, D. A. Jensen, R. Ospanov, J. J. Evans, M. D. Messier, J. K. De Jong, G. M. Irwin, Christopher G. White, A. Marchionni, G. J. Feldman, Harvey B Newman, G. J. Bock, R. B. Patterson, R. Toner, B. Rebel, E. Grashorn, A. M. McGowan, Philip Harris, R. Pittam, and M. V. Frohne
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Solar neutrino problem, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino detector, MINOS, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: A search for depletion of the combined flux of active neutrino species over a 735 km baseline is reported using neutral-current interaction data recorded by the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam. Such a depletion is not expected according to conventional interpretations of neutrino oscillation data involving the three known neutrino flavors. A depletion would be a signature of oscillations or decay to postulated non-interacting "sterile" neutrinos, scenarios not ruled out by existing data. From an exposure of 3.18x10^{20} protons on target in which neutrinos of energies between ~500 MeV and 120 GeV are produced predominantly as nu_mu, the visible energy spectrum of candidate neutral-current reactions in the MINOS far detector is reconstructed. Comparison of this spectrum to that inferred from a similarly selected near detector sample shows that of the portion of the nu_mu flux observed to disappear in charged-current interaction data, the fraction that could be converting to a sterile state is less than 52% at 90% confidence level (C.L.). The hypothesis that active neutrinos mix with a single sterile neutrino via oscillations is tested by fitting the data to various models. In the particular four-neutrino models considered, the mixing angles theta_{24} and theta_{34} are constrained to be less than 11 degrees and 56 degrees at 90% C.L., respectively. The possibility that active neutrinos may decay to sterile neutrinos is also investigated. Pure neutrino decay without oscillations is ruled out at 5.4 standard deviations. For the scenario in which active neutrinos decay into sterile states concurrently with neutrino oscillations, a lower limit is established for the neutrino decay lifetime tau_3/m_3 > 2.1x10^{-12} s/eV at 90% C.L.., 18 pages, 17 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2010
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35. Search for Muon-Neutrino to Electron-Neutrino Transitions in MINOS

Author: B. Speakman, K. Zhang, M. V. Diwan, D. Cherdack, Karol Lang, M. Bishai, E. Falk, G. M. Irwin, E. Grashorn, P. A. Rodrigues, G. J. Feldman, M. Watabe, A. Belias, R. Hatcher, N. West, C. Andreopoulos, T. Kafka, D. G. Michael, D. E. Jaffe, A. Himmel, Z. Isvan, L. Loiacono, L. Mualem, R. Toner, H. R. Gallagher, B. Rebel, D. A. Harris, M. D. Messier, D. S. Ayres, G. Tinti, J. J. Evans, A. C. Weber, R. Zwaska, J. Boehm, Harvey B Newman, J. L. Thron, A. J. Culling, S. Childress, M. Betancourt, T. Yang, P. Schreiner, Christopher G. White, N. Mayer, A. Godley, A. Holin, C. Rosenfeld, S. M S Kasahara, T. C. Nicholls, C. D. Moore, H. Zheng, K. E. Arms, D. J. Koskinen, A. R. Erwin, C. Howcroft, G. Tzanakos, P. Adamson, L. Whitehead, Sacha E Kopp, J. K. De Jong, Douglas Wright, R. Gran, G. J. Bock, Z. Krahn, G. Koizumi, J. Schneps, W. Smart, S. L. Mufson, R. C. Webb, I. Z. Danko, Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy, Alec Habig, John Derek Chapman, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, D. J. Boehnlein, J. Urheim, R. J. Nichol, John C. Mitchell, C. R. Bower, C. J. Metelko, J. R. Meier, A. Rahaman, J. Reichenbacher, M. Zois, Philip Harris, K. Grzelak, J. K. Nelson, R. P. Litchfield, J. A. Musser, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, S. J. Coleman, Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. A. Jensen, D. Bogert, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, W. A. Mann, Brajesh C Choudhary, R. Ospanov, V. A. Tsarev, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, Caleb Smith, M. C. Goodman, R. B. Patterson, J. M. Paley, M. Dorman, A. M. McGowan, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, R. Mehdiyev, R. Pittam, V. A. Ryabov, C. Backhouse, M. V. Frohne, P. Gouffon, D. R. Ward, T. Patzak, Gregory J Pawloski, Jorge G. Morfin, C. James, B. Viren, R. L. Talaga, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, Juergen Thomas, A. Sousa, N. E. Devenish, P. J. Litchfield, D. J. Auty, Warner A. Miller, Carlos Escobar, R. K. Plunkett, P. Lucas, A. E. Kreymer, Marvin L Marshak, John Marshall, J. H. Cobb, B. R. Becker, M. C. Sanchez, Ken Heller, Xian-Rong Huang, Peter D. Barnes, David Petyt, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, Matthew L Strait, P. Stamoulis, Joao A B Coelho, Ž Pavlović, R. A. Rameika, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, M. Kordosky, Andrew Blake, H. A. Rubin, R. Armstrong, W. P. Oliver, D. Bhattacharya, J. Hartnell, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino mass and mixing, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Beams in particle accelerators, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Elementary particle, 01 natural sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), MINOS, Ordinary neutrinos (nuW bosons, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], CP violation, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Lepton
Abstract: This letter reports on a search for $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ transitions by the MINOS experiment based on a \unit[$3.14\times10^{20}$]{protons-on-target} exposure in the Fermilab NuMI beam. We observe 35 events in the Far Detector with a background of $27\pm 5 {\rm (stat.)} \pm 2 {\rm (syst.)$ events predicted by the measurements in the Near Detector. If interpreted in terms of $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillations, this 1.5 $\sigma$ excess of events is consistent with $\sin^{2}(2\theta_{13})$ comparable to the CHOOZ limit when $|\delmsq{}|$=\unit[2.43$\times 10^{-3}$] {${\rm eV^{2}}$} and \sinsq{23}=1.0 are assumed., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2009
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36. Sudden stratospheric warmings seen in MINOS deep underground muon data

Author: S. J. Coleman, Caleb Smith, J. M. Paley, R. P. Litchfield, A. Holin, A. A. Wehmann, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, P. A. Symes, A. Sousa, P. J. Litchfield, David Petyt, D. J. Boehnlein, D. J. Auty, N. Mayer, S. Kumaratunga, J. Urheim, R. Hatcher, M. V. Diwan, Warner A. Miller, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, J. J. Kim, D. G. Michael, N. Tagg, A. Himmel, Brajesh C Choudhary, L. Mualem, G.D. Barr, N. West, Alec Habig, P. Lucas, J. Smith, B. Baller, D. S. Ayres, G. Koizumi, Harvey B Newman, J. L. Thron, J. A. Musser, Richard J.H. Smith, J. J. Evans, T. M. Raufer, Z. Pavlovic, K. E. Arms, John Derek Chapman, D. Bogert, B. Speakman, D. Cherdack, Scott Osprey, Gregory J Pawloski, Jorge G. Morfin, G. M. Irwin, J. H. Cobb, S. R. Mishra, N. Grossman, K. Grzelak, C. J. Metelko, J. R. Meier, Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, M. Kordosky, A. Godley, W. Smart, M. Dierckxsens, J. Reichenbacher, Juergen Thomas, S. Childress, G. J. Feldman, R. Ospanov, C. Andreopoulos, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, John Marshall, L. Loiacono, Stanley G. Wojcicki, C. James, T. Yang, P. Gouffon, B. R. Becker, D. J. Koskinen, L. Miller, Andrew Blake, J. Boehm, R. C. Webb, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, P. A. Rodrigues, J. A. Thompson, J. K. De Jong, E. Grashorn, M. Ishitsuka, M. C. Sanchez, S. M. Seun, Carlos Escobar, M. Watabe, A. Belias, R. J. Nichol, M. Dorman, B. Viren, R. K. Plunkett, M. C. Goodman, D. E. Jaffe, H. R. Gallagher, C. D. Moore, J. K. Nelson, Peter D. Barnes, Niki Saoulidou, A. M. McGowan, H. A. Rubin, D. A. Harris, K. Ruddick, T. Kafka, Matthew L Strait, G. F. Pearce, D. A. Jensen, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, P. Stamoulis, M. D. Messier, R. L. Talaga, P. Schreiner, Christopher G. White, C. W. Peck, K. Zhang, J. Schneps, W. A. Mann, M. V. Frohne, Karol Lang, M. Bishai, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, S. A. Dytman, R. Armstrong, W. P. Oliver, Philip Harris, Douglas Wright, A. E. Kreymer, Marvin L Marshak, A. C. Weber, G. Tzanakos, D. Bhattacharya, R. Pittam, J. Hartnell, M. A. Tavera, G. Tinti, John J. Barnett, T. C. Nicholls, S. L. Mufson, G. J. Bock, S. M S Kasahara, B. Rebel, A. Rahaman, R. Zwaska, A. J. Culling, C. Rosenfeld, P. Adamson, R. A. Rameika, E. Buckley-Geer, and E. Falk
Subjects: Physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic ray muons, Cosmic ray, Atmospheric sciences, Atmospheric temperature, Troposphere, Atmosphere, Geophysics, MINOS, Climatology, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Stratosphere, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract: The rate of high energy cosmic ray muons as measured underground is shown to be strongly correlated with upper-air temperatures during short-term atmospheric (10-day) events. The effects are seen by correlating data from the MINOS underground detector and temperatures from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts during the winter periods from 2003-2007. This effect provides an independent technique for the measurement of meteorological conditions and presents a unique opportunity to measure both short and long-term changes in this important part of the atmosphere. Copyright 2009 by the American Geophysical Union.
Published: 2009

37. The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator

Author: André Rubbia, H. R. Gallagher, A. Bell, A. Meregaglia, J. Dobson, P. Guzowski, T. Yang, C. Andreopoulos, F. Cavanna, D. Naples, M. Whalley, D. Bhattacharya, Pauli Kehayias, S. A. Dytman, G. F. Pearce, and R. Hatcher
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Monte Carlo generator, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Neutrino interaction, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Neutrino-induced hadronization, Neutrino, Bibliography, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Neutrino interaction, Neutrino-induced hadronization, Software system, Instrumentation, Energy (signal processing), Event generator, Generator (mathematics)
Abstract: GENIE is a new neutrino event generator for the experimental neutrino physics community. The goal of the project is to develop a `canonical' neutrino interaction physics Monte Carlo whose validity extends to all nuclear targets and neutrino flavors from MeV to PeV energy scales. Currently, emphasis is on the few-GeV energy range, the challenging boundary between the non-perturbative and perturbative regimes, which is relevant for the current and near future long-baseline precision neutrino experiments using accelerator-made beams. The design of the package addresses many challenges unique to neutrino simulations and supports the full life-cycle of simulation and generator-related analysis tasks. GENIE is a large-scale software system, consisting of 120,000 lines of C++ code, featuring a modern object-oriented design and extensively validated physics content. The first official physics release of GENIE was made available in August 2007, and at the time of the writing of this article, the latest available version was v2.4.4., Comment: 36 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A
Published: 2009
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38. First results from the Soudan 2 proton decay experiment

Author: L. E. Price, J.H. Cobb, G. F. Pearce, D. Rosen, L. M. Tupper, Donald H. Perkins, D. Roback, C.B. Brooks, B. Saitta, R. N. Gray, K. Ruddick, P.D. Shield, A. Napier, J. L. Thron, P. J. Litchfield, D. P. Benjamin, M. Lowe, C. Garcia-Garcia, M. A. Thomson, R. H. Giles, G.D. Barr, J. Kochocki, F. V. Lopez, J. W. Dawson, David Ja Cockerill, L. McMaster, J. Schneps, Marvin L Marshak, K. A. Johns, H. Courant, J. L. Schlereth, M. C. Goodman, W. W.M. Allison, T. Kafka, D. Schmid, I. Ambats, S. Heppelmann, D. J. Jankowski, L. Balka, R. H. Milburn, V. W. Edwards, G. J. Alner, W. P. Oliver, N. Sundaralingam, E. A. Peterson, B. Dahlin, Warner A. Miller, William L. Barrett, W. A. Mann, N. P. Longley, N. West, D. S. Ayres, S. J. Werkema, P. M. Border, N. Hill, Edward May, Michael Shupe, S. M. S. Kasahara, and T. H. Fields
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Proton decay, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: First results on contained neutrino interactions are presented from the Soudan 2 proton decay experiment. 20 neutrino events have been found in a fiducial exposure of 0.29 kton years.
Published: 1991
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39. Search for Active Neutrino Disappearance Using Neutral-Current Interactions in the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment

Author: P. Adamson, C. Andreopoulos, K. E. Arms, R. Armstrong, D. J. Auty, D. S. Ayres, C. Backhouse, B. Baller, G. Barr, W. L. Barrett, B. R. Becker, A. Belias, R. H. Bernstein, D. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, G. J. Bock, J. Boehm, D. J. Boehnlein, D. Bogert, C. Bower, E. Buckley-Geer, S. Cavanaugh, J. D. Chapman, D. Cherdack, S. Childress, B. C. Choudhary, J. H. Cobb, S. J. Coleman, A. J. Culling, J. K. de Jong, M. Dierckxsens, M. V. Diwan, M. Dorman, S. A. Dytman, C. O. Escobar, J. J. Evans, E. Falk Harris, G. J. Feldman, M. V. Frohne, H. R. Gallagher, A. Godley, M. C. Goodman, P. Gouffon, R. Gran, E. W. Grashorn, N. Grossman, K. Grzelak, A. Habig, D. Harris, P. G. Harris, J. Hartnell, R. Hatcher, K. Heller, A. Himmel, A. Holin, L. Hsu, J. Hylen, G. M. Irwin, M. Ishitsuka, D. E. Jaffe, C. James, D. Jensen, T. Kafka, S. M. S. Kasahara, J. J. Kim, M. S. Kim, G. Koizumi, S. Kopp, M. Kordosky, D. J. Koskinen, S. K. Kotelnikov, A. Kreymer, S. Kumaratunga, K. Lang, J. Ling, P. J. Litchfield, R. P. Litchfield, L. Loiacono, P. Lucas, J. Ma, W. A. Mann, A. Marchionni, M. L. Marshak, J. S. Marshall, N. Mayer, A. M. McGowan, J. R. Meier, M. D. Messier, C. J. Metelko, D. G. Michael, W. H. Miller, S. R. Mishra, C. D. Moore, J. Morfín, L. Mualem, S. Mufson, S. Murgia, J. Musser, D. Naples, J. K. Nelson, H. B. Newman, R. J. Nichol, T. C. Nicholls, J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux, W. P. Oliver, R. Ospanov, J. Paley, V. Paolone, A. Para, T. Patzak, Ž. Pavlović, G. Pawloski, G. F. Pearce, C. W. Peck, D. A. Petyt, R. Pittam, R. K. Plunkett, A. Rahaman, R. A. Rameika, T. M. Raufer, B. Rebel, J. Reichenbacher, P. A. Rodrigues, C. Rosenfeld, H. A. Rubin, V. A. Ryabov, M. C. Sanchez, N. Saoulidou, J. Schneps, P. Schreiner, P. Shanahan, W. Smart, C. Smith, A. Sousa, B. Speakman, P. Stamoulis, M. Strait, N. Tagg, R. L. Talaga, M. A. Tavera, J. Thomas, M. A. Thomson, J. L. Thron, G. Tinti, I. Trostin, V. A. Tsarev, G. Tzanakos, J. Urheim, P. Vahle, B. Viren, D. R. Ward, M. Watabe, A. Weber, R. C. Webb, A. Wehmann, N. West, C. White, S. G. Wojcicki, D. M. Wright, T. Yang, K. Zhang, R. Zwaska, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, etc, Neutrino mass and mixing, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutral current, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, right-handed neutrinos, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutral currents, MINOS, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Baseline (configuration management), Non-standard-model neutrinos
Abstract: We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between muon neutirnos and a sterile particle. No anomalous depletion in the reconstructed energy spectrum is observed. Assuming oscillations occur at a single mass-squared splitting, a fit to the neutral- and charged-current energy spectra limits the fraction of muon neutrino oscillating to a sterile neutrino to be below 0.68 at 90% confidence level. A less stringent limit due to a possible contribution to the measured neutral-current event rate at the far site from electron neutrino appearance at the current experimental limit is also presented., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2008
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40. The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment

Author: J. J. Grudzinski, R. J. Nichol, Q. K. Wu, N. Tagg, R. Piteira, L. E. Price, G.D. Barr, T. Osiecki, B. R. Becker, A. Sousa, Francisco Yumiceva, A. Byon-Wagner, A. C. Weber, Alec Habig, D.S. Damiani, M. C. Sanchez, John Miller, M. A. Barker, M. Ignatenko, Carlos Escobar, J. K. Nelson, P. J. Litchfield, R. K. Plunkett, Juergen Thomas, J. Trevor, D. Pushka, H. R. Gallagher, D. E. Reyna, Raymond Lee, S. Childress, E. Maher, J. Boehm, E. Falk Harris, C. D. Moore, J. Kilmer, P. Adamson, M. Proga, M. V. Frohne, P. Gouffon, D. Indurthy, D. A. Harris, R. C. Webb, J. A. Thompson, S. M. Seun, M. Dorman, T. Alexopoulos, C. Rosenfeld, S. M S Kasahara, L. Wai, W.W.M. Allison, S. Boyd, E. A. Peterson, R. Ospanov, P. S. Miyagawa, B. Baller, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, B. Bock, M. Kostin, Harvey B Newman, J. L. Thron, P. N. Smith, M. Gebhard, B. Viren, Paul Schoessow, S.R. Mishra, T. Bergfeld, Yu. A. Gornushkin, T. M. Raufer, H. Ping, K. Grzelak, A. L. Read, W. Smart, M. D. Messier, A. M. McGowan, K. Ruddick, A. S. Ladran, W. A. Mann, John Oliver, G. I. Merzon, N. West, John Marshall, J. Urheim, S. Madani, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, M. Zois, J. A. Musser, A. De Santo, D. J. Koskinen, P. Stamoulis, Ž Pavlović, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, S. Murgia, A. Lebedev, M. Vakili, Warner A. Miller, G. M. Irwin, Weonjong Lee, D. Rahman, S. Avvakumov, Randall White, Gary Drake, A. D. Marino, H. A. Rubin, D. S. Ayres, W. Luebke, Christopher G. White, A. Belias, Y. Ho, R. L. Talaga, J. C. Yun, J. J. Evans, Carole C. Perry, L. Jenner, F. A. Nezrick, G. J. Feldman, E. Buckley-Geer, P. A. Symes, G. Tzanakos, V.A. Onuchin, C. Arroyo, A. Godley, W. P. Oliver, P. Lucas, R. Shivane, N. Felt, Marvin L Marshak, C. P. Ward, C. Howcroft, G. Koizumi, J. D. Cossairt, H. Zheng, D. R. Ward, H. J. Kang, C. Velissaris, B. C. Choudhary, T. Durkin, N. P. Longley, P. Schreiner, Ken Heller, R. H. Milburn, D. Krakauer, Reinhard Schwienhorst, T. Patzak, J. H. Cobb, B. Speakman, Kevin Anderson, S. J. Coleman, Hyun-Chul Kim, Peter D. Barnes, D. Bhattacharya, N. Grossman, M. J. Murtagh, R. Ford, J. Hartnell, Caleb Smith, E. P. Hartouni, E. Beall, D. A. Jensen, M. S. Kim, S. Kumaratunga, K. Vaziri, J. M. Paley, B. C. Barish, R. A. Rameika, J. W. Dawson, E. Tetteh-Lartey, M. Watabe, Andrew Blake, G. J. Alner, R. Ducar, V. J. Guarino, T. Kafka, R. Trendler, T. C. Nicholls, T. H. Fields, A. A. Wehmann, C. Andreopoulos, Philip Harris, M. Bishai, C. W. Peck, S. Chernichenko, H. Courant, Karol Lang, D. M. DeMuth, Ruben Saakyan, Sacha E Kopp, D. G. Michael, Thomas R. Chase, J. McDonald, O. Fackler, T. Joffe-Minor, W. G. Yan, R. Morse, A. J. Culling, D. Crane, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, V. A. Ryabov, J. Gogos, E. Grashorn, V. Makeev, Jorge G. Morfin, C. James, M. P. Andrews, Anna Pla-Dalmau, R. P. Litchfield, N. Hill, Ji-Yong Liu, P.D. Shield, M. Dierckxsens, V. K. Semenov, P. Vahle, D. J. Boehnlein, C. Laughton, M. Kordosky, V. Smirnitsky, D. Bogert, C. Nelson, A. Marchionni, I. Trostin, G. J. Bock, Alexander Terekhov, L. Mualem, V. A. Tsarev, J. K. de Jong, P. M. Border, J. Hanson, R. Halsall, T. Yang, Douglas Wright, Anatael Cabrera, S. L. Mufson, M. Libkind, V. Bocean, B. Rebel, J. M. Swan, N. Pearson, V. Verebryusov, R. Hatcher, John Derek Chapman, J. R. Meier, P. Sullivan, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, M. C. Goodman, M. V. Diwan, Keith Bechtol, D. A. Petyt, A. Stefanik, S. K. Kotelnikov, A. R. Erwin, J. Schneps, R. Andrews, R. Zwaska, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NuMI, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Solar neutrino problem, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutrino detector, MINOS, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the "atmospheric neutrino" sector associated with muon neutrino disappearance. This long-baseline experiment measures neutrino interactions in Fermilab's NuMI neutrino beam with a near detector at Fermilab and again 735 km downstream with a far detector in the Soudan Underground Laboratory in northern Minnesota. The two detectors are magnetized steel-scintillator tracking calorimeters. They are designed to be as similar as possible in order to ensure that differences in detector response have minimal impact on the comparisons of event rates, energy spectra and topologies that are essential to MINOS measurements of oscillation parameters. The design, construction, calibration and performance of the far and near detectors are described in this paper., Comment: Revised according to referee's comments. 91 pages, 43 figures, submitted to NIM. arXiv figures are greatly compressed, please see NIM itself or the Fermilab library server for full resolution figures
Published: 2008
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41. Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Beam

Author: Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, M. C. Goodman, P. A. Symes, S. K. Kotelnikov, V. A. Ryabov, J. Schneps, S. A. Dytman, M. V. Diwan, Gregory J Pawloski, Jorge G. Morfin, R. A. Rameika, C. James, A. Holin, N. Tagg, R. Pittam, G.D. Barr, G. M. Irwin, K. E. Arms, R. P. Litchfield, M. Kordosky, A. Godley, John Marshall, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, G. J. Feldman, Andrew Blake, A. Sousa, C. P. Ward, P. J. Litchfield, Philippe Lucas, John Miller, Brajesh C Choudhary, Juergen Thomas, Peter D. Barnes, S. Murgia, M. Bishai, D. J. Auty, B. Baller, M. D. Messier, G. I. Merzon, W. Smart, Warner A. Miller, N. West, G. Tinti, P. Vahle, Harvey B Newman, J. L. Thron, H. A. Rubin, D. S. Ayres, S. Cavanaugh, P. Adamson, D. J. Boehnlein, J. J. Evans, M. Dierckxsens, R. Armstrong, D. R. Ward, T. Patzak, A. C. Weber, W. P. Oliver, P. Stamoulis, A. Rahaman, T. C. Nicholls, G. J. Bock, J. K. de Jong, A. E. Kreymer, B. Speakman, E. A. Peterson, S. M S Kasahara, R. Ospanov, Marvin L Marshak, S. J. Coleman, S. M. Seun, M. Dorman, M. Ishitsuka, Caleb Smith, A. M. McGowan, K. Ruddick, Niki Saoulidou, B. Rebel, G. F. Pearce, J. Boehm, Ken Heller, J. M. Paley, S. Kumaratunga, E. Buckley-Geer, P. Gouffon, B. R. Becker, A. A. Wehmann, P. A. Rodrigues, M. A. Tavera, M. Watabe, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, M. C. Sanchez, R. C. Webb, J. A. Thompson, C. Rosenfeld, R. Zwaska, A. J. Culling, Douglas Wright, D. Bogert, T. Kafka, W. A. Mann, D. Cherdack, B. Viren, A. Marchionni, J. K. Nelson, I. Trostin, Philip Harris, C. Andreopoulos, D. A. Jensen, M. S. Kim, R. L. Talaga, S. L. Mufson, L. Loiacono, J. J. Kim, D. E. Jaffe, V. A. Tsarev, David Petyt, A. Belias, Matthew L Strait, J. H. Cobb, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, N. Grossman, Ž Pavlović, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Carlos Escobar, R. K. Plunkett, E. Grashorn, K. Grzelak, P. Schreiner, John Derek Chapman, R. J. Nichol, C. J. Metelko, J. R. Meier, Alec Habig, J. Urheim, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, S. Childress, R. Hatcher, E. Falk Harris, C. D. Moore, J. A. Musser, C. White, M. V. Frohne, T. Yang, A. Himmel, L. Mualem, D. G. Michael, M. Zois, N. Mayer, C. W. Peck, G. Tzanakos, K. Zhang, G. Koizumi, Karol Lang, J. Reichenbacher, D. J. Koskinen, H. R. Gallagher, D. A. Harris, D. Bhattacharya, J. Hartnell, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Particle physics, Neutrino mass and mixing, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Ordinary neutrinos (nuW bosons, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Beams in particle accelerators, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Spectrometers and spectroscopic techniques, Neutrino detector, MINOS, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: This letter reports new results from the MINOS experiment based on a two-year exposure to muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Our data are consistent with quantum mechanical oscillations of neutrino flavor with mass splitting $|\Delta m^2|=(2.43\pm 0.13)\times10^{-3}$ eV$^2$ (68% confidence level) and mixing angle $\sin^2(2\theta)>0.90$ (90% confidence level). Our data disfavor two alternative explanations for the disappearance of neutrinos in flight, namely neutrino decays into lighter particles and quantum decoherence of neutrinos, at the 3.7 and 5.7 standard deviation levels, respectively., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2008
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42. Study of muon neutrino disappearance using the Fermilab Main Injector neutrino beam

Author: A. E. Kreymer, William L. Barrett, D. E. Jaffe, P. Shanahan, Carlos Escobar, B. Bock, Marvin L Marshak, R. K. Plunkett, E. Buckley-Geer, W. A. Mann, D. Cherdack, Ken Heller, John Derek Chapman, T. Osiecki, A. Sousa, John Marshall, R. H. Milburn, A. Holin, E. P. Hartouni, G. I. Merzon, N. West, C. J. Metelko, J. R. Meier, V. Smirnitsky, C. Andreopoulos, P. J. Litchfield, D. S. Ayres, P. Lucas, P. Gouffon, S. Murgia, J. J. Evans, D. E. Reyna, A. Himmel, L. Loiacono, B. Viren, L. Mualem, B. Speakman, V. A. Ryabov, L. Jenner, D. J. Auty, Raymond Lee, P. M. Border, Matthew L Strait, C. W. Peck, S. Childress, A. Lebedev, R. L. Talaga, M. Ishitsuka, R. J. Nichol, Harvey B Newman, Karol Lang, E. Falk Harris, J. H. Cobb, Peter D. Barnes, C. D. Moore, N. Grossman, T. Yang, P. Adamson, S. J. Coleman, Caleb Smith, David Petyt, A. D. Marino, R. A. Rameika, T. M. Raufer, H. Ping, Warner A. Miller, T. H. Fields, J. M. Paley, Douglas Wright, Anatael Cabrera, A. A. Wehmann, Jorge G. Morfin, T. Durkin, G. M. Irwin, A. Godley, J. Gogos, Ž Pavlović, D. Bhattacharya, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, N. Tagg, Alec Habig, J. Hartnell, P. A. Rodrigues, Ji-Yong Liu, C. James, G. J. Feldman, M. Watabe, G.D. Barr, G. J. Bock, S. L. Mufson, B. Baller, D. J. Koskinen, J. K. de Jong, John Miller, P. A. Symes, Juergen Thomas, D. Bogert, T. C. Nicholls, D. R. Ward, T. Patzak, H. A. Rubin, K. E. Arms, R. Zwaska, A. J. Culling, E. Beall, T. Kafka, M. Kordosky, S. M. Seun, K. Grzelak, M. Dorman, R. C. Webb, J. A. Thompson, Ruben Saakyan, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, S. R. Mishra, D. Rahman, A. Marchionni, Andrew Blake, I. Trostin, Niki Saoulidou, R. Armstrong, W. P. Oliver, G. F. Pearce, R. Ford, S. Avvakumov, A. Belias, V. Verebryusov, R. P. Litchfield, A. Mislivec, R. Hatcher, E. A. Peterson, M. Bishai, Christopher P. Ward, B. R. Becker, D. G. Michael, Brajesh C Choudhary, A. R. Erwin, C. Rosenfeld, M. Zois, H. Zheng, V. A. Tsarev, G. Tinti, B. Rebel, J. Boehm, D. Indurthy, W. Smart, P. Schreiner, J. Urheim, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, J. A. Musser, V. K. Semenov, C. White, P. Vahle, S. Cavanaugh, D. Drakoulakos, D. J. Boehnlein, A. C. Weber, S. M S Kasahara, M. Dierckxsens, E. Grashorn, A. M. McGowan, K. Ruddick, R. Pittam, H. J. Kang, S. K. Kotelnikov, J. Schneps, M. V. Frohne, B. C. Barish, E. Tetteh-Lartey, J. K. Nelson, S. A. Dytman, M. V. Diwan, Philip Harris, D. A. Jensen, M. S. Kim, M. D. Messier, S. Kumaratunga, Mcd Sanchez, J. L. Thron, C. Howcroft, G. Tzanakos, G. Koizumi, M. A. Thomson, N. Mayer, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, R. Ospanov, J. Reichenbacher, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, M. C. Goodman, H. R. Gallagher, D. A. Harris, P. Stamoulis, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Fermilab, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino problem, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutrino detector, MINOS, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: We report the results of a search for muon-neutrino disappearance by the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search. The experiment uses two detectors separated by 734 km to observe a beam of neutrinos created by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data were collected in the first 282 days of beam operations and correspond to an exposure of 1.27e20 protons on target. Based on measurements in the Near Detector, in the absence of neutrino oscillations we expected 336 +/- 14 muon-neutrino charged-current interactions at the Far Detector but observed 215. This deficit of events corresponds to a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The deficit is energy dependent and is consistent with two-flavor neutrino oscillations according to delta m-squared = 2.74e-3 +0.44/-0.26e-3 eV^2 and sin^2(2 theta) > 0.87 at 68% confidence level., In submission to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2008
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43. Testing Lorentz Invariance and CPT Conservation with NuMI Neutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector

Author: K. Grzelak, A. Belias, T. C. Nicholls, A. E. Kreymer, E. Grashorn, Marvin L Marshak, C. Rosenfeld, P. Adamson, K. E. Arms, P. Schreiner, G. M. Irwin, D. E. Jaffe, John Marshall, A. C. Weber, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, R. Zwaska, A. J. Culling, S. L. Mufson, A. Rahaman, J. Urheim, G. J. Feldman, Ken Heller, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, W. Smart, R. Ospanov, P. Lucas, D. Bogert, S. M S Kasahara, M. A. Tavera, M. Zois, A. Sousa, J. Schneps, A. M. McGowan, D. G. Michael, B. Rebel, J. A. Musser, J. K. De Jong, H. A. Rubin, N. Grossman, M. Ishitsuka, P. J. Litchfield, John Derek Chapman, A. Holin, S. A. Dytman, M. D. Messier, S. Childress, P. Vahle, M. Kordosky, Carlos Escobar, S. Cavanaugh, P. Gouffon, S. Murgia, Jian Ma, M. A. Thomson, C. J. Metelko, Christopher G. White, R. J. Nichol, R. C. Webb, J. R. Meier, J. A. Thompson, Andrew Blake, R. K. Plunkett, D. Naples, R. Armstrong, D. J. Boehnlein, E. Falk Harris, M. Bishai, B. Baller, C. D. Moore, Stanley G. Wojcicki, W. P. Oliver, S. Kumaratunga, Alec Habig, D. J. Auty, Philip Harris, H. R. Gallagher, N. West, M. V. Frohne, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, T. Yang, M. C. Goodman, D. A. Harris, Matthew L Strait, M. V. Diwan, A. Himmel, C. W. Peck, L. Mualem, D. S. Ayres, K. Zhang, J. Boehm, R. Pittam, P. Stamoulis, D. Bhattacharya, J. J. Evans, J. Hartnell, J. K. Nelson, D. Cherdack, T. Patzak, Karol Lang, Ž Pavlović, Warner A. Miller, N. Mayer, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, R. Hatcher, B. Speakman, G. Tinti, William L. Barrett, D. A. Jensen, P. Shanahan, G. J. Bock, C. Andreopoulos, D. J. Koskinen, L. Loiacono, W. A. Mann, P. A. Rodrigues, M. Watabe, G. Tzanakos, T. Kafka, G. Koizumi, J. Reichenbacher, J. J. Kim, E. Buckley-Geer, R. A. Rameika, M. Dorman, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, B. R. Becker, R. P. Litchfield, M. C. Sanchez, Brajesh C Choudhary, Gregory J Pawloski, Jorge G. Morfin, C. James, David Petyt, T. M. Raufer, S. R. Mishra, S. J. Coleman, J. M. Paley, A. A. Wehmann, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, John Miller, Juergen Thomas, Harvey B Newman, J. L. Thron, B. Viren, R. L. Talaga, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Particle physics, Neutrino mass and mixing, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], CPT symmetry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Lorentz transformation, time reversal, Charge conjugation, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Lorentz covariance, Lorentz and Poincare invariance, 01 natural sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, and other discrete symmetries, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, MINOS, parity, symbols, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: A search for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS near detector neutrino data was performed. If present, this signature could be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as predicted by the effective field theory called the standard-model extension. No evidence for a sidereal signal in the data set was found, implying that there is no significant change in neutrino propagation that depends on the direction of the neutrino beam in a sun-centered inertial frame. Upper limits on the magnitudes of the Lorentz and CPT violating terms in the standard-model extension lie between 10-4 and 10-2 of the maximum expected, assuming a suppression of these signatures by a factor of 10-17. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2008
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44. FIRST MINOS RESULTS FROM THE NuMI BEAM

Author: G. F. Pearce
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, MINOS, Oscillation, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, NuMI, Beam (structure)
Published: 2007
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45. Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio at TeV energies with the MINOS detector

Author: V. A. Ryabov, R. Armstrong, W. P. Oliver, R. Pittam, T. H. Fields, Harvey B Newman, Jorge G. Morfin, C. James, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, M. V. Frohne, D. Indurthy, S. Murgia, N. Tagg, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, S. M. Seun, M. Dorman, T. Patzak, R. P. Litchfield, D. J. Auty, M. C. Goodman, G.D. Barr, Niki Saoulidou, T. Durkin, G. F. Pearce, A. Lebedev, B. C. Barish, G. A. Giurgiu, R. Zwaska, D. Cherdack, L. Mualem, D. Bhattacharya, A. J. Culling, E. Beall, B. Baller, Brajesh C Choudhary, J. Hartnell, J. K. De Jong, P. Lucas, A. Holin, S. K. Kotelnikov, D. Drakoulakos, T. M. Raufer, David Petyt, J. Schneps, John Miller, Juergen Thomas, Warner A. Miller, D. E. Jaffe, G. M. Irwin, B. Rebel, S. Kumaratunga, D. E. Reyna, V. K. Semenov, C. Andreopoulos, E. P. Hartouni, A. Mislivec, H. J. Kang, A. Marchionni, G. J. Feldman, M. Ishitsuka, R. C. Webb, S. R. Mishra, D. Rahman, M. V. Diwan, R. J. Nichol, A. M. McGowan, K. Ruddick, R. Piteira, E. Falk Harris, C. D. Moore, C. Howcroft, G. Tzanakos, Caleb Smith, J. M. Paley, J. A. Thompson, A. Godley, P. Vahle, A. Belias, S. Avvakumov, P. Adamson, R. H. Milburn, Mcd Sanchez, E. Tetteh-Lartey, A. A. Wehmann, T. C. Nicholls, John Marshall, G. Koizumi, B. R. Becker, D. J. Boehnlein, Douglas Wright, Anatael Cabrera, J. J. Evans, V. Smirnitsky, J. L. Thron, N. Mayer, W. Smart, H. Zheng, S. L. Mufson, M. Bishai, H. Ping, J. Reichenbacher, P. A. Symes, B. Speakman, D. J. Koskinen, K. Grzelak, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Philip Harris, P. M. Border, Ž Pavlović, P. Gouffon, C. Bungau, M. Kordosky, P. Stamoulis, P. Schreiner, T. Bergfeld, A. E. Kreymer, R. Ford, C. P. Ward, R. Lee, M. Watabe, B. Viren, D. Bogert, J. K. Nelson, I. Trostin, Marvin L Marshak, T. Kafka, J. Urheim, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, E. A. Peterson, S. Childress, H. R. Gallagher, D. A. Jensen, M. S. Kim, G. Tinti, K. E. Arms, D. A. Harris, G. I. Merzon, Ken Heller, Ruben Saakyan, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, J. A. Musser, Carlos Escobar, M. D. Messier, A. De Santo, N. West, C. White, C. W. Peck, R. A. Rameika, R. K. Plunkett, C. Rosenfeld, V. A. Tsarev, Q. K. Wu, Karol Lang, D. S. Ayres, P. S. Miyagawa, D. G. Michael, J. Gogos, Andrew Blake, Alec Habig, M. Zois, L. Jenner, R. Ospanov, J. Boehm, E. Buckley-Geer, T. Joffe-Minor, Jie Liu, G. J. Bock, A. D. Marino, V. Verebryusov, D. R. Ward, Peter D. Barnes, J. H. Cobb, R. Hatcher, N. Grossman, T. Osiecki, A. Sousa, Francisco Yumiceva, R. L. Talaga, A. R. Erwin, P. J. Litchfield, John Derek Chapman, J. R. Meier, T. Yang, M. Dierckxsens, C. Velissaris, E. Grashorn, A. C. Weber, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, B. Bock, W. A. Mann, S. M S Kasahara, H. A. Rubin, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MINOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Background radiations, Muon, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic ray, Charge (physics), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Magnetic field, Standard Model, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Nuclear physics, MINOS, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract: The 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking charge-separated cosmic ray muon data since the beginning of August, 2003 at a depth of 207 m.w.e. in the Soudan Underground Laboratory, Minnesota, USA. The data with both forward and reversed magnetic field running configurations were combined to minimize systematic errors in the determination of the underground muon charge ratio. When averaged, two independent analyses find the charge ratio underground to be Nμ+/Nμ-=1.374±0.004(stat)-0.010+0.012(sys). Using the map of the Soudan rock overburden, the muon momenta as measured underground were projected to the corresponding values at the surface in the energy range 1-7 TeV. Within this range of energies at the surface, the MINOS data are consistent with the charge ratio being energy independent at the 2 standard deviation level. When the MINOS results are compared with measurements at lower energies, a clear rise in the charge ratio in the energy range 0.3-1.0 TeV is apparent. A qualitative model shows that the rise is consistent with an increasing contribution of kaon decays to the muon charge ratio. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007
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46. First observations of separated atmosphericνμandν¯μevents in the MINOS detector

Author: P. A. Symes, J. Boehm, Douglas Wright, Anatael Cabrera, H. A. Rubin, D. Krakauer, S. Childress, S. L. Mufson, J. Urheim, W. P. Oliver, M. Bishai, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, A. Godley, Marvin L Marshak, C. Arroyo, C. Howcroft, R. Halsall, C.D. Moore, Z. Pavlovich, Ken Heller, H. Zheng, A. Lebedev, S. Chernichenko, J. A. Musser, S. Madani, G. Tzanakos, S. Kumaratunga, P. Stamoulis, T. H. Fields, D. Bogert, L. Mualem, A. L. Read, D. M. DeMuth, M. J. Murtagh, F. A. Nezrick, V. Verebryusov, C. White, T. Bergfeld, Thomas R. Chase, R. Rameika, W. G. Yan, R. Morse, D. Naples, A. J. Culling, D. Crane, M. V. Diwan, V. K. Semenov, G. Koizumi, C. Perry, A. Stefanik, P. Vahle, B. Speakman, A. De Santo, Randall White, E. Beall, W. Luebke, A. Wehmann, R. Ducar, D. J. Boehnlein, C. Laughton, J. Kilmer, R. Saakyan, M. Kordosky, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, B. R. Becker, R. H. Milburn, Carlos Escobar, B. Bock, R. Hatcher, J. McDonald, Andrew Blake, R. K. Plunkett, S. Murgia, M. C. Sanchez, Reinhard Schwienhorst, J. W. Dawson, C. Rosenfeld, M. Watabe, E. P. Hartouni, J. L. Thron, C. W. Peck, V. J. Guarino, J. Hanson, E. A. Peterson, R. P. Litchfield, Q. K. Wu, C. Nelson, I. Trostin, B. Baller, A. R. Erwin, R. C. Webb, Sacha E Kopp, J. A. Thompson, Robert H. Bernstein, H. R. Gallagher, R. Andrews, A. D. Marino, P. S. Miyagawa, R. Trendler, Alec Habig, M. A. Barker, H. Courant, Karol Lang, A. Belias, D. A. Harris, V. Bocean, P. Sullivan, T. Kafka, W. A. Mann, V. A. Tsarev, Theodoros Alexopoulos, C. Velissaris, S. Boyd, K. Grzelak, E. Grashorn, J. J. Grudzinski, M. A. Thomson, Paul Schoessow, David Petyt, C. Andreopoulos, H. Ping, M. Vakili, Yu. A. Gornushkin, Stanley G. Wojcicki, D. E. Reyna, P. J. Litchfield, Brajesh C Choudhary, John Marshall, R. Piteira, P.D. Shield, R. J. Nichol, J. Hylen, A. Para, J. M. Swan, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, W. Smart, D. J. Koskinen, S. R. Mishra, E. Buckley-Geer, P. Schreiner, Y. Ho, T. Yang, D. Rahman, E. Maher, M. C. Goodman, D. Bhattacharya, M. P. Andrews, S. Avvakumov, J. Hartnell, C. P. Ward, V.A. Onuchin, S. M. Seun, Warner A. Miller, M. Dorman, N. P. Longley, E. Falk Harris, P. Adamson, J. Schneps, M. Proga, D. R. Pushka, Niki Saoulidou, Peter D. Barnes, G. F. Pearce, D. R. Ward, T. Patzak, John Derek Chapman, V. A. Ryabov, D. G. Michael, J. Trevor, J. R. Meier, R. Lee, M. Gebhard, G. J. Alner, J. H. Cobb, T. C. Nicholls, R. Ford, V. Makeev, N. Grossman, Jorge G. Morfin, C. James, W. Y. Lee, N. Felt, J. Oliver, T. Osiecki, A. Sousa, Francisco Yumiceva, M. Dierckxsens, A. C. Weber, R. L. Talaga, T. Joffe-Minor, M. Ignatenko, G. I. Merzon, N. West, M. Zois, H. J. Kang, D. S. Ayres, S. M S Kasahara, L. Wai, Hyun-Chul Kim, L. Jenner, J. K. Nelson, D. A. Jensen, K. Vaziri, M. D. Messier, J. C. Yun, J. D. Cossairt, W.W.M. Allison, R. Ospanov, P. N. Smith, M. A. Libkind, J. Gogos, N. Hill, Ji-Yong Liu, G. J. Bock, T. Durkin, B. Rebel, L. E. Price, P. Lucas, J. J. Evans, M. Kostin, Harvey B Newman, T. M. Raufer, O. D. Fackler, G. M. Irwin, Kevin Anderson, R. Zwaska, A. Marchionni, G. J. Feldman, Caleb Smith, A. Byon-Wagner, A. Pla-Dalmau, J. M. Paley, V. Smirnitsky, P. M. Border, G. Drake, A. M. McGowan, K. Ruddick, N. Tagg, A. S. Ladran, G.D. Barr, E. Tetteh-Lartey, John Miller, Juergen Thomas, P. Gouffon, B. Viren, Philip Harris, M. V. Frohne, D. Indurthy, N. Pearson, and B. C. Barish
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Massless particle, Neutrino detector, MINOS, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Lepton
Abstract: The complete 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking data since the beginning of August 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters water-equivalent in the Soudan mine, Minnesota. This paper presents the first MINOS observations of muon neutrino and muon anti-neutrino charged-current atmospheric neutrino interactions based on an exposure of 418 days. The ratio of upward to downward-going events in the data is compared to the Monte Carlo expectation in the absence of neutrino oscillations giving: R_data(up/down)/R_MC(up/down) = 0.62^{+0.19}_{-0.14} (stat.) +- 0.02 (sys.). An extended maximum likelihood analysis of the observed L/E distributions excludes the null hypothesis of no neutrino oscillations at the 98 % confidence level. Using the curvature of the observed muons in the 1.3 T MINOS magnetic field muon neutrino and muon anti-neutrino interactions are separated. The ratio of muon neutrino to muon anti-neutrino events in the data is compared to the Monte Carlo expectation assuming neutrinos and anti-neutrinos oscillate in same manner giving: R_data(numubar/numu)/R_MC(numubar/numu) = 0.96^{+0.38}_{-0.27} (stat.) +- 0.15 (sys.), where the errors are the statistical and systematic uncertainties. Although the statistics are limited, this is the first direct observation of atmospheric neutrino interactions separately for muon neutrinos and muon anti-neutrinos.
Published: 2006
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47. Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam

Author: C. Velissaris, P. Stamoulis, A. Godley, A. E. Kreymer, E. Grashorn, B. Speakman, M. Gebhard, R. Piteira, D. J. Koskinen, J. Hanson, B. C. Choudhary, H. A. Rubin, N. P. Longley, C. W. Peck, F. A. Nezrick, Mcd Sanchez, T. Patzak, H. Courant, Karol Lang, V. Bocean, M. Dorman, N. Hill, R. Ford, G. Tzanakos, Douglas Wright, Anatael Cabrera, A. Holin, J. W. Dawson, D. G. Michael, M. Zois, M. P. Andrews, O. Fackler, T. Joffe-Minor, Marvin L Marshak, C. Howcroft, G. Koizumi, V. Smirnitsky, J. M. Swan, M. Watabe, R. Armstrong, W. P. Oliver, G. I. Merzon, N. West, Ken Heller, N. Mayer, E. A. Peterson, T. Kafka, P. A. Symes, S. M. Seun, D. S. Ayres, P. M. Border, J. Reichenbacher, Weonjong Lee, A. Stefanik, N. Tagg, S. L. Mufson, L. Jenner, E. P. Hartouni, J. J. Evans, Niki Saoulidou, G. F. Pearce, B. Baller, R. A. Rameika, T. Osiecki, M. J. Murtagh, B. Rebel, V. Verebryusov, V. A. Ryabov, Randall White, A. Sousa, Francisco Yumiceva, G.D. Barr, V. Makeev, Jorge G. Morfin, S. Boyd, D. Krakauer, R. L. Talaga, P. S. Miyagawa, William L. Barrett, P. Shanahan, B. Bock, E. Beall, S. Childress, Y. Ho, John Miller, C. James, Juergen Thomas, P. J. Litchfield, John Marshall, G. J. Alner, A. Mislivec, C. Arroyo, H. R. Gallagher, Carole C. Perry, M. Dierckxsens, Andrew Blake, R. P. Litchfield, T. C. Nicholls, Yu. A. Gornushkin, D. Rahman, T. Alexopoulos, D. A. Harris, T. H. Fields, J. Trevor, J. H. Cobb, K. Grzelak, N. Grossman, R. Hatcher, A. R. Erwin, V. J. Guarino, M. Bishai, S. Madani, A. D. Marino, J. Gogos, H. Zheng, G. A. Giurgiu, T. Durkin, D. R. Ward, A. C. Weber, M. Ignatenko, Ji-Yong Liu, S. Avvakumov, J. J. Grudzinski, D. M. DeMuth, N. Felt, E. Buckley-Geer, J. Oliver, Thomas R. Chase, G. J. Bock, J. K. de Jong, W. G. Yan, S. Murgia, R. Morse, R. Lee, B. Viren, C. P. Ward, D. Bhattacharya, John Derek Chapman, T. Bergfeld, M. Libkind, D. Pushka, J. Hartnell, P.D. Shield, A. J. Culling, D. Crane, S. Chernichenko, S. M S Kasahara, L. Wai, D. J. Auty, D. Cherdack, A. Lebedev, B. R. Becker, Carlos Escobar, W. Luebke, S. Kumaratunga, J. R. Meier, J. K. Nelson, M. Vakili, L. E. Price, R. K. Plunkett, G. Tinti, K. E. Arms, R. Trendler, Peter D. Barnes, Kevin Anderson, Caleb Smith, Ruben Saakyan, Sacha E Kopp, R. Gran, Paul Schoessow, D. E. Reyna, S.R. Mishra, P. Lucas, T. Yang, Warner A. Miller, J. M. Paley, C. Andreopoulos, E. Maher, M. Kostin, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, D. E. Jaffe, Harvey B Newman, J. L. Thron, E. Falk Harris, C. D. Moore, L. Mualem, A. L. Read, A. A. Wehmann, P. Adamson, C. Bungau, M. Proga, T. M. Raufer, M. V. Frohne, R. Halsall, M. Ishitsuka, W. Smart, V.A. Onuchin, G. M. Irwin, G. J. Feldman, J. McDonald, A. Pla-Dalmau, D. Drakoulakos, A. Byon-Wagner, R. H. Milburn, Reinhard Schwienhorst, W. A. Mann, R. J. Nichol, J. Boehm, Q. K. Wu, R. C. Webb, P. Gouffon, J. A. Thompson, Alec Habig, A. Belias, M. A. Barker, P. Schreiner, J. Urheim, V. Paolone, C. R. Bower, V. K. Semenov, J. A. Musser, A. De Santo, P. Vahle, C. White, D. J. Boehnlein, C. Laughton, M. Kordosky, Ž Pavlović, D. Bogert, R. Pittam, C. Nelson, A. Marchionni, I. Trostin, Alexander Terekhov, C. Rosenfeld, V. A. Tsarev, D. Indurthy, N. Pearson, B. C. Barish, H. J. Kang, Hyun-Chul Kim, G. Drake, A. M. McGowan, K. Ruddick, D. A. Jensen, M. S. Kim, A. S. Ladran, K. Vaziri, E. Tetteh-Lartey, R. Ducar, M. D. Messier, Philip Harris, J. C. Yun, J. D. Cossairt, W.W.M. Allison, R. Ospanov, P. N. Smith, P. Sullivan, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Stanley G. Wojcicki, J. Hylen, R. H. Bernstein, A. Para, M. C. Goodman, M. V. Diwan, J. Kilmer, D. A. Petyt, H. Ping, S. K. Kotelnikov, J. Schneps, R. Andrews, R. Zwaska, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), MINOS, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Q1, 01 natural sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Muon neutrino, Fermilab, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, QC, Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, MINOS, 14.60.Lm, 14.60.Pq, 29.27.-a, 29.30.-h, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Lepton
Abstract: This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon neutrino interactions are compared in two detectors located along the beam axis at distances of 1 km and 735 km. With 1.27 x 10^{20} 120 GeV protons incident on the NuMI target, 215 events with energies below 30 GeV are observed at the Far Detector, compared to an expectation of 336 \pm 14.4 events. The data are consistent with muon neutrino disappearance via oscillation with |\Delta m^2_{23}| = 2.74^{+0.44}_{-0.26} x 10^{-3} eV^2/c^4 and sin^2(2\theta_{23}) > 0.87 (at 60% C.L.)., Comment: To be submitted to PRL. 6 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2006
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48. THE MINOS EXPERIMENT

Author: G. F. Pearce
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino detector, MINOS, Solar neutrino, Measurements of neutrino speed, Solar neutrino problem, Neutrino oscillation
Published: 2005
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49. Measurement of theL/Edistributions of atmosphericνin Soudan 2 and their interpretation as neutrino oscillations

Author: M. C. Sanchez, E. A. Peterson, B. Speakman, T. H. Fields, David Petyt, W.W.M. Allison, D. M. DeMuth, J. H. Cobb, A. Sousa, Marvin L Marshak, T. Kafka, S. M S Kasahara, A. Napier, P. J. Litchfield, David Ja Cockerill, K. Ruddick, J. L. Thron, P. M. Border, G. F. Pearce, T. Joffe-Minor, H. R. Gallagher, J. K. Nelson, Warner A. Miller, J. Schneps, W. P. Oliver, G. J. Alner, N. West, D. S. Ayres, William L. Barrett, W. A. Mann, M. C. Goodman, L. Mualem, R. H. Milburn, and H. Courant
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, Maximum likelihood analysis, 01 natural sciences, Interpretation (model theory), Nuclear physics, Angular distribution, Distribution (mathematics), 0103 physical sciences, Statistical analysis, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: A deficit of atmospheric ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ events, consistent with the hypothesis of neutrino oscillations, is observed in the 5.90 kiloton-year fiducial exposure of the Soudan 2 detector. An unbinned maximum likelihood analysis of the neutrino $L/E$ distribution has been carried out using the Feldman-Cousins prescription. The probability of the no oscillation hypothesis is $5.8\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}4}.$ The 90% confidence allowed region in the ${\mathrm{sin}}^{2}2\ensuremath{\theta},\ensuremath{\Delta}{m}^{2}$ plane is presented. The region includes the 90% confidence allowed region of the Super-K experiment.
Published: 2003
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50. THE CALIBRATION OF THE MINOS DETECTORS

Author: K. Lang, R. Saakyan, T. Durkin, M. Kordosky, R. Lee, John Oliver, Britt Anderson, N. Felt, P. S. Miyagawa, G. F. Pearce, G. Crone, P. Sullivan, L. Jenner, Stanley G. Wojcicki, E. Falk, D. Attree, T. Nicholls, B. Rebel, Marvin L Marshak, David Petyt, Philip Harris, P. Vahle, P. Adamson, M. Proga, Robert C. Nichol, Np Longley, J. A. Musser, J. C. Thomas, A. Belias, Alexandre Lebedev, C. Smith, R. Morse, M. A. Barker, J. Alner, D. G. Michael, and A. C. Weber
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Neutrino detector, MINOS, Measurements of neutrino speed, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: R. NICHOL~*, P. AD AM SON^, J. ALNER~, B. ANDERSON~, D. AT TREE^, M. BARKER', A. BELIAS~, G. CRONE^, T. DURKIN~, N. FELT^, E. FALK~, P. HARRIS^, L. JENNER~, M. KORDOSKY~, K. L A N G ~ , A. LEBEDEV~, R. LEE^, N. LONGLEY~, M. MARSHAK~, P. MIYAGAWA', D. MICHAELZ, R. MORSE~, J. MUSSER~, T. NICHOLLS~, J. OLIVER~, G. PEARCE~, D. PETYT~, M. P R O G A ~ , B. REBEL^, R. SAAKYAN~, c . SMITH^, P. SULLIVAN', J. THOMASa, P. VAHLEf A. WEBER', S. WOJCICKIk a University College London, London W C l E 6BT, UK 'E-mail: rjnOhep.ucl.ac.uk bRutherford Appleton Lab, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 OQX, UK coxford University, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 021 38, USA University of Sussex, Palmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK f University of Texas at Austin, Austin T X 78712, USA g Macalester College, St. Paul MN 55105, USA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 3 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Published: 2003
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