Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector

T2K Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.092003

Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector

T2K Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)

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The T2K experiment has reported the first observation of the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam. The main and irreducible background to the appearance signal comes from the presence in the neutrino beam of a small intrinsic component of electron neutrinos originating from muon and kaon decays. In T2K, this component is expected to represent 1.2% of the total neutrino flux. A measurement of this component using the near detector (ND280), located 280 m from the target, is presented. The charged current interactions of electron neutrinos are selected by combining the particle identification capabilities of both the time projection chambers and electromagnetic calorimeters of ND280. The measured ratio between the observed electron neutrino beam component and the prediction is 1.01±0.10 providing a direct confirmation of the neutrino fluxes and neutrino cross section modeling used for T2K neutrino oscillation analyses. Electron neutrinos coming from muons and kaons decay are also separately measured, resulting in a ratio with respect to the prediction of 0.68±0.30 and 1.10±0.14, respectively.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	092003
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	89
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.092003
State	Published - May 5 2014

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Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector

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