Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D thesis by Kyoto University’s Physics Department in 2015
- Presents the world’s most precise measurements of neutrino interaction and neutrino oscillation in the T2K experiment
- Describes every process of the neutrino interaction measurements from the detector design to the physics analysis
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is based on the author's work in the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, in which neutrinos are generated by a proton beam and are detected by near and far neutrino detectors. In order to achieve the precise measurement of the neutrino oscillation, an accurate understanding of the neutrino beam and the neutrino interaction is essential. Thus, the author measured the neutrino beam properties and the neutrino interaction cross sections using a near neutrino detector called INGRID and promoted a better understanding of them. Then, the author performed a neutrino oscillation analysis using the neutrino beam and neutrino interaction models verified by the INGRID measurements. As a result, some values of the neutrino CP phase are disfavored at the 90% confidence level. If the measurement precision is further improved, we may be able to discover the finite CP phase which involves the CP violation. Thus, this result is an important step towards the discovery of CP violation in the lepton sector, which may be the key to understanding the origin of the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr.Tatsuya Kikawa
Physics Department, Kyoto University
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measurement of Neutrino Interactions and Three Flavor Neutrino Oscillations in the T2K Experiment
Authors: Tatsuya Kikawa
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-715-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-714-7Published: 30 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1298-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-715-4Published: 18 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 264
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation