| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76705 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | T2K (Tokai to Kamiokande) is a long baseline neutrino experiment located in Japan. It uses a 30 GeV proton beam at the J-PARC accelerator in Tokai to produce an intense off-axis muon neutrino beam that travels 295 km through the Earth to Super-Kamiokande. One of its primary goals is to measure neutrino oscillation parameters by directly detecting $\nu_e$ at Super-Kamiokande that have oscillated from the $\nu_{\mu}$ beam. The measurement of $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{e}$ oscillations are of a particular interest because this mode is sensitive to both mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ and CP phase $\delta_{CP}$ of the PMNS matrix. Precise measurement of $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{e}$ allows us to explore the possibility of CP violation in the lepton sector. This dissertation will describe the recent 2013 $\nu_e$ appearance oscillation analysis using the reconstructed neutrino energy spectrum by means of a maximum likelihood fit. The data used for this analysis corresponds to $6.57\times10^{20}$ POT. A total of 28 $\nu_e$ candidate events were observed, corresponding to a 7.2 $\sigma$ significance of $\nu_e$ appearance by non-zero $\theta_{13}$. These results are then combined with the world average value of $\theta_{13}$ from reactor experiments and some values of $\delta_{CP}$ are disfavored at the 90\% CL. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:51:01Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Calder, Alan | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Jung, Chang K | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Tsybychev, Dmitri | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Viren, Brett. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Hignight, Joshua Michael | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:51:01Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:51:01Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Physics. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 154 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76705 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2014-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | neutrino | |
| dcterms.subject | Particle physics | |
| dcterms.title | Observation of $\nu_e$ appearance from an off-axis $\nu_{\mu}$ beam utilizing the neutrino energy spectrum | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
