Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance in a Long-Baseline Muon Antineutrino Beam.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 Apr 2020
24 Apr 2020
Historique:
revised:
26
02
2020
received:
19
11
2019
accepted:
25
03
2020
entrez:
9
5
2020
pubmed:
10
5
2020
medline:
10
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Electron antineutrino appearance is measured by the T2K experiment in an accelerator-produced antineutrino beam, using additional neutrino beam operation to constrain parameters of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) mixing matrix. T2K observes 15 candidate electron antineutrino events with a background expectation of 9.3 events. Including information from the kinematic distribution of observed events, the hypothesis of no electron antineutrino appearance is disfavored with a significance of 2.40σ and no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions is found. A complementary analysis that introduces an additional free parameter which allows non-PMNS values of electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance also finds no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32383902
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161802
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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