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Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Dr Kirsty Duffy

Associate Professor

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • Accelerator Neutrinos
kirsty.duffy@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment including a new additional sample of nu(e) interactions at the far detector

Physical Review D American Physical Society 96:9 (2017) 092006

Authors:

K Abe, J Amey, C Andreopoulos, Giles Barr, David Coplowe, Stephen Dolan, Xianguo Lu, Raj Shah, Tomislav Vladisavljevic, David L Wark, Alfons JG Weber

Abstract:

The T2K experiment reports an updated analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in appearance and disappearance channels. Asample of electron neutrino candidates at Super-Kamiokande in which a pion decay has been tagged is added to the four single-ring samples used in previous T2K oscillation analyses. Through combined analyses of these five samples, simultaneous measurements of four oscillation parameters, |Δm2/32|, sin2 θ23, sin2 θ13, and δCP and of the mass ordering are made. A set of studies of simulated data indicates that the sensitivity to the oscillation parameters is not limited by neutrino interaction model uncertainty. Multiple oscillation analyses are performed, and frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of the oscillation parameters with and without the inclusion of reactor constraints on sin2 θ13.When combined with reactor measurements, the hypothesis of CP conservation (δCP = 0 or π) is excluded at 90% confidence level. The 90% confidence region for δCP is [−2.95;−0.44] ([−1.47;−1.27]) for normal (inverted) ordering. The central values and 68% confidence intervals for the other oscillation parameters for normal (inverted) ordering are Δm2/32 = 2.54 ± 0.08(2.51 ± 0.08) × 10^−3 eV^2/c^4 and sin2θ23 = 0.55+0.05/−0.09 (0.55+0.05/−0.08 ), compatible with maximal mixing. In the Bayesian analysis, the data weakly prefer normal ordering (Bayes factor 3.7) and the upper octant for sin2 θ23 (Bayes factor 2.4).

Measurement of (nu)over-bar(mu) and nu(mu) charged current inclusive cross sections and their ratio with the T2K off-axis near detector

Physical Review D American Physical Society 96:5 (2017) 052001

Authors:

K Abe, J Amey, C Andreopoulos, Giles D Barr, David Coplowe, Stephen Dolan, Xianguo Lu, Raj Shah, Tomislav Vladisavljevic, David L Wark, Alfons JG Weber

Abstract:

We report a measurement of cross section σ(νμ+nucleus→μ-+X) and the first measurements of the cross section σ(ν-μ+nucleus→μ++X) and their ratio R(σ(ν-)σ(ν)) at (anti) neutrino energies below 1.5 GeV. We determine the single momentum bin cross section measurements, averaged over the T2K ν-/ν-flux, for the detector target material (mainly carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and copper) with phase space restricted laboratory frame kinematics of θμ < 32° and pμ > 500 MeV/c. The results are σ(ν-)=(0.900±0.029(stat)±0.088(syst))×10-39 and σ(ν)=(2.41±0.022(stat)±0.231(syst))×10-39 in units of cm2/nucleon and R(σ(ν-)σ(ν))=0.373±0.012(stat)±0.015(syst).

First oscillation analysis using neutrino and antineutrino data at T2K

Journal of Physics Conference Series IOP Publishing 888:1 (2017) 012216

Updated T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 1.5 × 10^21 protons on target

Physical Review D American Physical Society 96:1 (2017) 011102

Authors:

K Abe, J Amey, C Andreopoulos, Giles D Barr, David Coplowe, Stephen Dolan, Xianguo Lu, Raj Shah, Tomislav Vladisavljevic, David L Wark, Alfons JG Weber

Abstract:

We report measurements by the T2K experiment of the parameters θ23 and Δm322 governing the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos in the three-flavor neutrino oscillation model. Utilizing the ability of the experiment to run with either a mainly neutrino or a mainly antineutrino beam, the parameters are measured separately for neutrinos and antineutrinos. Using 7.482×1020 POT in neutrino running mode and 7.471×1020 POT in antineutrino mode, T2K obtained sin2(θ23)=0.51-0.07+0.08 and Δm322=2.53-0.13+0.15×10-3 eV2/c4 for neutrinos, and sin2(θ-23)=0.42-0.07+0.25 and Δm-232=2.55-0.27+0.33×10-3 eV2/c4 for antineutrinos (assuming normal mass ordering). No significant differences between the values of the parameters describing the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos were observed.

Search for Lorentz and violation using sidereal time dependence of neutrino flavor transitions over a short baseline

Physical Review D American Physical Society 95:11 (2017)

Authors:

K Abe, J Amey, C Andreopoulos, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, S Assylbekov, D Autiero, S Ban, FCT Barbato, M Barbi, GJ Barker, Giles Barr, C Barry, P Bartet-Friburg, M Batkiewicz, V Berardi, S Berkman, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, S Bordoni, SB Boyd, D Brailsford

Abstract:

A class of extensions of the Standard Model allows Lorentz and CPT violations, which can be identified by the observation of sidereal modulations in the neutrino interaction rate. A search for such modulations was performed using the T2K on-axis near detector. Two complementary methods were used in this study, both of which resulted in no evidence of a signal. Limits on associated Lorentz and CPT-violating terms from the Standard Model extension have been derived by taking into account their correlations in this model for the first time. These results imply such symmetry violations are suppressed by a factor of more than 1020 at the GeV scale.

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