Prof Morgan Wascko: Publications

Search for electron antineutrino appearance in a long-baseline muon antineutrino beam

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 124:16 (2020) 161802

Authors:

K Abe, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, S Berkman, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, DB Berguno, C Bronner, A Bubak, MB Avanzini, J Calcutt, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, J Coleman, G Collazuol

Abstract:

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.

Constraint on the matter-antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations

arXiv Cornell University (2020)

Authors:

M Jiang, S Johnson, P Jonsson, CK Jung, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, D Karlen, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, T Katori, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, RJ Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, K Yasutome, S Yen, N Yershov, ED Zimmerman

Abstract:

The current laws of physics do not explain the observed imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe. Sakharov proposed that an explanation would require the violation of CP symmetry between matter and antimatter. The only CP violation observed so far is in the weak interactions of quarks, and it is too small to explain the matter-antimatter imbalance of the universe. It has been shown that CP violation in the lepton sector could generate the matter-antimatter disparity through the process called leptogenesis. The quantum mixing of neutrinos, the neutral leptons in the Standard Model, provides a potential source of CP violation through a complex phase dCP, which may have consequences for theoretical models of leptogenesis. This CP violation can be measured in muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations and the corresponding antineutrino oscillations, which are experimentally accessible with accelerator-produced beams as established by the T2K experiment. Until now, the value of dCP has not been significantly constrained by neutrino oscillation experiments. Here the T2K collaboration reports a measurement that favors large enhancement of the neutrino oscillation probability, excluding values of dCP which result in a large enhancement of the observed anti-neutrino oscillation probability at three standard deviations (3 sigma). The 3 sigma confidence level interval for dCP, which is cyclic and repeats every 2pi, is [-3.41,-0.03] for the so-called normal mass ordering, and [-2.54,-0.32] for the inverted mass ordering. Our results show an indication of CP violation in the lepton sector. Herein we establish methods for sensitive searches for matter-antimatter asymmetry in neutrino oscillations using accelerator-produced neutrino beams. Future measurements with larger data samples will determine whether the leptonic CP violation is larger than the quark sector CP violation.

Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K

(2020)

Authors:

K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, A Dabrowska, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, SR Dennis, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, N Dokania, S Dolan, TA Doyle, O Drapier, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, AJ Finch, GA Fiorentini, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fujita, D Fukuda, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, M Gonin, A Gorin, M Guigue, DR Hadley, JT Haigh, P Hamacher-Baumann, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, M Jiang, P Jonsson, CK Jung, X Junjie, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, D Karlen, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, Y Kato, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, H Kim, S King, J Kisiel, A Knight, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, T Koga, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, N Kukita, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Lawe, M Licciardi, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, X Li, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, V Matveev, C Mauger, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, L Munteanu, S Murphy, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, K Nakamura, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, K Niewczas, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, P Novella, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O'Keeffe, L O'Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, SM Oser, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, A Pritchard, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, C Ruggles, A Rychter, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, A Shaikhiev, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, HA Tanaka, S Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, Z Vallari, D Vargas, G Vasseur, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, VV Volkov, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, S Zsoldos, A Zykova

Measurement of the charged-current electron (anti-)neutrino inclusive cross-sections at the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

(2020)

Authors:

K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, J Calcutt, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, A Dabrowska, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, PF Denner, SR Dennis, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, N Dokania, S Dolan, TA Doyle, O Drapier, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, P Fernandez, T Feusels, AJ Finch, GA Fiorentini, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fujita, D Fukuda, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, T Golan, M Gonin, A Gorin, M Guigue, DR Hadley, JT Haigh, P Hamacher-Baumann, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, T Hayashino, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, T Ishii, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, M Jiang, S Johnson, P Jonsson, CK Jung, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, D Karlen, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, Y Kato, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, H Kim, S King, J Kisiel, A Knight, A Knox, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, T Koga, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, N Kukita, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Laveder, M Lawe, M Licciardi, T Lindner, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, X Li, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, JF Martin, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, V Matveev, C Mauger, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, M McCarthy, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, J Morrison, Th A Mueller, L Munteanu, S Murphy, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, KG Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, C Nantais, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, K Niewczas, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, P Novella, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O'Keeffe, L O'Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, SM Oser, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, JL Palomino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, S Parsa, J Pasternak, P Paudyal, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, ES Pinzon Guerra, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, A Pritchard, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, E Reinherz-Aronis, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, C Ruggles, A Rychter, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, J Schwehr, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, R Shah, A Shaikhiev, F Shaker, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, K Skwarczynski, A Smirnov, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, J Steinmann, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, HA Tanaka, S Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, Z Vallari, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, VV Volkov, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, S Zsoldos, A Zykova

First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K

(2020)

Authors:

K Abe, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, J Calcutt, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, A Dabrowska, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, PF Denner, SR Dennis, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, N Dokania, S Dolan, TA Doyle, O Drapier, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, P Fernandez, T Feusels, AJ Finch, GA Fiorentini, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fujita, D Fukuda, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, T Golan, M Gonin, A Gorin, M Guigue, DR Hadley, JT Haigh, P Hamacher-Baumann, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, T Hayashino, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, T Ishii, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, M Jiang, S Johnson, P Jonsson, CK Jung, X Junjie, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, D Karlen, K Kasetti, Y Kataoka, T Katori, Y Kato, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, H Kim, S King, J Kisiel, A Knight, A Knox, T Kobayashi, L Koch, T Koga, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, N Kukita, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, M Laveder, M Lawe, M Licciardi, T Lindner, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, X Li, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, JF Martin, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, V Matveev, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, M McCarthy, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, J Morrison, Th A Mueller, L Munteanu, S Murphy, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, KG Nakamura, K Nakamura, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, C Nantais, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, K Niewczas, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, P Novella, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O'Keeffe, L O'Sullivan, T Odagawa, K Okumura, T Okusawa, SM Oser, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, JL Palomino, V Paolone, WC Parker, S Parsa, J Pasternak, P Paudyal, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, ES Pinzon Guerra, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, A Pritchard, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, E Reinherz-Aronis, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, C Ruggles, A Rychter, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, J Schwehr, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, R Shah, A Shaikhiev, F Shaker, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, A Smirnov, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, J Steinmann, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, HA Tanaka, S Tanaka, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, Z Vallari, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, VV Volkov, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, S Zsoldos, A Zykova

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