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  • PhysRevLett.112.181801

    Rights statement: © 2014 American Physical Society

    Final published version, 336 KB, PDF document

  • PhysRevLett.112.181801

    Rights statement: © 2014 American Physical Society

    Final published version, 336 KB, PDF document

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Precise Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Parameter θ_{23} from Muon Neutrino Disappearance in an Off-axis Beam

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Article number181801
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>8/05/2014
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number18
Volume112
Number of pages8
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

New data from the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment produce the most precise measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter theta_{23}. Using an off-axis neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV and a data set corresponding to 6.57 x 10^{20} protons on target, T2K has fit the energy-dependent nu_mu oscillation probability to determine oscillation parameters. Marginalizing over the values of other oscillation parameters yields sin^2 (theta_{23}) = 0.514 +0.055/-0.056 (0.511 +- 0.055), assuming normal (inverted) mass hierarchy. The best-fit mass-squared splitting for normal hierarchy is Delta m^2_{32} = (2.51 +- 0.10) x 10^{-3} eV^2/c^4 (inverted hierarchy: Delta m^2_{13} = (2.48 +- 0.10) x 10^{-3} eV^2/c^4). Adding a model of multinucleon interactions that affect neutrino energy reconstruction is found to produce only small biases in neutrino oscillation parameter extraction at current levels of statistical uncertainty.

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© 2014 American Physical Society 8 pages, 4 figures. Final version as published in PRL, with very minor changes from initial version in response to referee comments