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Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280. / Southwell, Luke.
Lancaster University, 2016. 152 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Southwell, L 2016, 'Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280', PhD, Lancaster University.

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Southwell, L. (2016). Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280. [Doctoral Thesis, Lancaster University]. Lancaster University.

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Southwell L. Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280. Lancaster University, 2016. 152 p.

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Southwell, Luke. / Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280. Lancaster University, 2016. 152 p.

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abstract = "The contamination from ν{\= }e in the T2K antineutrino beam is predicted to be approximately 1% and needs to be evaluated in order to constrain the systematic uncertainties in a T2K antineutrino oscillation measurement. In this thesis we present a ν{\= }e charged-current selection with which we test the Monte Carlo predic- tion using T2K data. To select ν{\= }e charged-current events, the tracker region and electromagnetic calorimeters of the T2K off-axis near detector are used.The selected sample has a ν{\= }e purity of (41.9±2.4)% and an efficiency of (27.1± 1.7)%. The data to Monte Carlo ratio for ν{\= }e charged-current inclusive interactions is 1.07 ± 0.16(stat.) ± 0.13(syst.).",
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