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T1 - Upper bound on neutrino mass based on T2K neutrino timing measurements
AU - Nowak, Jaroslaw Andrzej
AU - Kormos, Laura Lee
AU - O'Keeffe, Helen Mary
AU - Finch, Alexander John
AU - Ratoff, Peter Neil
AU - T2K Collaboration
AU - Dealtry, Thomas James
N1 - © 2016 American Physical Society
PY - 2016/1/27
Y1 - 2016/1/27
N2 - The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) long-baseline neutrino experiment consists of a muon neutrino beam, produced at the J-PARC accelerator, a near detector complex and a large 295km distant far detector. The present work utilizes the T2K event timing measurements at the near and far detectors to study neutrino time of flight as function of derived neutrino energy. Under the assumption of a relativistic relation between energy and time of flight, constraints on the neutrino rest mass can be derived. The sub-GeV neutrino beam in conjunction with timing precision of order tens of ns provide sensitivity to neutrino mass in the few MeV/$c^2$ range. We study the distribution of relative arrival times of muon and electron neutrino candidate events at the T2K far detector as a function of neutrino energy. The 90% C.L. upper limit on the mixture of neutrino mass eigenstates represented in the data sample is found to be m$_{\nu}^2
AB - The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) long-baseline neutrino experiment consists of a muon neutrino beam, produced at the J-PARC accelerator, a near detector complex and a large 295km distant far detector. The present work utilizes the T2K event timing measurements at the near and far detectors to study neutrino time of flight as function of derived neutrino energy. Under the assumption of a relativistic relation between energy and time of flight, constraints on the neutrino rest mass can be derived. The sub-GeV neutrino beam in conjunction with timing precision of order tens of ns provide sensitivity to neutrino mass in the few MeV/$c^2$ range. We study the distribution of relative arrival times of muon and electron neutrino candidate events at the T2K far detector as a function of neutrino energy. The 90% C.L. upper limit on the mixture of neutrino mass eigenstates represented in the data sample is found to be m$_{\nu}^2
KW - hep-ex
KW - hep-ph
KW - nucl-ex
KW - physics.ins-det
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.012006
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.012006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 93
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 1
M1 - 012006
ER -