Speaker
Mr
Damon Hansen
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
T2K is an off-axis, long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure numu to nue transition probabilities and their associated oscillation parameters. The detection apparatus consists of a suite of near detectors 280 m from the beam target (collectively referred to as ND280), and the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector 295 km away. The Pi-0 Detector (P0D) is a component of ND280 designed to measure the production of NC pi-0's on water to constrain backgrounds at the far detector. While not optimized for lepton tracking and identification, it can still provide a useful sample of CC interaction events, including events at energies near the peak beam energy (~600 MeV).
This talk will outline a method to use the P0D and surrounding electromagnetic calorimeters to identify these low-energy (>800 MeV) numu CCQE interactions within the P0D and to accurately measure the pertinent final state kinematics. I will also discuss how this measurement can supplement existing T2K analyses by providing a significant increase in both the statistics and the phase space accessible to ND280.
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Primary author
Mr
Damon Hansen
(University of Pittsburgh)
Co-author
Dr
Vittorio Paolone
(University of Pittsburgh)
