Predicting the T2K Neutrino Flux and Measuring Oscillation Parameters

Tomislav Vladisavljevic (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 199 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-51173-9 (ISBN)

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This thesis reports the calculation of neutrino production for the T2K experiment; the most precise a priori estimate of neutrino production that has been achieved for any accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment to date. The production of intense neutrino beams at accelerator facilities requires exceptional understanding of chains of particle interactions initiated within extended targets. In this thesis, the calculation of neutrino production for T2K has been improved by using measurements of particle production from a T2K replica target, taken by the NA61/SHINE experiment. This enabled the reduction of the neutrino production uncertainty to the level of 5%, which will have a significant impact on neutrino oscillation and interaction measurements by T2K in the coming years. In addition to presenting the revised flux calculation methodology in an accessible format, this thesis also reports a joint T2K measurement ofmuon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance, and the accompanying electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance, with the updated beam constraint.

Tomislav Vladisavljevic is a postdoctoral researcher at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. Tomislav completed both his undergraduate degree and DPhil at the University of Oxford. He was also the inagural recepient of the Kavli IPMU Oxford DPhil Fellowship, and spent two years of his doctoral degree working at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, in Japan.

Brief introduction.- Theory.- The T2K experiment.- The NA61 Experiment.- The T2K Flux Calculation Tuned to Thin Target Data.- The T2K Flux Calculation Tuned To Replica-Target Data.- Bayesian Statistics and The Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Neutrino Oscillation Analyses.- Joint ni+ni¯ T2K Oscillation Analysis With the Reactor Constraint and Replica-Tuned Flux Inputs.- Conclusions and Future Prospects.- Appendices.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 199 p. 199 illus., 88 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	Accelerator Based Neutrino Beam • Markov Chain Monte Carlo • Neutrino Beam • Neutrino Flux • Neutrino Oscillations • Neutrino Production • Outstanding PhD Thesis • Statistical Methods in Neutrino Physics • T2K experiment • T2K Flux • T2K Oscillation Analysis
ISBN-10	3-030-51173-1 / 3030511731
ISBN-13	978-3-030-51173-9 / 9783030511739
Zustand	Neuware