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T2K

The T2K experiment fires a beam of muon-neutrinos from Tokai on Japan's east coast, 300km accross the country to a detector at Kamioka. It hopes to investigate the phenomenon of "neutrino oscillations" by looking for "muon neutrinos" oscillating into "electron neutrinos". Read the public overview for a description of the experiment and an insight into the physics behind it.


ND280 detector Neutrino oscillations are one of the frontiers of current particle physics. The primary goal of T2K is a measurment of θ13 through νe appearance analysis, in addition to improving current values for Δm223 and θ23 from νμ disappearance. In doing this, T2K will also make an important contribution to current world knowledge of neutrino-nucleon cross-sections. A more complete description of the T2K experiment and its physics goals can be found in the scientific overview.


Optical fibres There are 62 Institutes across 12 different countries contributing to the T2K experiment. Within this broad collaboration Warwick has made some important and significant contributions towards construction, quality assurance, callibration hardware and software analysis, further details of which can be found on the work at warwick page.




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T2K group


Academics

Dr Gary Barker Dr Steve Boyd


Research Assistants

David Hadley Dr Phillip Litchfield
(Joint with Kyoto University)
Dr Ben Morgan


PhD Students

Stephen Dennis Andrew Furmanski Callum Lister
Daniel Scully
Leigh Whitehead


Former Members

Dr Antony Carver
Dr Martin Haigh

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